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

Kapp Notes

It is interesting to me that we often require a higher standard of new teaching technology than we do for existing teaching technologies. In the physical world (real world), not many students hang out in my classroom when class is not in session! So why do we expect it to happen in a virtual world? Let me give you an example.