Facilitated tech for and observed a webinar today featuring Dr. Roblyer on a panel of experts in curriculum and instruction design for virtual schools. The meeting was conducted with a web-based java app that I was skeptical about at first, but pretty impressed with after seeing it live.
About 40 particpants joined in this webinar by clicking on links sent by email. The link pulls up a session in elluminate, which is basically a chat room with everything but the kitshen sink thrown into it. It offers live audio (one person at a time to avoid confusion), video, slides, polling, hand-raising, chat (as backup for audio problems), and active weblinks in the slides. They also did followup with all the participants via a survey in Zoomerang.
There is probably more I am missing and I hope to get a demo of this somehow because I want to see what all the moderator was looking at, since they were able to do the online polling, presentation of that data, and on-the-fly Q&A.
This may just be enough to get me excited about online and distance learning again..
Posted by cmwillis at August 24, 2006 1:18 AM | TrackBack