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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

“Death by PowerPoint online is worse than Death by PowerPoint in the classroom&# (not an exact quote, but gets the gist of what she said). Animations when possible (in Elluminate, must do a slide for each change). Breakout rooms–how does audio work? Even the PowerPoint 2007 Smart Art would be an improvement.

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TCC08: Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible

Experiencing eLearning

Video files & audio podcasts. Create descriptive audio for videos (i.e., Hearing audio content. Alternative text for audio (i.e., Elluminate has real-time captioning available (I’ve never seen anyone use this in a presentation before–very nicely done. Text-based files. Threaded discussions.

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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. The comments boxes below each post support dialogue, and the tagging feature on most blogs enables easier search for content.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Here are the results and the level of exposure to technology tools this community provides: Twitter (2482) Social Network (1999) Wiki (1610) LMS (1346) Podcaster (1239) Facebook (1176) Flash (980) PowerPoint (922) YouTube (843) RSS (814) LinkedIn (798) Second Life (687) iPhone (602) Director (584) Moodle (550) PDF (521) Captivate (515) Wikipedia (502) (..)

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: e-Learning Guild Synchronous Learning Systems

Learning Visions

Karl: "The two of the most used items for synchronous learning are lectures via PowerPoint and software training (app sharing)." $199 Elluminate 4.2% Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. 199 for a printed copy of the full report.$995 Which tools do you primarily use?

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

eFront

BigBlueButton is a free web-conferencing tool with text chat, audio and video capabilites, a virtual whiteboard and many more presentation and conferencing features. I have used www.dimdim.com before and Elluminate (but this is not open source.) Elluminate is a really nice tool but not open source.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

10 Free Audio Programs to Use for E-Learning - Rapid eLearning Blog , June 1, 2010 I’m no audio engineer. So I won’t get into all of the nitty gritty details of audio editing. If you want more details, one of the community MVPs shared some tips on how to improve your audio quality. Where: Here in Elluminate.

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