Wimba Voice Tools - -Geoff Spencer - Wimba
Thanks for talking to me and letting me listen to what you're doing.
Light a Rose! Geoff can sing :-)
wimba tools for education. 5.2 is current

geoff summarized details of our presentations and then moves toward how Wimba will integrate/address what we're trying to do.

• **Only 1/2 of the faculty in the room are using CMS tools
• how is "collaboration tools" defined?
• how do we share our tools?
• PPT is not going away...
• unique features of each presentation

Product suite addresses: sharing, video, content, voice, presence, chat
Can we unite SMS and voice-oriented users?

intro'd math and admin uses of tools.
how do we guage pedagogical effectiveness? see Andrea Henne presentation

LiveClassroom
VoIP, multi-way video (follow speaker), private and public chat, digitalwhiteboard, display local files, polls and surveys, appsharing, webbrowsing, AD, breakout rooms, archives.

Virtual clasroom could be used during emergencies...

New tools Pronto
free.... http://www.wimba.com/products/pronto/
may have cost in the future. linked to BB and WebCT.
enables part of social communication

VoiceTools uses same core of recording tool.
voice board.
Voice presentation tool
wimba pdocaster with 5.1 version.

created 'audio tour' of classroom for parents from Ss POV! imagine 'tour of alcatraz'...

Used in by SWALLT members: Lafford, Blake, Liu, and Santa Monica