Welcome and Introduction!

Please introduce yourself and let us know a little bit more about what you do and how you use Blackboard Collaborate.

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Permalink Reply by Margaret Cussen on April 25, 2012 at 9:32am

Greetings!

My name is Margaret Cussen Instructional Designer for a small 2 year college in Texas. We currently use Collaborate outside of Blackboard for meetings, course reviews (based on QM criteria) consensus meetings and tomorrow will be sponsoring a college virtual open house for prospective online students. 

A limited number of instructors are using Collaborate in Blackboard to record class activities & lectures. Some are fond of the Wimba Suite & reluctant to switch. Officially, Bb Collaborate will be the only option 1 January 2013. 

So, at the moment, I'm looking for ways to influence our faculty to take the leap & switch to Collaborate! 

Permalink Reply by Tammy Moore on April 28, 2012 at 5:38am

Welcome Margaret. I hope your virtual open house went well. I bet the reluctance to switch is because resources have been designed to fit the other suite and the learning curve when you are busy can be daunting for any new software. I bet once they get their feet wet, they will love it. :0)

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ricketts on May 4, 2012 at 2:51am

Hi, my name is Sarah and I have been managing the use of web conferencing technologies in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford (UK) for about 8 years now. We started using Wimba Live Classroom at the start, and have since moved over to Elluminate Live and now Blackboard Collaborate.  The use of the products has been so successful that we're now applying the knowledge to expend to the rest of the University so it is an exciting/challenging time here!  We currently use Elluminate Live to support our Distance Learning taught programmes, but we are planning a move to Blackboard Collaborate supporting Undergrad and Postgrad in all sorts of interesting ways - with hopefully some knowledge sharing on here.

Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on May 4, 2012 at 7:51am

Welcome, Sarah.  Great to have you here.

Permalink Reply by Kamel Echikh on May 23, 2012 at 11:42pm

Hi!

I am Kamel Echikh, an ELT specialist in Tunisia. I have been doing this job for two years (not a great deal). This job consists mainly in evaluating English teachers' work in class, training teachers and innovating in pedagogy. I am interested in sharing ideas related to my specialty to develop professionally. I hope that Blackboard Collaborate helps me achieve this goal.

Regards

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