1. COMMUNICATION TASKS
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2. THE FIVE TYPES OF TASKS…
CONTENT
EXPLORATION
PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTION
TASKS
DATA
COLLECTION AND COMMUNICATION
ANALYSIS
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3. WHAT ARE COMMUNICATION TASKS?
• Communication Tasks
o Help students interact, collaborate, and connect with others
(could be parents, teachers, other students, experts etc.)
Key words: interact, collaborate, connect
o Allow the sharing and co-exploration of knowledge
• But, let’s go back to “communication”…
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4. WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
• Definition: Conveyance of information either one-
way or two-way with two or more partners
• Various Forms:
o Basic Communication Patterns
 One to one | One to many | Many to many
o Interaction
 Synchronous | Asynchronous
o Media
 Text | Audio | Images | Video | Animation
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5. TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
• Basic Communication Patterns
o One to one | One to many | Many to many
• What can be the examples of… ?
o One-to-one communication
o One-to-many communication
o Many-to-many communication
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6. TYPES OF INTERACTION
Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication:
• Synchronous Communication
o Definition?
o Example?
• Asynchronous Communication
o Definition?
o Example?
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7. TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION TASKS
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8. TEACHER COMMUNICATION TASKS - CATEGORIES
• We will be looking at three categories when
discussing tools for communication tasks this week
o Community Building Communication
 Students
 Parents
 Fellow teachers & Administrators
o Cooperative & Collaborative Learning
 Students – Students
 Teachers – Students
 Experts – Students
o Online Classes/Learning
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9. TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION TASKS
COMMUNITY BUILDING COMMUNICATION
• Students | Parents | Teachers • Scheduling
& Administrators
o Doodle
o Email o Famundo
o Facebook, Twitter
o Google Calendar
o Google Voice
o Wikis: Wikis in Plain English o When Is Good.net
o Blog: Lisa’s lingo, I love this
class
o Edmodo – View “What is
Edmodo”
o Teacher Website
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10. TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION TASKS
COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
• Written/ • Group space
Oral communication
o Edmodo
o Google Docs
o Google Groups
o Google Voice
o PBworks o Pbworks
o 21Classes o Wiggio
o Skype o Wikispaces
o Wikispaces
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11. TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION TASKS
COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
•Brainstorming • Whiteboarding
o Bubbl.us o Cacoo
o Gliffy o Cosketch
o Mindmeister o Scriblink
o Mind42 o Google Drawing
(Go to Google Docs
> Create New > Drawing)
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12. TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION TASKS
COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
• Multimedia sharing
o Delicious
o Diigo
o Twilddla
o Voice Thread
o Glogster
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13. TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION TASKS
ONLINE CLASSES/ONLINE LEARNING
• Video Conferencing/Screen Sharing
o Adobe Connect
o Skype
o Vyew
o Wiggio.com
o Anymeeting
• Which one should I use? (It depends on what types of
tasks would you like your students to complete.)
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14. COMPARING TOOLS FOR
COMMUNICATION TASKS
• That’s a lot of tools!
• How do we compare them? We will use a “function
comparison matrix” this week to see which tool is
best, when, and for what task.
• Example on next slide…
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15. FUNCTIONS COMPARISON
Adobe Dimdim Skype Wiggio
Screen sharing Yes Yes Yes for two Yes
Whiteboarding Yes Yes No Yes
Group Video Call 4 people No Up to 10 people Up to 10
recommended (Beta)
Group Audio Call 40 people 10 people (Free) Up to 25 people Up to 50
Up to 100
Price Not free Partly free Almost free Almost free
Additional features Poll, file sending, etc. Poll, file sending, etc. File sending, etc. Poll, calendar
sharing, polder
sharing
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