Edline - Who Knows?

I am currently working in Edline and am finding it hard to get support for small glitches or access issues. Is this common? Does anyone really know Edline? I was able to get help (visual instruction) from a co-worker who toyed with it as I did but "got it".

FORESEABLE BREAKDOWN IN COMMUNICATION
We are fortunate to have an assigned "contact" amongst our faculty for Edline assistance. Unfortunately, this person has just about the same schedule as the rest of us; causing me to assume any assistance will be on her spare time- responses will not be timely and physical/ hands-on attention will not be available (its just not possible).

INITIATIVE FOR THE GREATER GOOD
I have resigned to assign myself as the liason for my particular departement. We currently have 7 faculty in my department. I plan to read the manual front to back, develop the Edline gradebook for my class and demonstrate it as a model for my co-workers individually. In turn, we will meet our requirements of actually USING Edline and be better versed should our students need help navigating the software or faculty from other departments need assistance. The spread of knowledge is sure to follow. If anything I will volunteer to aid the assigned "contact" for Edline and provide technical demonstrations and larger meetings with all faculty.

Social Software

The social software that I have reviewed and used is Myspace.com. It allows users to Send messages via blog comments, email or instant message withing the software (i.e. you can see whether your friends are currently online while you are logged in and can begin a chat session). MySpace also has a music and video element that allows users to share personal or favorite videos and songs. The registration is free and it is widely used and highly popular.

A small setback is that there are no applications within the site available to allow for recording or some type of video or sound editing. You basically post what you've done. The advantage, as it relates to learning is that is is easy to use, it can be customized and it is free. Instructors/Teachers can create a blog using myspace and post an audio or video lecture and prompt students to comment within the blog by posting their own audio response. Chat meetings can be set up or teachers can post their times of availablity and have students check the class blog to see if the teacher is logged on should they need feedback or have questions. Or students can be directed to POST their questions in a specific blog initated with a subject.

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I used raptivity to create a quiz on perspective. It was surprisingly easy to use and I would definitely purchase it if I had a pressing need for it and the resources to afford it. I viewed the other interactivity examples and I see how useful it could be, not just for the online college instructor but for middle and high school teachers who have their individual class links on line for parents and students to access. A teacher could offer review of math terms or fun games to help students remember concepts, etc.

Raptivity appears to be quite useful.

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