Jason Rhode, Ph.D.

I’m currently preparing for an online workshop I’m leading on Thu., Oct. 16th from 12-1pm CDT entitled, “Conducting Online Office Hours Using Wimba Classroom.”  Here’s the description of the session:

Whether teaching in a traditional face-to-face, hybrid, or online course, offering optional office hours provides students with the opportunity to seek further clarification and assistance, enriching the learning experience. The Wimba Classroom online collaboration suite is one technology that integrates seamlessly with Blackboard and can be utilized to offer online office hours, allowing students to communicate in real time with faculty at a mutually convenient time and location. This online workshop will provide a brief introduction of Wimba Classroom and explore best practices of conducting online office hours using Wimba Classroom.

Anyone else interested in joining us for this session?  Drop me an email at jrhode@niu.edu and I can provide the login information to join us.

Faculty who utilize the Wimba Classroom tool within Blackboard may want to invite a guest speaker to participate in a synchronous online session. It is possible to enable guest access to a Wimba Classroom so that a guest speaker can participate in a Wimba Classroom session without having an NIU AccountID or password.

This new 4 minute tutorial that I recorded highlights the steps to enabling guest access to a Wimba Classroom.The free QuickTime player is required. It is also available on YouTube or as a podcast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYMnOv96rE