Wimba Classroom
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If you are teaching a course, you already have access to this tool within your course on Blackboard. If you are a member of Calvin's staff, contact the CIT Help Desk at helpdesk@calvin.edu or at 526-8555 and request that a Wimba Classroom be set up for you, your group or for your department.
With Wimba Classroom educators can combine interactive technologies with instructional best practices. Capabilities such as support of audio, video, application sharing, and content display are just the starting point of Wimba Classroom. Advanced features such as polling, whiteboarding, presenter on-the-fly, resizable chat areas and participant lists, usage analytics tools, and MP3 downloads enable further dynamic interaction between students and educators.
With Wimba Classroom, you can:
- Host guest lecturers virtually from around the globe
- Host virtual committee or other group meetings (400-500 people can attend simultaneously)
- Produce recorded lectures, explanations, clarifications on assignments, etc...for students
- Offer virtual office hours, group study sessions and Web-based tutoring
- Create and participate in professional development opportunities
- Lower Calvin's environmental footprint
- Meet with prospective students via the Internet
- Collaborate online via an interactive whiteboard or share applications
- Build your worldwide network of colleagues and peers
- Significantly reduce travel costs
- Use USB-based videocameras and microphones with no usage costs
- And much more...
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Note: Calvin ranks first among the top 40 baccalaureate institutions in the nation for the total # of students who study abroad in a given year*, hosting programs in Spain, Honduras, China, France, Ghana, Hungary, the Netherlands, Mexico, Great Britain &
Thailand (in addition to Interim opportunities).
* 2008 edition of the Open Doors report |
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