Posts Tagged ‘elluminate’
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. [...]
Last Chance to win a Blackboard Collaborate license for your Moodle
The Collaborate for Good contest/sweepstakes is finishing up this week, anyone interested in winning a Blackboard Collaborate synchronous classroom for use for their class needs to submit according to the rules by 7/25. Blackboard Collaborate was created through the Blackboard acquisition of Elluminate/Wimba online synchronous classroom [...]
No more Wimba/Elluminate for Moodlers: Blackboard Collaborate officially unveiled
Earlier this week at Blackboard World in Las Vegas Blackboard officially unveiled its synchronous meeting tool based on the two acquired products Wimba and Elluminate. Current users of the two legacy products will be able to upgrade to the new official Blackboard product, Blackboard Collaborate at no cost; this includes all Moodle using [...]
Win Blackboard Collaborate (a 50 seat classroom) for a year!
Here's a cool promotion which would integrate with your current Moodle course: win a Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) 50 seat license for a year, just by registering on a site and posting a proposal for how you'd use it in the coming year. According to Steve Hargadon, the man behind the scenes, Join the contest site [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Breaking: Dimdim to discontinue free accounts and open source project in acquisition
Great news for Dimdim staff and founders, but bad news perhaps for most of Dimdim's paid and open source users: Dimdim was acquired by Salesforce.com according to a recent announcement. Dimdim has been available as a Moodle integration for several years and is the first conference tool that I cut my teeth on in 2007. It had been a viable open [...]
Notes and Slides from the Mt. Orange School Demo provided by @lasic
Martin Dougiamas (@moodler) and Tomaz Lasic (@lasic) hosted a quick demo and call to action for the Mt. Orange School demo site right before Christmas. As a follow up Tomaz has provided the presentation recording in Elluminate, his slide notes and the full presentation from that day http://www.twitlonger.com/show/7m04ig. See a link to each [...]
Live Tour of the Mt Orange School Demo by @Lasic and @Moodler (12/22/10 @ 8am EST)
Just in time for the holidays there's a very special event coming up featuring two of the foremost Moodlers: Martin Dougiamas and Tomaz Lasic. The event, a showcase of the Mt. Orange School, will feature this working Moodle 2.0 demonstration site with commentary and Q&A with Martin and Tomaz. When: December 22nd (Wednesday) at 8am EST [...]
#Blackboard follows through on pledge to continue support Wimba/Elluminate for Moodle
From the Elluminate Blog , As we prepare to announce our Blackboard Collaborate product strategy at EDUCAUSE 2010, it seems like the perfect time to reiterate our commitment to provide open, education-focused collaboration. While some may think that we may waiver on our commitment, I’m here to tell you that we won’t. A key part of our mission [...]
