The audio and visual portions are conducted through Elluminate, a free online web conferencing service. Here is some information for a webinar I am doing this Friday. The webinar is titled "Communicating with the Next Generation." Here is the description of the event. Be sure to register Communicating with the Next Generation Date: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:00 a.m. MST Length: 90 minutes Description: Are your classroom lectures designed to teach the new generation of students? MORE

At its peak my Elluminate webinar last night attracted a knowledgeable and discerning audience of about 150 people from around the world, which I found very rewarding. positive deviance Elluminate change agency Steve Hargadon MORE

This is AWESOME! Especially for those of us on the outside of corporate funded apps like NetMeeting etc. While at Intel I became very used to NetMeeting despite its issues. So, I'm very excited to now have my own vRoom that doesn't kill my budget.because its FREE! I can tell you without hesitation that this is a must have. Go get it! And set up a meeting with me. Seriously, I want to try it out with others.live. Get your FREE vRoom (And NO! I don't mind plugging apps on my blog. MORE

GLEAN, a Google Apps mashup using Yammer , Voice Thread , Elluminate , and other tools, became a reality soon after the IT head saw a similar network in action at another university. MORE

Peter Norvig's keynote can be viewed in full and on demand, courtesy of Elluminate. Tags: Benjamin Bloom Elluminate Silicon Valley Google ALT-C 2007 Peter Norvig Well, it's all over for another year, including the shouting. MORE

I have also presented recently at one of Steve Hargardon's live Elluminate global webinars, and have to say that the experience was very similar to the MOOC. MORE

Application training via a synchronous tool like WebEx, Adobe Connect, or Elluminate too often ends up with passive learners. If I’m doing software application training, doing it as a webinar isn’t really my first choice. I’d rather create a bunch of Captivate tutorials and job aids to let people learn at their own pace, when they need to use the skills. Just-in-time, interactive training that supports or simulates actual tasks is my first choice. MORE

Experience with one of the following would be helpful: Elluminate Adobe Connect Camtasia (or another recording tool) If you can volunteer to help, please drop me an email: akarrer@techempower.com Browse eLearning Content at www.elearninglearning.com.At the end of our Learn Trends conference last year, one of the comments was that we needed to do smaller versions in an on-going basis. Well we are going to start exactly that. MORE

Animations when possible (in Elluminate, must do a slide for each change). Image Credit : elluminate by shareski. These are my live blogged notes from Karen Hyder’s webinar, Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions from the Training Magazine Network. MORE

link lets you download a recording of our Elluminate session). The Social Media train in on the move – and here we are at stop #5 of the Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning, (2010), Pfeiffer blog book tour. What is Social Media for Trainers? MORE

You can see Patrick’s presentation in his blog , and you can see the whole Elluminate recording, including a lively chat and lots of questions, here. Here’s a short presentation that includes: The one powerful change that will make our elearning a lot more effective. MORE

Some of my audience may well be in a state of undress, but I will be wearing my best suit and tie (as the pigs land for refuelling) to present from the confines of my home office, using my faithful laptop Nigel, and my Elluminate headset. MORE

When I give a presentation live and face to face, it is qualitatively different for me and my audience to a presentation I give through Elluminate or Adobe Connect. Transliteracy can be defined as being literate across a number of platforms. MORE

Arriving late to an auditorium already full to the brim, I was forced yesterday to watch Itiel Dror's presentation to the ALT-C 2008 conference in Leeds from a second room where a video feed was being streamed in using Elluminate. Now I've seen Itiel speak a number of times, so my attention focused more on the effectiveness of the technology that was being used to deliver his presentation. MORE

Regular live online sessions, featuring experts from Plan itself, and external speakers; all delivered using Elluminate with funding help through the LINGOS programme for NGOs. Last night I attended an award ceremony for the UK National Training Awards and was delighted to see one of my blended learning designs for the child development charity Plan International recognised with a national award. MORE

For now, enterprise users of Moodlerooms and NetSpot can rest easy knowing that Blackboard plans on letting them run as they are now vs. swallowing them whole as they did with Elluminate, the virtual classroom. Blackboard’s statement of principles about open source says it is. committed to supporting the growth, development and use of open source technologies in education worldwide.”. Blackboard also says it. MORE

Other best-in-class technologies recognized include Citrix GotoWebinar, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, Elluminate, Lectora, Questionmark, Pulse and Kaplan STT Trainer: They won platinum awards in various other categories. I am pleased to share with you that Raptivity is once again the winner of LearnX Australia Platinum award under the ‘Best Rapid eLearning Tool’ category. MORE

Just enjoyed an interesting half hour testing out the Elluminate Live! Tags: sloan consortium blog Elluminate Live wiki EDEN MORE

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. MORE

We are going out live over Elluminate at this link for those interested in participating remotely. The first plenary session is underway for ALT-C 2008 here at the University of Leeds. You can experience the atmosphere and the content without suffering the downpours we all had to negotiate to get to the conference hall. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. MORE

This makes me wonder what these systems will start to look like in a couple of years and whether folks like Elluminate will be able to compete Just saw this : Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it was finally adding voice capabilities to its Live Communication Server. And now Cisco is adding hosted collaboration to compete with Microsoft's hosted service known as Live Meeting. MORE

I found a Google doc via delicious that I have a feeling wasn't intended to be public, but it has such a wonderful comparison of the various web conferencing tools that I felt compelled to copy it here and as a new Google Doc in case the document goes away. I also noticed that Wikipedia has a page - Comparison of web conferencing software - but it doesn't have pricing and a few other columns. MORE

Where: Here in Elluminate. Best of eLearning Learning. June 2010. Another great month for eLearning content. Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises - Performance Learning Productivity , June 18, 2010 I read a piece written by Kate Graham of e2train on Thursday and it started me thinking about the ‘real learning versus managed learning’ debate. MORE

I will be working in the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland, and will be speaking via the Elluminate platform, next Thursday (15th October) at around 1600 BST. All events will be hosted in Elluminate and recorded for archives. MORE

In the post-session discussion, I wrote “Asking Elluminate to do what we wanted was akin to inviting 70 people into a classroom for 30, gagging the teacher, using spray paint instead of chalk on the board.&# Sometimes things go so far off the rails that all you can do is chuckle at life’s absurdity. Today at Learn Trends , I demonstrated my ability to screw up everything technical within reach. MORE

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. MORE

Missed the beginning of the presentation due to my computer’s inability to start Elluminate in under 9 minutes). A: In the past has been mostly face-to-face, but are doing some mentoring through Elluminate too. The full title of the presentation I’m liveblogging is “Help! I Need Somebody: Faculty Perspectives on Transitioning from WebCT to a Sakai-based Learning Management System,&# by Ariana Eichelberger, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa. MORE

Y'see the sessions will be delivered synchronously online through Elluminate, so I can dress how I want on this occasion. The session is on 19th November 2008 between 14:00 - 16:00 (GMT) and will be live on Elluminate. MORE

Above is the scary baby from the cover slide: I will present this slide show with live commentary on Thursday from the Cork Institute of Technology over the Elluminate platform. It’s Personal: Learning Spaces, Learning Webs View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. My slides for the upcoming PLE/PLN Online Symposium hosted by the University of Manitoba are now available for viewing above. MORE

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

In addition to the four they list, I've personally had experience with GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar, Elluminate, Centra and Interwise. And I used to with Elluminate, but have not had much issue recently. Good question about adoption of webinar software / services - this time from someone who went to my workshop in Cincinnati - Revolution in Workplace Learning - who by the way - called it "awesome." MORE

We’ve used Elluminate as our webinar system. Thanks to Scott Skibell , we recorded the sessions directly off the web, i.e., outside of Elluminate and he produced great recordings. I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. This conference has been run for a few years now and is tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year. MORE

But the guys have made a sensible decision to use Elluminate instead, as it requires less bandwidth (we only have 2Mb ps in the hotel conference venue) and the audio and streaming media systems are superior and will be a little less prone to problems. Tags: Elluminate Live Second Life There has been a change in strategy. I'm a little disappointed we can't use Second Life to do a Second Life panel - it would have been a challenge and quite risky due to technical limitations. MORE

Four-step model by Ruth Clark on designing for synchronous online training via Elluminate etc. 3 Web-Based Tools that Generate Awesome Tag Clouds. Better than your average tag cloud–interactive, colorful, shaped like clouds, etc. tags: visualization tagging tools. Four Steps to Effective Virtual Classroom Training by Ruth Clark : Learning Solutions Magazine. MORE

e-learning Connective Knowledge connectivism elluminate George Siemens learning models learning theory Networked Learning online learning program Stephen Downes university of manitobaGeorge Siemens and Stephen Downes are co-facilitating an online course titled Connectivism, Networked Learning and Connective Knowledge from January 12th 2011. Connectivism, Networked Learning, Connective Knowledge course is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. MORE

Today was a technological success, where we linked 5 people together using Elluminate and managed a slightly flakey audio system in a very large and echoey hotel ballroom in Kuala Lumpur. Well we did it. And it worked. MORE

As I mentioned in Real-Time Collaborative Editing , I had a fantastic experience participating in group editing of a Mind Map of collaborative tools during a session at Learn Trends. You can see the result below. But it was interesting to see the results exported which I've embedded below. MORE