WIMBA-Valerie+Jablonski

Technology Idea--WIMBA

A WIMBA is similar to a virtual classroom. I chose this technology because I think it will allow me to learn as many different technologies as possible and place them in a WIMBA page. This is a type of collaborative learning. Essentially, I would like to hold class on-line from home after I retire from formal teaching.

WIMBA is billed as a collaborative to Blackboard, which some of you may already have experience with. It has additional tools, including voiced email. Judy indicates she can use this to send emails to her students that they don't have to read, but can listen to. That would be wonderful for very beginning users, who cannot yet read as well as they speak.

My Idea: Rachel Wellman This would be great for older students, but as an elementary teacher I would probably not use it because my students would not have access to being onilne and also not know what they were doing. It was a great idea for my own learning and I like the fact you would use it for information you have learned.

My Idea: Lainey Bryde: I often wonder what to do with all of the information and files of papers that I acquire throughout my years of teaching and learning. This sounds like WIMBA may be a virtual realm where all of this information could be organized and stored, as well as, easily accessed by colleagues. However, I have never accessed it, so I may be way off :)

My Idea: Rebecca Gallardo The idea of posting links on a page would be great for my students when we have our computer station. Often times students accidentally close the website I had open for them and they never know how to get it back. If they could open one page and have all the useful links together, that would help them and save me from having to run over to help them every few minutes!