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Synchronous Software Scavenger Hunts

Experiencing eLearning

Application training via a synchronous tool like WebEx, Adobe Connect, or Elluminate too often ends up with passive learners. I’m guilty of this myself too; I’ve done some boring synchronous training that didn’t offer any opportunity to practice skills. Scavenger Hunt to assess and provide a challenge.

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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

These are my live blogged notes from Karen Hyder’s webinar, Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions from the Training Magazine Network. Synchronous time is “premium time&# : if you just want “chalk & talk,&# just record it and let people watch on their own time. Image Credit : elluminate by shareski.

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

LearningGuild

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

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TCC08: Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible

Experiencing eLearning

Issue isn’t just whether students have access, but whether the communication is actually as effective as that provided to others. Online course with asynchronous (LMS) & synchronous (Web conferencing). Hearing and speaking during synchronous meetings. Provide the script for narrated presentations & podcasts.

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LearnTrends: Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations

Experiencing eLearning

GPS provides incremental instruction. Tried to show video of Meet Charlotte, but video doesn’t work well over Elluminate. This is not a synchronous platform–experts can use a webcam and easily record and upload content. Aspects of learning. Experience. Conversation. Reflection. Difference between a map & GPS.

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The power of Voice in online classrooms

E-Learning Acupuncture

Of course, you have several challenges: The students are geographically distributed and, therefore, using an audio-enabled online synchronous presentation room (such as Elluminate Live!) It gets much closer to that providing that intangible feeling of face-to-face discussion while being completely asynchronous.

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Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars.

eFront

note : Epignosis has created a module that provides integration of BigBlueButton conferencing in eFront Open Source Learning Management System. Dimdim delivers synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing your voice and video over the Internet - with no download. The project is hosted at Google Code.