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

Kapp Notes

In the course of a week, I get asked many questions about Virtual Worlds, an interesting one that keeps occurring goes something like this. It seems that students find virtual worlds boring. How can I get them more into virtual worlds beyond the classroom? So why do we expect it to happen in a virtual world?

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Teaching & Learning Conference

Moodle Journal

With regard to content I took the opportunity to demonstrate Wimba Create , which in itself would act as nice advertisement for my training session. Overall the sessions seemed to go very well and there was a lot of interest pursuing the use of Wimba Create as a tool for converting Word docs.

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We have 2D Virtual Classrooms, Why 3D?

Kapp Notes

In a 3D world, the interaction with the students feels more intimate than with a 2-D distance learning application such as Centra, Horizon Wimba or Adobe Connect. We've got plenty of great 2D platforms for communication, what does 3D add? Here is a short answer.

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eXtending the Web

Learning with e's

I was actually up an hour earlier at 6 am finalising and uploading my slides onto ASCILITE's Wimba platform, and then making sure the technical details were all in order. We live in exciting and challenging times, and we can expect to see a lot of changes taking place in the next few years in the world of education. But I enjoyed it.

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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). billion by 2014. (The

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

docnum=446 January 12-14, 2009 Learning and Technology World Forum 2009, London, United Kingdom. https://gem.glasgows.co.uk/ latwf/login_mailinglist.html January 12-14, 2009 Management World 2009, Singapore. link] conference.php January 16-18, 2009 World Universities Forum , Mumbai, India. link] downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446

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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

eLearning 24-7

Virtual Desktops. Virtual desktops not only mimic a desktop on a cpu, but they include such things as a calendar, clock, media player, wallpaper background, desktop icons, online storage, word processing, high file size upload (some go up to 150mb per file) and e-mail. those who are using IE 7).