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WiZiQ free Virtual classroom

What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform. Mark www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a profile, keep an availability schedule, and maintain a content library, which is associated with their profiles, by uploading PowerPoint presentations and PDF Files.
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Stan WiZiQ offers the following features: Works in Flash format and needs no downloads 2-way live audio/video delivery Whiteboard with Math tools Synchronous Content sharing such as PowerPoint (retains animations and transitions), PDF, Flash, MS Word, MS Excel files and videos Records all sessions to be played back in Flash format (needs no downloads) Share PowerPoint presentations asynchronously even with narrated audio in slides
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Harman
WiZiQ's Blog http://wiziq.typepad.com/ http://www.wiziq.com/Replay_Session.aspx?key=t&id=44782 http://wiziq.typepad.com/wiziqcom/2007/12/collaborating-o.html Wiziq YouTube Presentations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yty0cPzlcU Free Online Virtual Classroom WiZiQ's free Virtual Classroom is an online internet mediated classroom where the teacher and the students are connected to share a common workspace. In this online session, they make use of audio-video conferencing, text chat, whiteboard, and content sharing capabilities. There are no costs for using the virtual classroom. The sessions are recorded and are available online on WiZiQ, which can be accessed for later review or reference. Attendees can join a session with privileges to converse verbally with others; draw and write on whiteboard; and share Presentations, PDFs, Flash and Images. The teacher may withdraw or re-assign these privileges to the attendees. A Teacher can withdraw privileges from the attendee in terms that the attendee can not converse, or upload anything to share on whiteboard; in this case, the attendee is a spectator. An attendee can also request for rights, in which case, the teacher can click on the attendee’s name to transfer control. Features for Teachers Offers a complete online teaching management system to its registered teachers without installing any software. Teachers get their own virtual classroom at no costs. Provides the ability to schedule a session online through a calendar at teachers’ convenience. Teachers can interact with students through an online whiteboard to share text or documents, and through a two-way audio and text chat. Teachers can build their profile. Provides the ability to conduct one-on-one or group sessions online. Payments from learners can be accepted. Teachers can maintain a learners’ corner.

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Twitter.com/GHECGroup

I created a twitterboard for GHECGroup - for those already on Twitter or interested in beginning to use it. Once you've logged in to your Twitter account, you can visit http://www.twitter.com/GHECGroup to "Follow" that account; once you've followed, I'll set the GHECGroup account to follow you as well. Anyone that GHECGroup follows will have their updates show up on this page: http://twitter.com/GHECGroup/with_friends. If you subscribe to the RSS feed for that page using your RSS Reader, you can… Continue

Posted by Chris Duke on April 15th, 2008 at 11:11pm — No Comments (Add)

Chris Duke, An Introduction ;-)

I am . . .
  • an educational technologist and instructional designer primarily interested in emerging technologies, institutional technology integration, and distance learning.
  • a blogger at http://www.muveforward.com and http://edtechatouille.blogspot.com; a twitterer at http://www.twitter.com/cmduke; a ning'er here and at Classroom2.0 and EduBloggerWorld; a Second Lifer as Topher Zwiers and a Google devotee at cmduke (at) gmail (dot)
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Posted by Chris Duke on August 1st, 2007 at 12:35am — No Comments (Add)

Congrats on the GHEC Ning network

Howdy yall. I'm glad to see that the GHEC is still going. Hooray Chris. This is a great idea. How can we get more folks aboard? It's a great asset.

FYI, Streaming Media Magazine just published an entire issue on Best Practices in Online Learning. It is part of their Innovation Series. VBrick, Akamai, Ignite, Sonic Foundry and others have case studies.

For more information contact:
Joel Unickow
Publisher
Tel: (250) 722-9411
Fax: (250) 722-9412
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