Unit 5 : Collaborative tools (social media& cloud services)

E-tivity 5.1 [2 hours]

This e-tivity 5.1. is aimed at helping you to use the collaborative tools in your learning and everyday life. You will understand the benefits of collaborative tools and apply them in your everyday activities. This is a Turnitin Assignments that will be checked against plagiarism in our UR eLearning Platform. You need then to avoid copy and paste! Otherwise you can lose some marks.

Task:

After reading the Social media and eLearning OER available at Social media Click here
After reading Using Google Apps as an mLearning strategy OER available at Google Apps as an mLearning
Open and read Google Docs for Collaborative Tools:

Google docs
ICT as a Collaboration Tool: teacher training materials
After watching the YouTube video, follow the best way to use Google Documents to collaborate. It is available at

The best way to use google document

After watching the YouTube video Social Media Introduction Available at

social media
-Create a Gmail account for Google services
-Create a document using Google Docs
-Share the created document with group members and e-moderator
-Ask each members to contribute on it by providing inputs and comments.

To get started here for e-tivity 5.1 , click inside the box labelled "Reply" below to open a window for your message. When you are done, click the "Post Reply" button. Be sure to read through the messages from others. and you can appreciate or suggest what is need for improvement, try replying to their posts and watch for replies to your own

e-tivity 5.2 [2 hours]

This e-tivity 5.2. is aimed at helping you to clearly understand very well the concept cloud computing services and their use in learning or in their daily life. This is a Turnitin Assignments that will be checked against plagiarism in our UR eLearning Platform. You need them to avoid copy and paste! Otherwise you can lose some marks.
Task 
After reading the following OERs: Social media and eLearning, Grid e cloud computing, Grid cloud computing Publishing content in the cloud: Opportunities and Challenges available respectively at :

1.  Social media and eLearning

2. Grid e cloud computing  
3. Grid cloud computing and

4. Publishing content in the cloud

After watching the YouTube video Introduction to Cloud Based Collaborative Tools , MS OneDrive cloud storage tutorial, Beginner’s guide to OneDrive for windows, How to use DropBox Tutorial for beginners, Tutorial for Beginner in Google Drive Available:

1.  Google drive ,

2. Cloud computing services

3. One drive for windows

4. How to use dropbox

5. Google drives for dummies

-Use one of the following cloud software as services (OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox);

-Create a new account;
-Download/install them on your computer and add files to be synchronized;
-Synchronized your folders with the cloud services;
-Share data/files or grant access to your group members and e-moderator through the discussion board.
-Discuss with your group members your experience on how to work with cloud services.

E-tivity 5.3. [2 hours]

This e-tivity 5.3. is aimed at helping you to recap all skills acquired in the unit 5. You will create a YouTube channel where you will avail, share all the e-tivities you have done and share them with the members of the group and e-moderator.

Task :

After reading the OER Social media and eLearning available at OER media and elearning 
After watching the YouTube videos “What Equipment I use to create YouTubevideos”, “How to make YouTube channel introduction”, “ How to create a YouTube Channel “, “ What Equipment I use to create “ and “ How to make YouTube channel introduction “ respectively available at

1. 

2. 

-Create a YouTube channel,

-Upload all the work you did in the unit 5,

-Share that video on your channel so that members of your group can access it,
-Using collaborative tool, write an essay on the overall benefits of the tools covered in the unit 5 in general and in learning in particular, Share with your group members.
-Using collaborative tool, discuss how your favourite, collaborative tools can be applied in your daily life.

To get started here for e-tivity 5.2 , click inside the box labelled "Reply" below to open a window for your message. When you are done, click the "Post Reply" button. Be sure to read through the messages from others. and you can appreciate or suggest what is need for improvement, try replying to their posts and watch for replies to your own

To get started here for e-tivity 5.3 , click inside the box labelled "Reply" below to open a window for your message. When you are done, click the "Post Reply" button. Be sure to read through the messages from others. and you can appreciate or suggest what is need for improvement, try replying to their posts and watch for replies to your own