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>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:45:09 -0600
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>From: Ed Garay <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8764.7 (!) Wimba Classroom or Voice
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We also use and like Wimba Voice, and find it extremely easy to use.
Threaded discussion voice boards (public or private) are very nice, but so
is the ability to easily create voice recordings and audio podcasts by
simply speaking into the microphone, uploading and downloading audio files,
posting voice announcements and sending out voice emails.
Wimba Voice works nicely with PCs and Macs; the tools are nicely integrated
with Blackboard and WebCT, and Wimba has been working on integrating them
with other learning management systems.
--- Ed Garay
University of Illinois at Chicago
> >Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:07:13 -0800
> >From: "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: #8764.3-6 (!) Wimba Classroom or Voice
>
>One nice feature of the Wimba Voice Board that I appreciate, is the
>ability to create private threads. This way I can post a message that
>all the students can hear and they reply to my message. Their reply to
>me and my subsequent reply to them with corrections and a grade (in the
>text area) are private. This way, students can have personalized,
>private feedback. I can go through all the student postings from one
>screen with a minimum of clicks.
>
>I use Wimba Voice Boards with public threads as well, so that students
>can interact remotely.
>
>We've been using Wimba for about a year and it has proven to be much
>easier for me to explain to them how to use Wimba correctly, than it was
>to explain Audacity. (Especially since students were using Audacity at
>home and had to download it as well as the the LAME files.)
>
>Carol
>
>Carol H. Reitan
>Technology Learning Center
>Instructor of French
>City College of San Francisco
>50 Phelan Avenue, LB2
>San Francisco, CA 94112
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>(3) from Tim VanSlyke <[log in to unmask]> ---
>
>We use Wimba at our school, but if I understood you correctly, I don't
>think
>it offers the flexibility you're seeking. For student recording you
>basically have two choices with Wimba, either voice email or voice
>discussion board. In neither case can the instructor stop the recording
>and
>insert comments unless he/she downloads the file as an MP3 or WAV file
>then
>imports it into something like Audacity.
>
>
>Timothy VanSlyke, ESL Instructor in the Multimedia Language Center
>Chemeketa Community College
>4000 Lancaster Dr. NE, P.O. Box 14007, Salem, OR 97309
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>(4) from [log in to unmask]
>
>Hi,
>
>we have been extensively used the Voice E-mail tool that allows
>students to send private (or to the entire class) voice e-mails and
>the faculty to reply to them in text an with voice comments. There is
>also another tool, Voice Board, that allows student to post messages
>that can be heard by the instructor and commented either in person, by
>a voice/text message.
>
>Marisa
>
>(5) from [log in to unmask]
>
>Our department uses Wimba, delivered from Blackboard. It has helped us a
>lot.
>Good quality, simplicity (I could not teach students to use audacity,
>without a
>lot of complaints). The quality is not quite as good at the lower level,
>and I m
>discovering how many of my students have cheap ill-equipped PCs and
>phone modems
>at home. Of course all of this is a reason why ALL of our lower-level
>students
>in ALL languages are required to come to lab. Many of the University-run
>card-access labs are not set up right for the frivolous things we do in
>FL
>(which do not involve floating point calculations, chaos physics or
>spread
>sheets). Three of us in the department are going to discuss our use and
>the
>organizing of activities around Wimbs at the West Tennessee Technology
>Symposium
>in early March.
>
>We do have a whole lot more going on, ussing TTS apps, etc. in something
>called
>"learning objects" (Wimba is also integrated here).
>
>Wimba: so far, great results...no analog junk around here.
>
>TBob
>
>Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D
>Professor of French
>Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
>Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
>Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project
>Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library
>Department of Modern Foreign Languages
>Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238
>Email: [log in to unmask]
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>(6) from [log in to unmask]
>
>Jeanne,
>
>The feedback on wimba, and I'm assuming you are talking about the oral
>assessment builder module in the voice tools that works like a
>language lab with instructor created activities, works such that the
>student must save their work first. It isn't until after that when the
>instructor then logs in and listens to what the student saved and
>posted to the wimba server that they can then record a personalized
>comment. Once the instructor assigns a grade, then the student can go
>back in and listen to what the instructor stated.
>
>It really doesn't change the way the software works as to whether you
>are doing this from a lab or at home from a distance.
>
>One thing you should know however, is that WImba recently purchased
>another assessment tool that is currently in development. The oral
>assessment builder, from what I have been told (and we are still using
>it extensively) will eventually be replaced with a new tool. No date
>at this point. They also told me while they provide support for the
>current tool they are not investing in upgrades or bug fixes on it.
>That said, we are relatively happy with any work arounds we have had
>to make at this point.
>
>Lauren
>
>
>
>
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