Judy's notes from this session.

Alissa's session focused on tools that one can use in Canvas for different types of communication (e.g., synchronous vs. asynchronous).

Her last slide was the bulk of her presentation and was created as a Popplet. One thing she noted about Popplets is that they are not very mobile friendly. However, that last slide was interesting because it organized the various communication devices in Canvas (e.g., Tegrity, Google docs, Chat, Discussions, Twitter, etc.) with respect to their purposes and uses. Click here to see her Popplet [NOTE to self...I could see using a Popplet for making concept maps in class.]

She had planned to do a group activity using Google docs, but we ran out of time. Here's the link. Maybe we might try to tackle this in one of our meetings this spring. What do you think?

A couple of other tidbits I picked up from this session:

It would be good to notify students about this complication of "Notifications" in Canvas: If they choose to be notified by text message, and they don't have an unlimited plan, they could incur quite a phone bill! I hadn't thought about that!
Twitter feeds can be embedded into a Canvas page. Perhaps Stephanie also mentioned this in our last SeLC session, and I missed it.
Conferences vs. Bb Collaborate (we call it Online Conferences in our menu)...which to use? Alissa reminded us that Collaborate recordings are kept indefinitely, but Conference recordings are only kept for 14 days.