Many thanks for all the gatherers of wisdom working on collaborating on tools and resources.
For perspective: Our Zoom Pre-Flight Checklist and Things to Think About
Core Tools
- Official "Learning Management Systems" (LMS) for grading, reporting, calendaring
- Moodle, Canvas, Edmodo, Blackboard...
- Audio/Video Synchronous
- Zoom: Free for up to 40 minutes and 3 people; Pro for $15/mo and larger buckets
- Can Livestream to Facebook Live and Facebook Teams from Pro and to YouTube from Zoom Webinar (another $40/mo for 50?)
- GoToMeeting
- Whereby (peer-to-peer)
- Google Hangout and Google Meet
- Skype for Business / now Microsoft Teams
- Facebook Live
- Twitch Channels
- Join.me (not a good free option)
- UberConference
- Zoho Meeting and Zoho Webinar
- Livestreaming -- with OBS, Streamlabs
- Descript - two-sided recording with auto-transcription and visual editing
- Zoom: Free for up to 40 minutes and 3 people; Pro for $15/mo and larger buckets
- Online Labs - http://onlinelabs.in/subjects from back in 2009 -- what's around now?
- Online Musical Rehearsal and Production --
- JamKazam App
- Tully App
- List of digital instruments from Robert Fink
Tools and Steps to Build Interaction
- Feedback
- Mentimeter - https://www.mentimeter.com/ - educational pricing $7-15/mo
- Kahoot - gamify - https://kahoot.com/schools/distance-learning/
- Whiteboards
- Available in some Videoconference tools, including Zoom
- Adding student roles of Searching, Creating Context, Creating Wiki conversations (from Howard Rheingold's work - http://peeragogy.github.io/realtime.html)
- PowerPoint/Keynote alternatives
- Mindmapping and unrolling the presentation and links
- Prezi to move across and zoom in (and greenscreen yourself so it can appear on top of your image)
- Audio environment additions
- "Pre-show music" via Spotify or other playlist -- set the tone for the meeting and conversation - let people come into the video space early to music and a graphic or whiteboard to sign in
- UberConference has funny conference play-in music by default
- Tones for shifting to next phase of a course - creating a routine or ritual
- "Pre-show music" via Spotify or other playlist -- set the tone for the meeting and conversation - let people come into the video space early to music and a graphic or whiteboard to sign in
- Student Pair/Shares and Co-Teaching each other
- Remote guest speakers (in their fuzzy slippers from home!) via Zoom or other platforms; or record via Zoom or other at other times so they can be asynchronous guests
- Group Annotation of the Web - https://web.hypothes.is/
- Shared bookmarking of resources - Diigo.com
Collaborative Space and Connection Options - larger list at Robin Good's ZEEF amazing alternatives of Online Collaboration Tools - https://online-collaboration-tools.zeef.com/robin.good
- Google Docs to co-write while using audio chat
- Trello - project management - dashboard for online space links - plus a thoughtful guide on how to work together remotely
- Slack - shared threaded collaboration and communication
- Edmodo (LMS) - with collaboration space (closed Sept. 22, 2022)
- Mighty Networks - social network spaces, including classes
Links to Master Lists
- "Remote Teaching Resources for Business Continuity" - a list of 225+ universities' plans and recommendations -managed by Daniel Stanford at DePaul at http://bit.ly/rtresourcelist - @dstanford on Twitter
- Stanford Teaching Recommendations at http://bit.ly/stanfordteachingdisruption
- Resources for Online Meetings, Classes, and Events at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NyrEU7n6IUl5rgGiflx_dK8CrdoB2bwyyl9XG-H7iw8/edit?usp=sharing
- School Closure Status (volunteer effort, behind a bit) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19wJZekxpewDQmApULkvZRBpBwcnd5gZlZF2SEU2WQD8/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true&pru=AAABcO8opfc*xTvI9jiwDm-3vMNKEaJLZQ#
Insightful Thought Leaders
- Howard Rheingold - www.openlearning.cc - see also Peeragogy Project, www.peeragogy.org and CI Collaboratory www.cicolab.org
- Rena Palloff
- Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom - https://www.amazon.com/Building-Online-Learning-Communities-Strategies-ebook/dp/B0032ZD0M0
- Collaborating Online: Learning Together in Community - https://www.amazon.com/Collaborating-Online-Learning-Together-Community/dp/0787976148
- Assessing the Online Learner - https://www.amazon.com/Assessing-Online-Learner-Strategies-Jossey-Bass-ebook/dp/B007H1TA74
- Chris Argyris - http://pds8.egloos.com/pds/200805/20/87/chris_argyris_learning.pdf
- Bryan Alexander (@BryanAlexander) - https://bryanalexander.org/
- Future of Education Observatory - http://futureofeducation.us/
- Future Trends Forum - https://bryanalexander.org/the-future-trends-forum/;
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanalexander
- His recent pieces about "futuring" and pandemics - https://bryanalexander.org/futures/coronavirus-and-the-world-how-futurists-have-been-working-on-this-kind-of-thing-for-years/
- Peter Block
- Community: The Structure of Belonging - https://www.amazon.com/Community-Structure-Belonging-Peter-Block/dp/1523095563 - "tackles the hysteric rise of isolation and fear in a digitally interconnected world"
- Donella Meadows
- Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Leverage_Points.pdf
- Great visuals - http://donellameadows.org/a-visual-approach-to-leverage-points/
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Coronavirus, Synchronous Failure, and the Global Phase-Shift - https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/coronavirus-synchronous-failure-and-the-global-phase-shift-3f00d4552940
Unique Thought Spaces
- Institute for the Future - Online Collaboration Series #1 - http://www.iftf.org/onlinecollaborationseries
- Nancy White's posts and online facilitators - https://fullcirc.com
- Current Work on leading meetings that matter - https://fullcirc.com/2020/03/07/moving-online-in-pandemic-preamble/
- Liberating Structures - http://www.liberatingstructures.com
- a community of Liberating Structures practitioners experimenting with how to use the tools virtually - Trello board (public) that offers how-tos for well-tested and for experimental structures: https://trello.com/b/oC3oBEvY/facilitation-toolbox -- Liberating Structures, Punctuations, Priming Activities, and Creating Transparency
- Ecocycle Planning - http://www.liberatingstructures.com/31-ecocycle-planning/
- Making space with TRIZ - what can I STOP doing? - http://www.liberatingstructures.com/6-making-space-with-triz/ plus template at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1s6TK0SSb6p84nwrDNa85qv8kCwb3tupQy-2D-oqDeyw/edit#slide=id.p
- EthicalEdTech.info -- directory of tools and use-cases for tools that are not looking to sell us solutions - check out their Meta Syllabus - https://ethicaledtech.info/wiki/Meta:Syllabus
- Governance Templates - http://communityrule.info
- Nuances of mediated interaction - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260366557_Applying_Technology_Enhanced_Interaction_Framework_to_Accessible_Mobile_Learning/figures?lo=1