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**ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS**  The Internet has provided wonderful ways to publish your work, thoughts, insights, information, collaborations and creativity.  It also allows you to put yourself on the screen of others.  Video communications have become easy to use and in an age of multimedia it has become a standard for many “young” users worldwide.  YouTube and TeacherTube are excellent examples of sites that allow everyday users to publish their video work to a worldwide audience.  Programs such as Skype allow you to video conference one-on-one (peer to peer) with anyone worldwide.  Sites such as UStream TV allow you to become a video broadcaster to a worldwide audience, if you choose to do so.  Online communications can and will open up whole new horizons to the way you work and communicate with your colleagues and the world.
 * Lead Instructor -** 

For each of these services you will have to create a user account to finish the requirements for this topic. Be sure to write down your usernames and passwords!
 * ASSIGNMENT:**

[|Webpage Embedding.pdf] - you will use this for this module and the Web Album module and probably on your own webpages

3) [|TeacherTube] – create, publish and share a video project on the site - this can be a Photostory presentation that you have saved as a Windows Media file (.wmv). Post a link to the video on the class wiki AND embed the video on your personal blog.
 * VIDEO CONTENT POSTING**


 * NOTE: You will need a webcam to complete parts 1 and 2 of this assignment. Contact your class instructors if you have any questions**.

4) Contribute to the Features and Functions section of the Class Videos page

5) Respond to the Course [|Blog Post]

- Record / save your username and password in a location you will remember. - Email the Lead Instructor once you have completed a module/topic, so we can review your work. - Use the Discussion Tab above if you get stuck or have questions that an instructor or fellow student in this class can help you answer - we are all part of your Personal Learning Environment (PLE).
 * REMINDERS**

[|Cover It Live] [|MeBeam]
 * OTHER ONLINE COMMUNICATION WEBSITES/RESOURCES**

The ability to broadcast over the Internet is fast becoming the preferred mode of students (and teachers) of communicating with their peers. As people develop “networks” of colleagues not always do they have the luxury of meeting with them in a face-to-face environment. Those contacts may be in the next state, the next country or even the next continent. Likewise, as students reach out to publish their work their audience can and should be worldwide. Taking advantage of the resources that the Internet offers makes that process easy and seamless. They do not have to worry about the logistics of publishing to a wide audience but can concentrate on the quality of the work they are “putting out there”. Time and time again students say “Let us create!” and part of their definition of creation is publishing to their friends, family, teachers and the world.
 * CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS**