6. Allow teachers and students to share
resources on their computers or to access
information located in other computers or
networks.
7. You should have a technical person on your
staff that will be able to help when these
difficulties arise.
need to understand how to set up an online
meeting effectively and how to communicate in
this environment.
9. The software assisted in creating authentic
(real world) assessment activity that involved
students interacting with peers and sharing
academic ideas in a virtual conference
environment.
10. Ruth Colvin Clark (2005), suggested:
The instructors may set up the initial classroom meeting in a face-to-face
environment in which they introduce students to the Web conferencing
software, and then conduct a Web conference soon thereafter for one
of the online sessions. For online classes, they may decide to conduct
monthly online meetings to keep students connected to each other and
remind them of upcoming assignments or simply to answer questions.
Students may want to set up virtual meeting rooms for small group
assignments, brainstorming, or just talking.
Findings . Benefits
11. Clark (2005) suggests some other strategies that can enhance Web
conferencing sessions. In general, online sessions should be limited to
about 60 to 90 minutes in length, as multiple virtual class sessions are
better than one long one. Between sessions, students could work on
projects that they post for review by other class members and the
instructor.
12. Web conferencing is an online instructional tool
that is becoming widely used in many teacher
preparation programs in special education. It can
provide the primary delivery format in an online
course, be used in distance education along with
videoconferencing and other technologies and
serve as a supplement to conventional on-campus
instruction.
.
13. Web Conferencing is offering a range of options for interactions
outside of class time, web conferencing can encourage students to
develop a higher degree of ownership, enabling them to direct
discourse of the class, to establish ongoing relationships with
instructors and beers, to make informative decisions together, and to
take greater responsibility for the learning process.
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2. http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ829138.pdf
3. http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED427691.pdf
4. An Evaluation of Web Conferencing in Online Teacher Preparation,
by:Dennis R. Knapczyk, PhD, Timothy J. Frey, & Wendy Wall-
Marencik.
