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This event took place on 22nd June 2007 at 10:00am (09:00 GMT)
Knowledge Media Institute, Berrill Building, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK7 6AA
Online learning has grown in very recent times from being a mainly text-based activity to one where real-time spoken communication has become a real possibility. In the recent past synchronous meetings implied text-based chat, but now we have tools like VOIP, Instant Messenger systems and virtual meeting space and classrooms, which allow real-time spoken communication, sometimes augmented by video. Text-based chat only reveals a partial picture of the interaction that is taking place and has generally in the past been analysed using discourse analysis.
In a complex real-time virtual meeting space like Breeze, which we have been exploring at the University of Manchester, there are a series of channels available at the same time, including text, voice and video. In addition, we can keep notes on screen as well has having the ability to show different digital media and annotate it. We can also record these events in real-time and look at them later. How do we then go about analysing what is going on in these environments? How do we build a picture of an event? What do we focus on and how? How do we present such data?
This talk will first present and examine examples of language education occurring in the Breeze virtual meeting space and consider what needs to be taken into account when we observe and write about these events as researchers. It will also consider what types of discourse and interaction is available for analysis and what impact the interplay between the different channels of communication has both on how practice is played out, how it is represented and whether it challenges our current understanding of discourse and interaction. |
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