Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Wimba!

The School District of Clay County, Florida now has an exciting set of collaboration and communication tools called Wimba Collaboration Suite. This suite includes the latest and greatest tools available to online learners, and it's now inside our Blackboard Learning System. Wimba Collaboration Suite consists of the following four programs:
  • Wimba Classroom
  • Wimba Pronto
  • Wimba Voice
  • Wimba Create

This post is dedicated to the first program called Wimba Classroom. Wimba Classroom helps teachers and students build relationahips by combining interactive technologies with instructional best practices. Click on the player below to hear a podcast that will tell you more about Wimba Classroom.

3 comments:

Kathleen Schofield said...

Great podcast! I am looking forward to learning more about Wimba!

Adele Reed said...

Hi Ruth,

Your podcast was terrific! I look forward to learning more about Wimba Classroom - I shared Wimba (as we've previously known it) with a few teachers at my school, and they had a ball with the real-time audio/visual collaboration! I can't wait to see what else is available!

Adele

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