LIVE AND ONLINE: Tips, Techniques, and Ready–to–Use Activities for the Virtual Classroom - Hardcover

?This text is truly a guide for designing and facilitating online learning. It presents the ?how tos? for instructors and learners with practical application for ensuring a learner and learning-centered online environment.?--Judith A. Converso, Ph.D., instructional systems designer and online instructor, Florida State University, Nova Southeastern University ?Detailed, creative, and proven techniques for teaching live online. Jennifer Hofmann has created a superb guidebook for every level of instructor regardless of your chosen synchronous platform.?--John Walber, CEO, LearningTimes, LLC ?Teachers, trainers, professors, and designers?anyone planning to teach at a distance?will find this practical and comprehensive book a necessary companion as they venture into the virtual classroom.?--Michael Simonson, editor of Quarterly Review of Distance Education "Jennifer Hoffman does it again! She has the unique combination of practical wisdom and clear writing skills. As I was moving from face-to-face clasroom to the virtual ones, her first book provided a wonderful roadmap. Now, her second book enables me to travel through more exciting landscape and savor wonderful landscapes."-- Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, Resident Mad Scientist, Workshops by Thiagi and author of Design Your Own Games and Activities

Live and Online! offers the key to designing effective interactions for the synchronous classroom. This ensures that participants have ample opportunity to collaborate and interact, which in turn helps them to successfully learn online. Author Jennifer Hofmann explains the use of powerful synchronous tools-Whiteboard, Chat, Breakout Room, Application Sharing, and Synchronized Web Browsing-provides sample exercises for each tool, and offers advice on how each tool fits into the instructional landscape. At the end of each exercise there is space provided for notes and suggestions on how to customize the interaction for specific projects. The companion CD-ROM contains sample graphics, leader guide pages that support the exercises, and templates for creating leader and participant materials and interactive plans.