{"id":162,"date":"2018-09-27T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onledtechy.wordpress.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2018-09-27T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:00:33","slug":"week-2-connecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/2018\/09\/27\/week-2-connecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: Connecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many exciting aspects for or me about starting a new <em>online<\/em> course is being introduced to new tools. Considering we are only in week 2 ONL has certainly got off to a flyer in this regard!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Zoom <\/a>proved an good alternative to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and Skype for group sessions (valuable for my discussions with non-Blackboard lecturers).<\/li>\n<li>Although I have experience with Google Hangouts, I was not familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/7083786?hl=en\"  rel=\"noopener\">Google Hangouts on Air<\/a>. Another possible alternative to those mentioned above.<\/li>\n<li>During my session Google Hangouts on Air sessions, I was shown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symbaloo.com\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Symbaloo<\/a>. This tool got my interest immediately as a tool for online portfolios. Unfortunately after some &#8216;playing&#8217; it might not offer exactly what I want from a work perspective, but it adds another option for managing collaborative work in the lecture room <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/wpcom-smileys\/twemoji\/2\/72x72\/1f642.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many exciting aspects for or me about starting a new online course is being introduced to new tools. Considering we are only in week 2 ONL has certainly got off to a flyer in this regard! Zoom proved an good alternative to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and Skype for group sessions (valuable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}