Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS
Learning Management Systems
Your Learning Management System (LMS) has more potential than you realize.
Thanks to the emergence of 2.0-level online applications such as Wikis, Etherpad, and more, innovative educators are creating limitless new learning opportunities and discovering ways to embed them within existing Virtual Learning Environments.
The best news is: these interactive eLearning tools are available to colleges and universities absolutely FREE.
Web 2.0 collaborative learning is all about interaction and sharing. Teaching at the 2.0 level can transform and reinvigorate your classes while unleashing student and faculty potential.
Presenter Barry Dahl introduces you to the best online tools to enhance and upgrade course delivery and demonstrates where to find the most powerful complimentary online applications and explains how to put them to work in your classes.
This 90-minute seminar covers:
- Which online systems to investigate and which to skip
- Level 2.0 ways to collaborate and share inside your LMS
- How to add web content with two button clicks
- Tools for creating and submitting multimedia homework assignments
- Integrating web tools with your Learning Management System
- Using student authoring tools for simultaneous writing
- Creating collaborative group research projects for online sharing
- “Poking holes” in your LMS to allow communication with the outside world
- Outcome examples for faculty tasks and student assignments
This demonstration is conducted using Desire2Learn, but the same principles apply to any other LMS, including Blackboard, Angel, Moodle, etc.
Who will benefit:
- Faculty
- Instructional designers
- Instructional technologists
- Distance education directors and administrators
Your presenter
Barry Dahl is the Vice President of Technology and Lake Superior Connect e-Campus at Lake Superior College in Duluth, MN. He served seventeen years as a faculty member in accounting before becoming the senior administrator in charge of online learning at LSC. Dahl also serves on the Board of Directors for the Instructional Technology Council, which provides services to over 400 member schools and holds the annual e-Learning conference at different sites around the U.S.

Recorded: 3/23/2010
Running Time: 90 minutes
Audio with PowerPoint
3 WAYS TO ORDER:
- Supplemental Materials
- PowerPoint Handouts
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