Kiribati Campus Visit

After facing problems in the morning, we were able to listen in on the ED318 tutorial session from 12-1pm. There are no students enrolled in this course from here but we though we'd listen in to see how the tutorial proper goes. Thanks to Dr. Sala Bakalevu for allowing us to listen in.
Suva, Lautoka, Labasa and Tuvalu Campuses were tuned in. Sala was conducting the tutorial from Lautoka Campus. Labasa campus's audio output was working so they were using the chat facility in Click to Meet. We were also out of audio output so resorted to the chat as well.
The features of the session were as follows:

• There was a ppt. presentation which was the basis of the session. Slide transition was okay.
• Students were given a significant amount of time to ask questions or provide comments. This occured in the beginning and basically throughout the session. Unfortunately, we lost connection including Lautoka I think after a Suva student was sharing his experiences about multi-class teaching when he was a teacher (1o years experience) in the Lau Group, Fiji.

We are starting to wonder whether it is really necessary to deliver such sessions through this system. Jenny is thinking that perhaps we can explore the use of Impatica ppt. notes placed on disk and used this in conjuction with chat or perhaps more appropriately the discussion forum. It is really pointless using this system when campuses cannot even use the audio part of the system.