How to Host an Effective Web Conference — telspan.com
By following some simple steps before your event takes place, you can help to ensure that you have utilized the web conferencing platform for the maximum benefit of all who participate. As you will see below, much of your time is invested in pre-conference preparation. Once you follow these steps just once, you will be prepared to duplicate effective and efficient web conferences in the future.
Virtual classroom caters to all abilities — from the DailyWildcat.com by Jazmine Woodberry
Anyone with a UA NetID can now access Elluminate, a free, virtual, collaborative web-conferencing system, headed by the Office of Instruction and Assessment and University Information Technology Services.
Elluminate is an interactive network of Web-based video sessions with text and images. It also features an online whiteboard, a button to notify professors of questions and chat features. The system is designed to meet a variety of students’ needs, from those who simply missed class, to those with disabilities.
“I think if you are creative in how you teach, Elluminate is a wonderful tool to put in your toolbox … for teachers of any discipline,” said L. Penny Rosenblum, a UA adjunct associate professor of disability and psycho-educational studies.
Is it Real or is it Telepresence? — from the electronic papyrus blog
“When Mike Derocher, the Experience Design Manager for HP in Corvallis, Oregon invited us to see a demonstration of their Halo telepresence system, I wondered how this might be relevant to our work in financially strapped higher education. But the demonstration convinced me that the technology of telepresence is on a vector to a whole new landscape of possibilities for collaboration and learning; and despite it’s current high price tag, it’s sending us an echo from the future.”
Organizing Meetings via Videoconference — from Videoconferening out on a Lim
