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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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Weekly Bookmarks (1-2-2011)

Experiencing eLearning

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

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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. Four Steps to Effective Virtual Classroom Training. Tips For Making Virtual Classroom Sessions More Interactive. Tips for Effective Webinars.

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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

In a classroom setting, you couldn’t ask everyone for feedback they way you can in virtual classroom. Animations when possible (in Elluminate, must do a slide for each change). Image Credit : elluminate by shareski. Lecture is a bad use of synchronous online learning. Share example = Microphone.

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Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID Live on EdTechTalk)

Learning Visions

52) Essentially – it’s giving people the chance to be known as a real person in an online virtual classroom. From an ID perspective -- what can you do to create social presence in an online classroom? Tools like Elluminate can provide connection through voice and immediacy. Can be dry, but there are fun ways to do this.

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Social Experience

Tony Karrer

Way back in Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 , I predicted Virtual Classroom Tools - Meeting Tool + Second Life Lite A medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not 3D immersive, but that are more like Mii characters in a 2.5D It goes from a game to a social experience.

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Another Stake in Ground for Blackboard: Two New Investments in the Open-source E-learning Market

Janet Clarey

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. Enterprise users of Blackboard might look forward to more options. That’s a good thing.