Enhancing Online Teaching with

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Enhancing Online Teaching with
Wimba, Elluminate, SAM/CaseGrader, and Captivate
By Edna Fry and Kathy Hamby
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How We Started

• Conducted Deans Forum using WebCT
• Survey of Internet courses and Student
  Satisfaction
• Included 17 Discussion questions
• Survey

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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

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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

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Student and Instructor Frustration
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Interactive Component

• Pro
• Immediate clarification
• Encourage interaction

• Cons
• Required chats/sessions detract from the
  anywhere, anytime advantages

..you dont have to wait for several hours or
even days for a reply to your question or
response.
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What we did
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Applications used

• Wimba/Horizon
• Elluminate
• SAM/CaseGrader
• Exams
• Projects
• Adobe Captivate

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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

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Wimba/Horizon

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

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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
  System
• Just like any other component
• Podcasting

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Student messages
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Wimba Live Classroom
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With Archive features
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Podcast Weekly News
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• Demo
• Kathy Hamby

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• Elluminate.com

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Demo Edna Fry
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Use of Sam Projects, Assessment, and CaseGrader
in Online and Hybrid Courses
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Demo SAM Edna Fry
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Demo CourseGraderEdna Fry
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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/?
  viewtopnew

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How can you use it?

• Can be used for Internet courses
• Traditional Courses
• Hybrid Courses

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Automatically generated when you create a
Captivate demonstration

• Mouse path
• Visual mouse clicks
• Explanations
• Standard playback controls

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With these capabilities

• Adding Videos
• Incorporates PowerPoint presentations
• Full motion
• Simulations with feedbackquiz your students on
  concepts

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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 dont get?
• Mine was

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Guess how many times Ive had to say this?
There is no Student CD!!!
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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?

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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

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Minutes to create or longer

• Use existing Power Points
• Point and Clickquick and dirty
• Animated text and pictures
• Incorporate movies and sound
• Only creates 2 files to upload
• Swf
• Htmlthis file is incorporated into WebCT

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Captivate New Project
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Captivate Recording Tool
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Captivate Publishing
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Captivate Demo and Tips Link-Kathy Hamby

• http//www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/?trackingid
  ZOGA

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• Thank You!
• Questions?
• Governors State University
• http//www.govst.edu
• Edna Fry
• e-fry_at_govst.edu
• Kathy Hamby
• k-hamby_at_govst.edu