I love being able to catch sessions we miss due to time zones. Is there an elluminate app for the iPhone?
If it's provided, you can also look for an RSS or podcast feed for a series to be able to *listen* to the past events.
Hi Jenny,
I agree, recordings are great to watch when you can't attend the live session.
To answer your question: using Elluminate Publish! (see http://www.elluminate.com/products/publish/index.jsp for more information), you can convert an Elluminate recording to a movie file in various formats. You can then watch the recording on your iPhone or any mobile device.
Zemina
I used to be just an asynchronous virtual teacher because of technological problems with webinar software. Now I even use the webinar software in face to face training of my residents (doctors in training).
It´s great to know what everybody thinks when discussing a case. Everybody gets a chance to answer my questions and to give his or her diagnosis. I use a lot the polls and prepared questions. I use the chat for them to post the answer to open questions. I have everybody write their answer and they all hit "enter" at the same time.
This is a great advantage over open questions in face to face where you can only get the answer from one or two, because after that the rest already may have heard the correct answer.
Regards
Eduardo
What I love...
- that I can meet with people from great distances
- that in some ways webinars are more interactive than the classroom if you use the VOIP, whiteboard, application sharing and polling functions effectively.
- that I can use it in a live classroom and invite a guest from anywhere in the world to speak with my students
- that I can record all my classes and my students benefit
What I hate...
- having to share 50 seats with other faculty...we need a bigger account LOL
- that it takes so long to convert recorded sessions to mpeg4 (I give them the link, but I like to record to mpeg4 for iTunes U)
cheers
Rob
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What a great list, Rob.
I thought this article I stumbled upon recently was brought up some really good points about the teacher/student relationship:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/daniel-willingham/th.html
This is a GREAT discussion. I of course find it particularly interesting because I manage the webinar series for Elluminate.
Webinar are wonderful because:
-they provide us with the opportunity to learn from experts from around the world without ever having to leave our home or office.
-they enable me to meet others that have similar topical interests so that we may continue the conversation elsewhere after the event has concluded
-I can learn from an active chat as well as a presenter and not be punished for passing notes
-I can have live interaction including collaborating on materials, seeing what people are doing via webcams, chat conversation, etc. This is sooo much better than listening to a recorded voice over with power point presentation.
-if I find someone particularly boring, I can still get things done while half listening and no feelings are hurt
-I can go back and view an archived recording if I missed the event, forgot something or got interupted during the presentation.
-in Elluminate "I" can determine my view and interaction. If the chat gets distracting, I can turn it off!
What I don't like:
-Some webinars still reflect the sage on the stage methodology
-Technology isn't always perfect
-I don't get to see the crowd (it can be hard to speak to a group of 300 when you feel like you are speaking to your computer so I try to visualize them)
-Well, we could have a whole discussion on Netiquette :)
Heather I too dislike the 'sit n' git' quality of Webinars. In a Webinar series a colleague and I are planning we are trying to mix it up a bit to allay that 'sage on the stage' vibe. In advance of the sessions we are asking participants to weigh in on the topics in order to shape the discussion. We are also asking those giving compelling feedback to join us as guests in the Webinar. We are hoping this kind of collaborative planning (very unconference-y) will make the event more interactive and ultimately more valuable to the participants.
I'll let everyone know how it goes. :)
Jane- I look forward to hearing about how your webinar series goes. I have tried a few strategies in the past such as a very casual round table where Instructional Designers would gather once a month to share the "latest and greatest" tool/technology that they were using that month. This was lots of fun, very informative and completely unstructured. It also helps to have attendees arrive 15 minutes before the main event to participate in ice breakers. This is great for making connections and losening up the crowd before hand. What tool are you using for the pre-conversations?
Hi Heather: I LOVE the idea of starting with icebreakers! For the pre-conversation we thought about doing it here in LearnCentral but I hesitate to ask people to join yet another environment (creates a higher bar for participation and we want that bar low).
The 3-webinar series is called Better with Practice: PBL
Implementation Tips from the Field. We are holding pre-conversations in Classroom 2.0, thinking that's where most of our peeps are, and in our blog. We are driving traffic to both through twitter and our friends in the edubloggosphere. Steve has kindly agreed to cross-post in the LC and Clrm 2.0 calendars. Our first event is on February 18. The first session topic is
How to Create a Culture of Inquiry in the PBL Classroom. We are offering each session twice on the scheduled day to accomodate east and west coast work schedules.
I'm interested in your Instr. Design round table, maybe we should take this up in email or chat? In Skype I'm jkrauss1989.
Gartner estimates that by 2011, 75% of corporate america will have access to webinars and web conferencing tools.
I would venture a guess that the technology has penetrated the education space as much as business.
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