This document summarizes a course on designing learning activities presented using Adobe Connect. It outlines that the course addressed challenges in focusing multi-tasking students, educators' assumptions about tool use, features of Adobe Connect for visual presentations and reusing recordings. It provided an example Adobe Connect session and contact information for the presenter.

1. CHECET course
Prof Dick Ng’ambi
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town
Presented at the CHECET course on 2 May 2012

2. Outline
• Challenge of designing learning activities to
focus today’s multi-tasking students
• Educator’s assumptions underlying choice of
tools
• Affordances of online conferencing tool –
Adobe Connect
• Using Adobe Connect for visual presentations
• Re-using recorded Adobe Connect meetings

3. Today’s multi-tasking
student. How do we
design learning to
properly focus these
students?

4. Assumptions
underpinning some
uses of tools

5. Adobe Connect affordances
Facilitator & One-to-
The different
participants in One mtg teaching
same room possibilities with
Adobe connect
Mixed mtg
Adobe Small
group mtg
Connect
Participants at Dispersed Adapted from: Andy
audience Benoit
a distance

6. http://meeting.uct.ac.za/checetdemo/
Adobe Connect Meeting Room
Ensure that you have installed
flash plugin before attempting to
run Adobe Comment. Use this
demo site to test out as a guest.

7. Learning from smaller chunks of
content – finding the appropriate
piece to match your puzzle

8. The image shared in Adobe Connect and concept explained to participants

9. Drawing tools to enhance explanation

10. I am yet to
find my
puzzle piece!

11. Example of Adobe Session
Recorded meeting: http://meeting.uct.ac.za/p89401296/

12. Salmon’s 5-Stage Model:
useful for online
teaching/moderation

13. Contact details:
Dick Ng’ambi
Centre for Educational Technology
Email: dick.ngambi@gmail.com