Enhancing Online Teaching with

Wimba, Elluminate, SAM/CaseGrader, and Captivate

By Edna Fry and Kathy Hamby

Conducted Dean’s Forum using WebCT• Survey of Internet courses and Student

Satisfaction- Included 17 Discussion questions- Survey

How We Started

Things we Learned

Experience• Learning curve and

expectations varied• Different levels of Expertise• How do you create a

balance?

Convenience• Students want

anytime, anywhere• Flexibility

The Biggest Surprise Should not be completely self-taught Students want Instructor Interaction

• Helps level playing field• More than a static website• Interaction and/or more feedback• Timely responses• Wanted Chats and Discussions

Student and Instructor Frustration

Interactive ComponentPro Immediate

clarification Encourage

interaction

Cons Required

chats/sessions detract from the anywhere, anytime advantages

“..you don’t have to wait for several hours or even days for a reply to your question or response.”

What we did

Applications used

Wimba/Horizon Elluminate SAM/CaseGrader

• Exams• Projects

Adobe Captivate

http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/?promoid=DJDVX

http://www.elluminate.com/

http://sam2007.course.com/

http://www.wimba.com/

Wimba Classroom Capabilities Audio, Video, Application sharing, Content display Polling Presenter on-the-fly Shared Web

browsing

Asynchronous chats Recorded chats participant lists MP3 downloads Interactive

whiteboarding

Wimba/Horizon

Wimba Voice

a web-based voice solution that facilitates and promotes vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment.

Benefits Voice Discussion

Boards Post voice and text

Embedded Voice within Course Pages Add listening exercises and voice messages, simply highlight important points.

Voice-Enabled E-Mail Integrates right into

your Course Management SystemJust like any other component

Podcasting

Student messages

Wimba Live Classroom

With Archive features

Podcast Weekly News

ELLUMINATE.COM

Use of Sam Projects, Assessment, and CaseGrader in Online and Hybrid Courses

Adobe Captivate Is a software that automatically records all onscreen

actions and instantly creates an interactive Flash simulation. Point and click to add text captions, narration, and e-learning interactions without any programming knowledge. http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/features/?view=topnew

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How can you use it? Can be used for Internet courses

Traditional Courses

Hybrid Courses

Automatically generated when you create a Captivate demonstration:

Mouse path Visual mouse clicks Explanations Standard playback controls

With these capabilities

Adding Videos Incorporates PowerPoint presentations Full motion Simulations with feedback—quiz your students

on concepts

Automatically generated when you create a Captivate simulation: Interactive hot spots Prompts Instructional feedback Scoring & tracking of interactions

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This was wonderful

Have you ever had a concept or just syllabus information that the students just don’t get?

Mine was:

Guess how many times I’ve had to say this?

How many students ask a semester? On the Internet I list this in at least in 6 different

places I have it posted on the homepage Did they get it?

Captivate takes minutes to create

Adds clarity Actually visually assists the students Fills the gap between instructor and vague concepts Helps bridge the digital divide And it lowers that frustration level

Minutes to create or longer

Use existing Power Points Point and Click—quick and dirty

• Animated text and pictures• Incorporate movies and sound

Only creates 2 files to upload• Swf• Html—this file is incorporated into WebCT

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Captivate New Project

Captivate Recording Tool

Captivate Publishing

Captivate Demo and Tips Link-Kathy Hamby

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/?trackingid=ZOGA

Thank You!Questions?

Governors State Universityhttp://www.govst.edu

Edna Frye-fry@govst.edu

Kathy Hambyk-hamby@govst.edu