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 Nov/Dec 2009 training opportunities with your host Kelley Davis
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 The New Wimba
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your host Kwame Rakes
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 The QEP Connection
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Dr. David Gyertson
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To see more details about our training courses, to register, or to see any last-minute changes, visit the Regent Training System (RTS).
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Did you know...that Regent recently upgraded to a new version of Wimba Live Classroom and Wimba Voice Tools?
The new version of Live Classroom allows students to easily download live classroom sessions into MP3 and MP4 files. This means that students no longer need to be tied to their computer while watching a class archive. Now they can download archives onto their mobile devices and listen while they are on the go!
Wimba Voice tools have always provided voice capabilities for online courses, allowing voice messages to be embedded in course pages and in threaded discussions. With the new upgrade, Wimba Voice Boards can be integrated with the Blackboard Grade Center.
For example, suppose an instructor asks her students to verbally debate on a topic using a Voice Board in Blackboard. When the instructor is ready to grade students on their debating skills, she enters the grades while in the Voice Board application and they are automatically integrated into the Grade center in Blackboard. This feature creates a more formal assessment of student learning and saves the instructor time in the process.
If you would like more information on how to effectively use Wimba tools, contact Chris Nickel at the Center for Teaching and Learning, extention 4791,
Now you know!
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 Blackboard 8.0 Tutorials
Blackboard 8.0 Overview
(You may be prompted to enter your Regent username and password in order to view the tutorial.)
Blackboard Quick Tutorials Library
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Gyertson: If we go to these other nations and say to them, “Boy, we’ve got this figured out"-- One of the things we’re discovering as our faculty literally go all over the world, is that we have so much to be taught from there.
We learn far more when we go into those cultural settings than anything we bring, and what we bring is merely a catalyst of encouragement. But we leave with significant changes in our perspectives and worldviews because we’ve chosen to listen to and understand what God is up to within that cultural context in order to make a difference.
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