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Using Wimba In Blackboard

Welcome!This presentation tells you almost all about the advantages of the Wimba Collaboration suite

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What’s Wimba?

• It’s a ‘Collaboration suite’

• The suite contains a number of Tools to ‘Collaborate’ in combination with sound and vision.

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What’s Wimba?

• The suite contains:

• -Pronto • -Classroom (e-Room)• -Voice Announcements• -Podcaster• -Voice discussion board• -Voice e-Mail• -Create

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Why Wimba in Blackboard

• Because? Why?• Humans are visually set • Fits the time spirit and lifestyle of our modern

students• We think there’s a need of virtual communication in

combination with ‘Blended Learning’• Students are always online and have a huge virtual

network, so education can reach them easily

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Why Wimba in BlackboardSummarized

• -Saves time and (probably) money• -accessible • -Bb integration• -personal, direct, with eye-contact• -easy (personal) configuration• -probably better motivated students • -more interactive-, -attractive education

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• Enhanced Communication• Independency in scheduling sessions • Independency in scheduling locations• Sessions are recordable for re-use• Expert on-site possible• Less travel time • Teachers can easily integrate Blended Learning

into their curriculum

Why Wimba in BlackboardSummarized

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Here’s Pronto

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• Instant Messaging functions: Chat, Sound and Vision

• Every Course/Organization is linked to Pronto

• Direct (online) acces to ELS (e-Learningsupport)

“We can even show you what’s on our screen to help you”

Pronto

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Pronto

• Advantages• Enhanced communication • Personal contact (eye-contact)• Less travel time • Feedback, to and fro • Accessible • Helpdesk online: ELS (‘school’ tab)• Flexible personal configuration (work and home)• Easy acces anytime from anyplace

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Pronto

• Disadvantages:

• Large groups need efficient handling.• Organizations to 999 participants• Some knowledge of Webcam and Headset

handling is needed

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• Pronto is installed on all TUDelft educational computers.

• At home everyone can download and install it for free

• The great advantages show when we all use it.

• SO:……….

Pronto

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Download and install pronto from Blackboard

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Wimba Classroom

• Record your own presentations• Online web-lectures (live)• Interact with poll’s, whiteboard, breakout-rooms• Office hour from wherever you want• Expert online• Feedback, to and fro• Flexible moderation• International collaboration within reach

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Wimba Voice Announcements

You can quickly post an Announcement in Blackboardwith short instructions or messages

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Podcaster

• Record your feedback

• Groups- and personal feedback • Instructive (by voice) assignments

• Students can replay them, even on a mobile device

• Rss subscription for students

Podcaster

Easy

Interface

with Rssfeed

possibility

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Voice Board

• Moderate a ‘discussion’ in Blackboard with sound and vision.

• React on student input

• All input is ‘Gradable’

Voice board

Interface

recognizable

and ‘gradable’

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Voice e-mail

• Send Short Messages through voice e-mail

Voice e-mail

To everyone or to a Selected group or person

All send voice e-mailwill be archived in Blackboard

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Wimba Create

• A Plug-in for MS Word• For making:• Interactive SCORM packages• SCORM can contain text, questions, answers,

links and multimedia• The possibility of anticipating on student input• Students can be led through a certain

interactive study path by your design.

Wimba Create

• Go to Blackboard, login with your NetID• Click the tab ‘Staff Info’ and ‘Staff Recourses’• Go to TDS • Download ‘Wimba Create’ setup file• Start ‘setup’ • Fill in the authentication code • Wimba Create starts at ‘tools’ or ‘extra’ in

Word.

Wimba Create

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Our Goal is:

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Target Groups

• Teachers• Students• Pre-registering

students• Experts online• Tutors• Helpdesks• Managers• Administrations

Actualy: all employees and students of TUDelft

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Thanks for watching!

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