e-Teaching Symposium at the University of Illinois at Chicago, External Education


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e-Teaching Symposium

Thank You For Attending e-Teaching Symposium: Synchronous Learning in the Virtual Classroom

Our fourth e-Teaching Symposium of the academic year was held on Tuesday, April 24, 2007.

Streaming files of the symposium are available:

Symposium Overview
Synchronous, or real-time, communication is beginning to show itself to be a popular technology in online education and with the merging of Web and audio/video delivery formats that are successful and affordable; it has become a highly popular trend. UIC offers its faculty, students and staff a variety of methods to participate in an online or blended classroom in a synchronous manner. In our symposium, Edward J. Campbell, from UIC 's Instructional Technology Lab, provided an overview of some of the latest technology available within the Blackboard Learning Management System as well as other applications for synchronous learning that are not within Blackboard. The overview included:

- Centra Symposium (e-Rooms), the chat and virtual classroom within Blackboard
- A new instant chat application, "Pronto", that works inside Blackboard
- An overview of live streaming on the Internet.

e-Rooms is a Web-based collaboration server that allows for real-time communication with several remote locations. This seamless application supports a wide range of different communication modalities including audio chat (VoIP), text chat, application sharing, real-time polling, video and Websafaris.

At the symposium Ed Campbell showed how to:

- Request space for an e-Rooms session and properly use the software to connect with remote individuals
- Install and use Pronto, a new instant chat software synched up with Blackboard.
- Utilize the communication tools in Blackboard (Virtual Classroom & Chat).

About the Presenter
Edward J. Campbell
Edward Campbell works full-time as a Web design and multimedia specialist at the Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago . Edward's primary responsibility is in building multimedia rich Web and CD driven applications, as well as assisting faculty with educational technology. Edward Campbell received his B.A. in Biological Premedical Illustration from Iowa State University . While pursuing his masters degree, he worked part-time in the ITL at the University of Illinois at Chicago . He graduated from UIC with an M.S. in Biomedical Visualization with an emphasis in computer technology.

Contact
For further details regarding this event, please contact External Education at (312) 355-0423 or by e-mail at externaledu@uic.edu.

Related Information

UIC Faculty and Staff interested in presenting at an e-Teaching symposium should contact Emilie Wagner.

Faculty who would like curriculum support in developing an online or blended course can contact Anne France in External Education. Using a team approach, External Education will partner with UIC's Instructional Technology Lab to identify the best solutions for developing a new online course or taking an existing course and developing an online section.