Tools
- Big Huge Labs: http://bighugelabs.com
- Voice Over PowerPoint: http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/powerpoint/CH063500681033.aspx Help/troubleshooting if you have trouble: http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppnarration.html
- BubbleJoy: http://www.bubblejoy.com/
- YouTube: http//www.youtube.com
- VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com
- Video Conferencing: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/Tools/conferencing.html
Learning Styles, Inventories...
- Jung Typology Test (similar to MBTI) http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
- Learning Styles Inventories http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/
- Gardner Multiple Intelligences: http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php#form
Some Research
Baker, C. (2010). The Impact of Instructor Immediacy and Presence for Online Student Affective Learning, Cognition, and Motivation. The Journal of Educators Online, Volume 7, Number 1, January 2010 http://www.thejeo.com/Archives/Volume7Number1/BakerPaper.pdfLam, W., Chua, A., Williams, J.B. & Lee, C. (2005). Virtual teams: Surviving or thriving? Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference. Brisbane, Australia.
Mandernach, Gonzales, Garrett (2006). An Examination of Online Instructor Presence via Threaded Discussion Participation. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2006 http://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no4/mandernach.htm
Palloff, Rena M., and Keith Pratt. Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom, San Francisco: Josey-Bass Publishers, 1999.