Posts Tagged ‘bigbluebutton’
Go Ahead…Push the Big Blue Button
By Kent Brooks, Brian Carpenter and Steve Prater of Western Oklahoma State College Western Oklahoma State College has faced fiscal constraints for a long time. We are the classic portrait of Rural America. We see substantial population loss in rural counties, an aging demographic and declining fertility rates. [...]
Echo360 and Netspot team up to provide Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 plugin (due August 2011)
While there are several live, synchronous meeting and capture tools on the market for Moodle (BigBlueButton, Blackboard Collaborate, Adobe Connect, WizIQ), there's a new type of lecture capture system working on Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 integration via plugin: Echo360. Echo360 does lecture capture and presentation slide organization so students can [...]
Ask Mister Moodle: Can I use a white board with Moodle?
Here's a recent question about Moodle which I think has a couple different answers: Can I use a white board with Moodle? First off, it depends on if you mean a physical Whiteboard/Smartboard with Moodle. In that case, yes kinda. Early in my career as a Moodle trainer around the state of Vermont one of the teachers I was working with had [...]
Moodle Monday: Big Blue Button by @timdalton
Following on from the post on Moodlenews announcing the activity module for Big Blue Button we have had it installed and in testing for a little while now. Big Blue Button is a fantastic piece of open source software for delivering remote classroom/training type sessions. Having spent a fair amount of time using GoToMeeting I can say with some [...]
New Updates for Moodle’s Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate Live/Wimba) integrations
David Nagel, published at The Journal and Campus Technology reported yesterday that Blackboard had just updated the Moodle to Blackboard Collaborate integration (for both products: Elluminate Live and Wimba). This integration allows for scheduled and open synchronous course activities and online meeting places through both [...]
BigBlueButton releases activity module integration for Moodle 1.9 & 2.0
Please note that this release is for testing purposes only. Just yesterday Blindside Networks released it's integration module for both Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0. The beta integration is for the synchronous webinar tool for which they both created and provide commercial support: BigBlueButton. This is a timely release in the wake of the [...]
Some may say “Good bye, Elluminate/Wimba. Hello, BigBlueButton”
On the recent post, "What the Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle", Denis Zgonjanin commented that a possible open source alternative to both Wimba and Elluminate resides in BigBlueButton. BBB is only 2 years old and is an open source synchronous education tool. In response to the acquisition, the official BigBlueButton blog says, But [...]
