Richard D. Solomon's Blog on Mentoring Jewish Students and Teachers

Our hope is that this blog will become a forum in which people can exchange ideas on how to recruit, develop and retain exceptional Jewish educators through mentoring and e-mentoring students, teaching candidates, and teachers in our day and supplemental schools. The present focus of this blog is to empower Jewish teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, consultants, and staff developers to integrate web technology (i.e. web tools and apps) into their teaching and teacher training.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

List of additional web-based screen sharing or remote control desktop sharing tools

When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically tested best practices, and demonstrate how these best practices can be applied in the real (i.e. physical) and virtual (i.e. online) classroom for both teaching and teacher training. The combination of face to face instruction in a physical setting and online learning is called blended learning. In this section of the blog we will describe how the internet can serve as a supplemental resource for instruction and the mentoring of pre-service and in-service Jewish educators. In this post we will share a list of additional web-based screen sharing or remote control desktop sharing web tools.

What is remote control software?

Remote control software, also called screen sharing and desktop sharing software, is a type of software application that enables a person to control his or her computer or those of others from a distant (i.e. remote) location.

For what educational purposes can remote control software serve Judaic education and teacher training?

Enables the student, teacher, or trainer to access his/her computer from any location in the world
Enables the student, teacher or trainer to instruct another person about how to use his or computer
Can reduce time to learn a complex computer procedure
Can be used by the teacher or mentor to assess student or mentee learning
Can be used by the student or mentee to demonstrate learning
Serves as a vehicle to increase on-task student behavior
Can be a vehicle for teaching or training one or many students or mentees
Promotes collaborative learning, and collaborative coaching
Can be used as a vehicle for peer tutoring

Click on the links below and find a list or additional web-based tools for screen sharing and remote control desktop sharing:

On the next post we will begin examining a variety of web-based tools for instruction and staff development. The first set of tools we will discuss will be ones that facilitate brainstorming or mind mapping. In particular, in the next post we will define brainstorming and mind mapping.