Post #11
Formerly Elluminate… now Blackboard collaborate http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/collaborate/overview.aspx
About
· Combination of Wimba and Elluminate
· Provides a comprehensive learning platform
· Designed specifically for education
· Real time or any time
- Helping create virtual classrooms, offices and meeting spaces
- Offers new approaches to peer-to-peer learning and instructor led help
Platform
Blackboard offers:
Ø Blackboard learn
Ø Blackboard collaborate
Ø Blackboard connect
Ø Blackboard transact
Ø Blackboard analytics
Ø Blackboard mobile
Products
Web conferencing
< For those who are blind or have low vision:
< For those who have mobility challenges:
< For those who have learning disabilities:
< Features:
- Enhanced audio with increased clarity and reduced latency
- Ability to optimize audio for headset or room microphone
- Higher frame rates, reduced bandwidth
- Expanded Windows Media Video (WMV) file support for multimedia playback
- Refreshed user interface
- Easier more natural communication
- Smoother video motion and near lip sync with audio with high-speed connections
- Easily incorporate wider variety of content
- Modernized icons and more intuitive placement of polling response options
Enterprise Instant Messaging http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Products/Blackboard-Collaborate/Enterprise-Instant-Messaging.aspx
· Presence and instant messaging to find others and interact on demand
· Desktop video conferencing and VoIP audio for cost-effective meetings
· LMS and flat-file integration for complete directory of teachers, students, and classes
· Convenient, ad hoc network invitations and broadcast notifications
· Whiteboard with built-in learning objects and templates
· Application sharing and queued chat for tutoring and online office hours
· Instant access to campus services and instant school-wide notifications
· Universal accessibility and advanced privacy features
Voice Authoring
http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Products/Blackboard-Collaborate/Voice-Authoring.aspx
Voice Presentation: Add web content alongside vocal messages.
Voice Board: Post and listen to voice messages within discussion boards.
Voice Podcaster: Create or upload podcasts for user subscription.
Voice Email: Send and listen to voice through email messages.
Voice Recording: Record and listen to voice on a web page.
Integrated Gradebook: Automatically update CMS gradebooks with voice board assessments.
Licensing
· Blackboard Collaborate™ Enterprise Licensing offers unlimited learning with management control
· You can easily expand your use and get unlimited learning enterprise-wide for one flat fee—without the hassle of large upfront expenditures, usage predictions, seat restrictions, or overage charges.
· Single-room solution that fits your needs and your budget. It’s a great way to begin using our educational collaboration platform.
· 30 day free trial offer
I've found Blackboard collaborate easy enough to navigate in my university classes. I would like to see a few examples of it being used with younger children (grades 1 - 4). Unfortunately I haven't found such examples as of yet. I think this a resource that would be better to have a staff buy in instead of an individual.
1 comment:
As you know from class, I'm a pretty regular user of Elluminate (now Blackboard Collaborate). I understand it is a combination of the best features of Wimba and Elluminate, but I haven't really figured that out yet. Unless I'm missing something, the functionality seems to be about the same as it always has been. That's okay -- I'm happy with the product as it is for the most part, but I've wondered for awhile what the added value features are from Wimba? Do you know, Maureen?
I do hope that these tools mature in a way that allows us to meet in real-time video. Right now, we're restricted to a few cameras or microphones, and the bandwidth issues are considerable. We start getting distorted audio and locked video relatively soon.
The other thing I'd like to see is a better interface for incorporating dynamic media, especially video, into the whiteboard.
But all of that being said, this has been a solid tool for me, and one I've come to rely on a great deal. Thanks for sharing this material.
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