online learning@ECU

Help and Support for Elluminate Live

There are a number of resources available from Elluminate. These are available as either pre-recorded Elluminate sessions or as documents that are downloadable from the site and include the following:

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Online Learning Tools Explained in Plain English

Want a clear explanation of blogs, wikis, rss or other online tools and technologies? Then have a look at these videos made by Common Craft.

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Directory of Learning Tools

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies website has a useful listing of tools for learning, split into two categories;

• Tools for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions and

• Tools for managing your own learning and productivity, and sharing resources.

Mindmeister: free online mind mapping tool

Mindmeister is a free online mind mapping tool that you can use to create, manage and share mind maps online. Groups can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other's changes as they happen.

Using Del.icio.us for social bookmarking (and using it in MyECU)

Del.icio.us is a free social bookmarking service that is designed to allow you to store and share links on the web, instead of inside your browser.

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Dimdim: free synchronous communication web tool

For anyone wanting to add some online synchronous communication to their units, this tool looks good and works well (there are a few glitches with safari but it's fine in firefox mac or pc).

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Free group chat tool and how to link to it in MyECU

Campfire is a free online service designed for effective online group communication.

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General Tip: Access Journal Articles via Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine that indexes the content of scholarly material published on the internet and in electronic books and journals.

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