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Training starts for 2013

Moodle Journal

The idea that you are going to require staff to carryout major changes to their existing materials is always likely to induce an expected and to be frank understandable level of reticence, however by using Wimba Create , which will convert materials produced in MS Word into Scorm compliant packages, can pretty much neutralise that.

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New eLearning Projects Approved

Moodle Journal

One late request was from myself for the acquisition by the college of a licence for Wimba Create. We are currently in the process of generating an instance of Open Simulator for one and the iPad’s will be arriving soon for the other. For those of you out there who remember courseGenie, Create is the new incarnation.

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Are you ready Tin Can

Moodle Journal

And I would judge that you are still enthusiastic about scorm, and if you are regular to this blog then you will know that we make good use of Wimba Create for College generated content. The complexity of activities and LRS communication is greatly reduced (fewer API calls.) It only needs to be able to send the statement “I did this.”

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RSC Moodle Roundtable

Moodle Journal

I went along to an RSC Moodle Forum round table in London yesterday that posed the question ‘What makes for a good Moodle activity’. Without looking at my members list there were about 20 of us there, so it turned into a very sociable and informative event, most enjoyable.

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Complaint? Students Don't Hang Out in Virtual Worlds After Class

Kapp Notes

None of my students “hang out” in-world except for class activities, and my students rarely go into virtual worlds after the semester is over. The same is true of Adobe Connect, Horizon Wimba and other 2D classroom software. It seems that students find virtual worlds boring. So why do we expect it to happen in a virtual world?

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Wikis as Assignments

E-Learning Acupuncture

I attended a very useful online presentation last week by Mike Orey of the University of Georgia (via the Wimba Distinguished Lecture Series ).

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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

eLearning 24-7

As aforementioned one company called Wimba already has audio – voice capabilities within their social learning product, so that learners can say their comments on a discussion board and other learners can hear the voice comments rather than read them. Social learning takes on a whole new meaning. Converters.