Blackboard - Faculty Resources

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Purpose of the Pilot

• Explore the potential of using web conferencing and virtual classroom sessions for learning and communicating
• Follow the use of web conferencing/virtual classroom sessions to determine common use trends at Algonquin and best practices
  
  

What is Elluminate Live? (Blackboard Collaborate)

Elluminate Live! is a web conferencing and virtual classroom tool that supports real-time online discussion and collaboration. Algonquin is licensed to use Elluminate Live!, on a pilot basis, until the summer, 2012.

View Demo (Elluminate Live! recorded session.)
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Key Features

• Interactive whiteboard for commenting and sharing presentations
• Chat function for real-time text input
• Web tours to discuss and investigate websites
• Polling
• Application sharing for moderators to share an application (e.g. MS Excel) and give participants remote control
• Breakout rooms to facilitate group work
• Session capture: record a guest speaker, lecturette or student presentation for later viewing and evaluation
• Set up sessions within your Blackboard course
• Accessibility options
  
  

Ideas for Using Elluminate Live!

• Meetings with at-a-distance participants
• Virtual office hours for students
• Live instruction and demonstrations
• Tutoring and mentoring
• Asynchronous and synchronous
• Collaborative content development
• Student project collaboration
• In-class collaboration
• Remote guest speakers and virtual field trips
• Professional development
• Virtual help desk
• Orientation sessions

Get Started with using Elluminate Live!