Using Haiku, Yugma, &VYew For Effective Classrooms Rebecca Hunger Dr. Smirnova ED 5700 June 15, 2009

Two Teachers, Two Styles… Teacher A meets once a week to collaborate with her colleagues. She gives students their assignments daily, and posts helpful websites for reference on her teacher webpage, which students have access to. She gives students feedback when after she grades their work. Teacher B creates online lessons with articles, images, audio, and video. Assignments are posted online with due dates, and feedback is given immediately. There are discussion forums with question topics that students respond to in a blog-like manner. Which teacher do you think is more effective? Why?

Learning with Technology Raise your hand if you have ever used the Internet to organize, manage, and deliver course content, assignments, assessments, or give feedback to students. Haiku LMS (Learning Management System) Yugma VYew

Haiku LMS https://www.haikuls.com/ Content should be the main focus Teachers can create online lessons with articles, images, audio, and video for their class. Manage discussions, auto-grade assessments, and track scores through a grade book Simple to use with an attractive layout

Features of Haiku Assignments and Events Announcements and Inbox Virtual Dropbox Discussions, Journals, and Blogs Assessments Attendance and Grades Embed the Web Resource Library (Coming Soon!)

What do You Think? After listening to the descriptions of the features of Haiku, what do you think is the most beneficial feature that you would use? Feel free to share your thoughts with the mic!

Teacher Responses to Haiku… “Haiku LMS is so user friendly, I don’t know how anyone couldn’t love this online learning environment.” –Joanna Ray “Haiku makes it easier.”-Jenna Ream “Haiku LMS has given me the chance to achieve a new level of communication between me and my students.”-Andrea Calavaresi “Haiku LMS has revolutionized my teaching.” -Ann Hostetler

Yugma https://www.yugma.com/ "Yugma" is a Sanskrit word meaning "confluence, meeting or state of togetherness.“ Web conferencing tool Secure, easy to use, feature-rich

What can I use Yugma for? hosting webinars developing and presenting proposals product demonstrations and sales presentations conducting training programs holding team meetings and reviews facilitating study groups or personal tutoring sessions hosting virtual clubs or social events providing spontaneous collaboration by artists, writers, and designers.

Customers Love Yugma Because… Real-time collaboration with white board & annotation tools, mouse & keyboard sharing and instantly changing presenters. Schedule meetings and send invitations in advance. Record your webcast in order to share and playback at any time. Use the Shared File Space feature to distribute files securely. Optional Webinar features are now available to all Pro Users. Live Technical Support.

What’s the difference? After learning about Haiku and Yugma, what do you notice are the main differences between the two programs? Please share your thoughts!

VYew http://vyew.com/site/index2 A new and powerful platform for real-time and always on interaction between people and content. Review the past, work together in the present, and prepare for the future.

Why Use VYew? Share your desktop Give presentations, host webinars, or conduct team meetings. Leave content available for access over time. Upload, create, and collaborate on content with your team or customers. Create and upload course content for real-time and anytime collaborative learning.

Meet and Present conduct meetings in real time using a shared workspace, webcam, voice over IP (VoIP), free teleconferencing, text chat and desktop sharing invite participants to annotate and collaborate on content during the meeting Participants navigate the workspace independently to collaborate on different portions of the content. You can record the meeting for playback.

Review and Annotate always-on workspace that reviewers and content creators can access and annotate at their convenience Participants can see each other’s comments and arrive at a final version more easily and quickly than emailing their comments to the content owner.

Educate and Train upload course material for real-time presentations and then students at any grade level can meet online and collaborate together in real time or separately over time Instructors can access and comment on student work with the students or at their convenience Elementary School Creative Writing Assignment In this VyewBook students are asked to review a set of images, come up with a story, arrange the images in a way that best reflects their story and write their story based on their arrangement of the images.

Similarities Which two programs (Haiku, Yugma, or VYew) do you find to be the most similar in what they have to offer?

Which Would You Choose? Would you choose Haiku, Yugma, or VYew to use as your virtual classroom? Why?

References https://www.haikuls.com/ https://www.yugma.com/ http://vyew.com/site/index2

Questions and Comments Thank you!!  Do you have any questions?