What's New in Instructional Technologies

 Wimba  Online Conferencing tool.   http://www.wimba.com
  • online anonymous polling
  • voice over the internet -- great for having remote guest speakers or remote student presentations
  • application sharing -- a remote student can demonstrate something on their computer such as a Word document, a PowerPoint presentation, an Excel spreadsheet, etc.
  • "hand-raise" icons, ordered
  • text chat

Wimba at MSUM

SynchronEyes

 

Apple Remote Desktop

Classroom Management Software for laptop/ computerized classrooms
Wikis Web software designed for collaboration. 
Web sites that allow "open" editing --  users can add / edit content without a password, etc.
Link to Collaborate

Wiki and Blog server at MSUM

Blogs

 

  • Blog searching:   http://www.technorati.com  (has about 2 billion links, 27.5 million sites)
  • Free hosted blog services
Web-Based Social tools
  • del.icio.us  (shared bookmarks)
  • FaceBook  (online directory that connects people at schools -- college and high school) www.facebook.com  
  • Flickr  (photo-sharing -- can annotate individual parts of the photographs also)
PodCasting Provides ability to deliver text, audio, and video files to portable devices (laptops, iPods, MP3 players, cell phones, etc.)

 

Open Courseware Courses / course materials available on the web (free)
Personal Web Filing
  • FURL:  http://www.furl.net/  (social online bookmarking
    • saves URL and a picture of the page)
    • searchable