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Blackboard + Elluminate + Wimba = Blackboard Collaborate (Breaking News) by Bill Brandon

LearningGuild

Blackboard Inc. announced late today that it is acquiring Elluminate and Wimba, leading providers of. Blackboard Collaborate, a standalone platform. synchronous and collaboration technology. The teams from the three companies will combine to form.

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Another Stake in Ground for Blackboard: Two New Investments in the Open-source E-learning Market

Janet Clarey

Blackboard also says it. To that end, Blackboard has launched a new business called Blackboard Education Open Source Services – a good thing, right? To that end, Blackboard has launched a new business called Blackboard Education Open Source Services – a good thing, right? Can you taste the irony? But…still. ?

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My Workflow with Synergy

Experiencing eLearning

When I liveblogged the TCC 2008 conference , I always had the Elluminate presentation up on my primary screen (my desktop computer) and my blog on my laptop. Synergy lets me easily switch focus back to the Elluminate screen to join the backchannel chat or answer a poll; you just move your mouse over to the other screen and type away.

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

2D synchronous learning (WebEx, Elluminate, etc.). Knowledge Sharing Spaces (SharePoint, Blackboard, Yahoo Groups). School has confused us into thinking learning is about information dumps, not “tuning the network&#. i-web = immernet = immersive internet. knowledge discovery, blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS). Virtual Worlds.

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A powerful virtual classroom: Adobe Connect 8

Janet Clarey

I’m always cognizant of what Ellen Wagner (formerly with Adobe) said while writing about web conferencing technologies around the time Blackboard bought Wimba and Elluminate and combined them to create Blackboard Collaborate (for edu-types, I’ll insert the ‘muwhahahaha’ just for you).

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

Webinar tools include Elluminate (now known as Blackboard Collaborate), WebEx and Adobe Connect all of which have similar screen topographies and perform similar functions, but all have an associated cost.

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Tools for Freelance Instructional Designers

OpenSesame

Blackboard. Elluminate , WebEx , Centra , LiveMeeting , Project Management. Sony Vegas Pro , Sorenson Squeeze , After Effects. Audacity , Levelator. Soundbooth. WordPress , Moodle , Drupal. Synchronous Communication. Skype , DimDim , Oovoo , Google Talk/Voice. OpenWorkbench , Evernote. Gantto , MSProject , LotusLive.