• Voice Online – the Missing Link?
  Presentation at EDMEDIA, 2003 by Michael Coghlan, Aiden Yeh, and Dafne Gonzalez: http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/edmedia/mcsession.htm

and at

• Learning Technologies Conference, 2003 (Webheads Michael Coghlan, Anne Fox, and Jonathan Finkelstein from LearningTimes
  http://videolinq.tafe.net/learning2003/paperspdf/CoghlanLT2003paper.pdf
• Archive of presentation at Learning Technologies Conference:
  http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=274114 (LearningTimes membership required)

• An excellent article from the TLT Group (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) on why synchronous tools have a place in Distance Education:
  http://www.tltgroup.org/CommunityConnectedness/SynchTools.htm
• A day in the life of an online language educator. Webheads founder Vance Stevens writing about the life of Chinese webhead Yaodong:
  http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej23/int.html
• Distance Learning and Synchronous Interaction: http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1042

• Aiden Yeh’s Session - Listening and Conversation: http://www.geocities.com/aidenyeh/michaelc.html
• Anne Fox’s Streetlife project (intercultural communication): http://streetlife.homestead.com
• Buthaina Alothman’s students - oral presentations:
  http://alothman-b.tripod.com/present_162.htm

• Yahoo Messenger (free) - http://messenger.yahoo.com
  
• Wimba - http://wimba.com - for voice email, voice boards, and voice chat room
  
• Groove – http://groove.net- peer to peer tool

Virtual Classrooms:

• Talking Communities – http://talkingcommunities.com
  
• HorizonLive - http://horizonlive.com
  
• Elluminate - http://www.elluminate.com
  
  
• Software evaluation from Athabasca - http://cde.athabascau.ca/softeval/
  

• Check the resources section at In Synch Training:
  http://www.insynctraining.com/Insync_Home.html#Home
• List of available tools: http://thinkofit.com/webconf/realtime.htm
• Journal of Voice Events (2003) conducted as part of Michael Coghlan's study into online voice applications: http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/fll/blog.htm
• Comments on synchronous v asynchronous environments:
  http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/fll/synch_asynch.htm
• Join the Community of Voices hosted by Michael Coghlan at http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=123245 (LearningTimes membership required)
• LearningTimes – http://learningtimes.org; LearningTimes is an open community for education-minded people. It houses a range of tools for free use to educators.

URL of this page is http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/fll/vol_resources_b.htm