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Creating cost effective online environments for collaborative teaching and learning!

Creating cost effective online environments for collaborative teaching and learning!

From live online classes and podcasting to voice boards and instant messaging, now K-12 and higher education institutions throughout the country that use Moodle can easily add the collaborative elements that will make their online classes come alive.

Wimba and Moodlerooms have combined their innovative technologies, expertise, and services to provide your institution with an affordable collaboration solution that meets synchronous and asynchronous learning needs.

Originally Aired: Spring 2009

Presented by: Michael Penney, Western Regional Director of Moodlerooms and Moodle Hat, and Matt Wasowski, Wimba

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Increasing Enrollment by Using Collaborative Online Technology

Increasing Enrollment by Using Collaborative Online Technology

Rick Bebout and his colleagues use Wimba Classroom and other online technologies to inform prospective graduate students about the IMC Master's program at WVU. Wimba Classroom is used to provide an in-depth overview of the program, including the application process, admission, curriculum and course technology. Join Bebout as he explains his team's methods of using technology to attract new students to his program.

Originally Aired: Spring 2009

Presented by: Rick Bebout, West Virginia University

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Tennessee & Southeast United States ‘Brown Bag’ Webinar: Best Practices in Online Instruction

Tennessee & Southeast United States ‘Brown Bag’ Webinar: Best Practices in Online Instruction

Learn how Hollyanna White, Specialist, On-Line Learning, and her colleagues at Chattanooga State Technical Community College use the Wimba Collaboration Suite for a variety of instructional and non-instructional purposes such as presenting technology training through archives and using Wimba Classroom as a helpdesk. Then learn how Kathrine Bailey and her team at Austin Peay - long time users of Wimba - have seen successful results when it comes to engaging their online students.

Originally Aired: Spring 2009

Presented by: Hollyanna White, Specialist, On-Line Learning, Chattanooga State Technical Community College & Kathrine Bailey, Multimedia Specialist, Austin Peay State University


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Going Green with Online Technology: Supporting Campus Sustainability Initiatives

Going Green with Online Technology: Supporting Campus Sustainability Initiatives

In April, 2008 UNT became the first major Texas public university to sign the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment with an ultimate goal of becoming climate neutral. Secondly and more immediately pressing on a personal level, gas prices began to soar! Following these events, the campus became more focused on finding green alternatives to driving. This presentation describes how Wimba Classroom is playing a role in helping the UNT community take immediate steps to reduce strain on fuel budgets and support a larger university goal in becoming carbon neutral. Included are challenges anyone may face in implementing a new technology such as Wimba Classroom on their campus as well as ways to identify opportunities, and strategies for roll-out.

Originally Aired: Spring 2009

Presented by: Jane Himmel, University of North Texas


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Wimba North Carolina: Collaboration and Connections for 21st-Century Students and Educators

Wimba North Carolina: Collaboration and Connections for 21st-Century Students and Educators

Learn now the North Carolina Virtual Public School collaborates for everything from staff meetings to professional development. The team members began a "coursing" and "collaborative tools" strategy that is nationally unique to K-12 education.

Originally Aired: Spring 2009

Presented by: Bryan Setser, CEO, North Carolina Virtual Public School


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Using Online Technology for Disaster Preparation and Recovery

Using Online Technology for Disaster Preparation and Recovery

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, several nursing classes at the LSU Health Sciences Center relied on Wimba and other online course technologies to help teach its students despite some being displaced and despite some campus buildings being completely non-operational.  Join Mr. Glenn Ruiz as he gives a first-hand account of the creative ways which allowed several courses to thrive.  You will also learn several other examples of schools that have used similar technologies to plan for pandemics and survive fires and floods.  Hopefully this presentation will spark ideas for your own disaster preparedness plans.

Originally Aired: Spring 2009

Presented by: Glenn Ruiz, Louisiana State University School of Health Sciences

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SHE - Simulations in Higher Education

SHE - Simulations in Higher Education

This session demonstrates examples of simulations that use a mixture of web technologies, social networking and virtual worlds. In particular, it discusses in detail a simulation that enables groups of law students to work as partners in simulated law practices in a virtual town that supports a range of casework. It also showcases an accident investigation simulation built in the virtual world Second Life where groups of students can experience an accident scenario, investigate it, design safe systems of work to deal with the case and work collaboratively on accident analysis and prevention.

Originally Aired: Summer 2009

Presented by: Manuel Frutos-Perez & Dr. Liz Falconer, University of West of England - Bristol


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Statewide Professional Development Through A Virtual Classroom To Save Thousands Of Dollars

Statewide Professional Development Through A Virtual Classroom To Save Thousands Of Dollars

This presentation will cover a comprehensive plan for statewide professional development that the Idaho Digital Learning Academy is providing to Idaho Educators, and how Wimba Classroom has been an integral part of that plan. The presentation explores aspects of needs assessment, communication process of available resources, training and educating internal and external stakeholders, implementation, and evaluation. Learn how the Idaho Digital Learning Academy has used Wimba Classroom as a tool to open statewide communications to connect various statewide educational organizations and all state educators. Presenter Mike Caldwell has been associated with the Idaho Digital Learning Academy since February, 2003 and had been an educator in Idaho for over 10 years. Mike is the Director of Supervision and Development at the Idaho Digital Learning Academy.

Originally Aired: Summer 2009

Presented by: Donna Hutchison & Mike Caldwell, Idaho Digital Learning Academy


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Designing Significant eLearning and Blended Learning Experiences: Training Tomorrow’s eTeachers

Designing Significant eLearning and Blended Learning Experiences: Training Tomorrow’s eTeachers

Higher education is being transformed by the millennial learner, learning technologies, and the evolution of the Learning Paradigm with a different mission, purpose, criteria for success and learning structures (Barr & Tagg, 2000). Ken Bain challenges teachers to create "authentic tasks that arouse curiosity and become intrinsically interesting," (p. 99) engage students to reason and ask probing and insightful questions. This session presented a case study of the integration of Wimba in an online collaborative e-learning experience with an on-site institute.

Originally Aired: Summer 2009

Presented by: Rebekah Grow & Linda Ralston, University of Utah



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Why Can’t Suzie Write?: Designing a Writing Program for the At-Risk Student

Why Can’t Suzie Write?: Designing a Writing Program for the At-Risk Student

With almost half of all students entering college needing remediation to bring them up to college level reading and writing, many colleges are struggling to support at-risk students. Originally Aired: Fall 2009

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Expanding Curriculum and Improving Outcomes in Quebec

Expanding Curriculum and Improving Outcomes in Quebec



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Wimba Study Break: Transitioning from Face to Face to Online Instruction

Wimba Study Break: Transitioning from Face to Face to Online Instruction

Even though most schools have transitioned some aspects of their in-classroom instruction to the online environment, there are still so many ways to do so effectively. Learn from two customers who have successfully helped their faculty make the leap. Join Gary Shouppe of Columbus State University (GA) as he replicated a face-to-face (f2f) masters degree program into an online degree program, and then hear from Cliff Eberhardt of Central Michigan University as he explains how using Wimba and Blackboard have helped ease faculty into online instruction because they feel it's easy for them to create effective online courses.

Originally aired: Fall 2009

Presented by: Gary Shouppe, Columbus State University & Cliff Eberhardt, Central Michigan University

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Strategies for Employer Engagement – Evaluating the potential of Web 2.0 for enhancing teaching de

Strategies for Employer Engagement – Evaluating the potential of Web 2.0 for enhancing teaching de

Following the Leitch report in 2004 – a review of the UK's long-term skills' needs – it was recognised that UK Business and Management students would be increasingly work-based, and that a blend of institutional and Web 2.0 technologies would be needed to support these students more effectively. This session explores how the Winchester Business School, at the University of Winchester, and Logica, a global IT company, worked together to design a sponsored degree programme and to develop an enhanced learning environment for undergraduates following the scheme. Although it was felt that Web 2.0 technologies had an important learning and support role, we realised that this role was not well understood. In the project we sought to develop an integrated approach to creating a learning environment by fully (and appropriately) exploiting institutional systems and Web 2.0 technologies, including Wimba. At the same time, we encouraged students to develop their own social learning networks.

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I Love (Wimba) CATs: Using Wimba Classroom to Bridge Online and Face-to-Face Learning and Assessment

I Love (Wimba) CATs: Using Wimba Classroom to Bridge Online and Face-to-Face Learning and Assessment

Thomas Angelo's classroom assessment techniques (CATs) have long been recognized as the best approach to evaluate learning. But, these techniques were very difficult, if not impossible, to replicate in the online learning environment - until now! Wimba Classroom gives faculty several tools to engage online learners synchronously and to evaluate learning in real-time. This is a tremendous advancement to the online learning environment because faculty and students can engage one another in a give-and-take manner that replicates the spontaneity and familiarity of the face-to-face classroom. Experienced online faculty and students enjoy the enhanced learning environment, while novice faculty and students are relieved to have immediate interaction with one another. During this presentation, participants will be introduced to specific examples of Angelo's classroom assessment techniques (CATs) that can be replicated in Wimba Classroom and will receive a brief review of the pedagogical function of these CATs. Then, participants will learn how to integrate Angelo's CATs into their PowerPoint presentations using the eBoard, Survey tool, and Breakout Rooms in Wimba Classroom. With these tools, faculty can assess student perspectives and address their misconceptions in a way that fosters higher-learning outcomes. This approach to learning becomes even more powerful when coupled with Wimba Classroom's Archive feature, which allows students to review the session as often as they want, gaining insight into academic topics and reflecting on their learning process.

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Increase Engagement in Online Courses

Increase Engagement in Online Courses

The more students are engaged, the higher the likelihood they'll succeed. Hear first-hand examples from the AVP of Instructional Technology Support at Drexel University, Marshall University's CIO, and a Dean at Winchester Business School.



Originally Aired: January 2010



Presented by: Mike Scheuermann, AVP of Instructional Technology Support at Drexel University, Allen Taylor, CIO of Marshall University, & Neil Marriott, Dean, Faculty of Business, Law, and Sport at Winchester Business School

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Approaches to Organizing and Offering Blended Courses

Approaches to Organizing and Offering Blended Courses

This session will explore blended courses. Blended courses use elements of online learning within a more traditional style course. Their presentation will illustrate and examine various approaches to organizing and offering blended courses.


Originally Aired: January 2010


Presented by: Robert L. Blomeyer, Ph.D. is President and Co-founder of Online Teaching Associates, Ltd. & Caroline St.Clair, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at North Central College

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Bringing In Local and Global Guest Speakers through Wimba

Bringing In Local and Global Guest Speakers through Wimba

Technology in Wimba can be a convenient and inexpensive tool to bring in guest speakers to maximize student engagement and learning experience. One Chico instructor taught a group of 72 students in Soci354 Interethnic Contact class in spring 2009 with one third of the class attending on campus and the rest through Wimba classroom. After students learned about basic theories, the class moved on to learn various case studies about ethnic relations around the world including the ethnic conflicts in Yugoslavia. She brought in two guest speakers whose lectures on Yugoslavia had added invaluable elements to the course. Both lectures could not have been arranged without the technology of Wimba Classroom. The first guest speaker, Dr. Kate Tranchel, who is a professor at Chico State came in person. Dr. Tranchel had to teach another class the same time as the guest lecture. To solve the conflict, Dr. Tranchel brought in her students who watched the live broadcasting of the lecture through Wimba in a different room. The second guest speaker was Mr. Savo Heleta who is the author of one of the required textbooks in the same course, Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia. Through Wimba Classroom, Mr. Heleta gave a lecture to the students and answered their questions all the way from South Africa. Both on- campus students and distance students were able to communicate with the guest speakers during the two events. Students' response to both events was overwhelmingly positive. The first guest lecture by Dr. Tranchel inspired my students to take teaching with them to start the change with themselves. The second guest lecture by Mr. Heleta helped to put a human face behind the textbook. Students' interest and involvement in the course had been greatly enhanced after talking with the book author. Both events have dramatically maximized students' learning and engagement in the course. During course feedbacks, many students indicated that the two lectures were among the most unforgettable moments during their whole college education. I will share my experience and thoughts on using Wimba to bring in guest speakers at the conference.

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Wimba Study Break: How Collaboration Fuels Successful Online Programs in Florida

Wimba Study Break: How Collaboration Fuels Successful Online Programs in Florida

Join David Shulman of Broward College as he shares anecdotal evidence about how collaboration software has provided an excellent means for online faculty to connect and support students. He'll discuss specific examples ranging from how mathematics faculty have the ability to demonstrate problems and work in real-time with online students, to how online voice collaboration supports multiple online language labs and ESL. Kim Manning of Tallahassee Community College will then provide valuable insight into how Wimba Voice and Voice Announcements have brought a personal and interactive touch to online courses.

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Online Faculty Development Programs

Online Faculty Development Programs

Since 2008, Northern Illinois University (NIU) has been delivering monthly online faculty development workshops to faculty, staff, and teaching assistants using Wimba Classroom. These sessions have included a wide array of pedagogical and technical topics, ranging from presentations using the interactive eBoard to discuss best practices for teaching using detailed step-by-step instructions consisting of application sharing of the presenter's desktop demonstrating tips for teaching with Blackboard. All sessions are archived and posted online at http://www.niu.edu/facdev/programs/archives.shtml along with links to any referenced workshop materials for on-demand viewing afterwards. While these archives were available online for viewing 24/7, some notable drawbacks still existed. Those unable to participate in the live sessions who wished to view recorded sessions needed to remember to revisit the website to see when new archives are available. In addition, recorded sessions could only be viewed online via a computer as increasing use of mobile media players make it possible for such content to be experienced while on the go. With the release of Wimba Classroom 6.0, faculty can now have their cake and eat it too! The expanded archive capabilities of Wimba Classroom 6.0 has made it possible for NIU to not only continue to provide archived online faculty development sessions online but also create a podcast of archived online faculty development programs available in iTunes where exported MP4 archives in podcast format are published for faculty to view anytime, anywhere on their mobile media player. These resulting podcast archives including application sharing and eBoard content are amazingly clear when viewing on an iPod or iPhone. All this is possible without much additional technical know-how on the part of faculty development staff and archives can easily be searched and accessed from within iTunes either on a computer, iPod Touch, or iPhone as well as from any other podcast aggregator of choice. This session will share NIU's journey offering live online faculty development workshops using Wimba Classroom as well as making online workshop archives available for on-demand viewing either online, in iTunes, or on a mobile device. Emphasis will be placed on NIU's step-by-step workflow for using the MP4 archive download capabilities in Wimba Classroom 6.0 to deliver archived online faculty development programs in podcast form that faculty can subscribe to in iTunes and receive automatically on their computer or portable media player, including iPod or iPhone. The presentation will include considerations for hosting archives outside Wimba Classroom as well as the steps necessary to create a podcast RSS feed, submit to the iTunes store, and update the necessary files when a new MP4 archive from Wimba Classroom is available. Also learn how Rasmussen College utilizes of a virtual scoring of student portfolios as a medium for faculty development showing "non-instructional" use of Wimba Classroom. Through the use of Wimba Classroom/Breakout Rooms, learn how the virtual process makes the development opportunity accessible and valuable for participating, geographically-dispersed faculty members, thus, fostering professional enrichment and team camaraderie. Participants can expect to be actively involved in the session to gain exposure and knowledge of the process while evaluating a rubric for use in their own classroom.

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Wimba Study Break: Accessible Collaboration in the Online Classroom

Wimba Study Break: Accessible Collaboration in the Online Classroom

Two years ago, Dr. Sam Slike and a colleague of his at Bloomsburg University won the USDLA national distance learning teaching award because of their innovative use of Wimba to teach deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Join Dr. Slike as we learn about his latest accessibility teaching work. Also, Valerie Haven of UMass Boston will share how she set-up closed captioning to stream through the accessible Wimba Classroom interface to make it possible for a deaf and blind student to read the captioning on her Braille keyboard while also using JAWS (text to speech) to read the text chat and to communicate with her instructor and classmates.

Originally Aired: Summer 2010

Presented by: Dr. Sam Slike, Bloomsburg University & Valerie Haven, UMass Boston

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Economic & Environmental Savings of Wimba and Online Education

Economic & Environmental Savings of Wimba and Online Education

The University of Georgia's Cooperative Extension has been using Wimba Classroom to deliver training sessions in an online environment. This has allowed Extension personnel to overcome common constraints such as: limited travel budgets, rising fuel costs, and time spent away from county offices and local clientele. This archive discusses the: 1) Economic benefits in terms of travel dollars and travel time gained, as well as 2) Environmental impact of reducing statewide travel.

Originally Aired: Fall 2008

Presented by Janet Sylvia & Robert Ethier Jr., University of Georgia

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Save Time, Money, and even the Environment with Wimba

Save Time, Money, and even the Environment with Wimba

As we all closely monitor the economy, did you know that institutions worldwide are already saving in many different ways with Wimba? Today, schools are saving time, money, and even the environment by utilizing the Wimba Collaboration Suite. Join Wimba's Matt Wasowski for a special presentation about how Wimba customers worldwide are saving - and sometimes even making - money and time with Wimba.

Originally Aired: Fall 2008

Presented by: Matt Wasowski, Wimba

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Providing Equal Access of Information to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Online Courses

Providing Equal Access of Information to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Online Courses

Dr. Sam Slike, a professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, discusses his use of Wimba to provide college courses to deaf and hard of hearing students. His innovative courses use a sign language interpreter broadcast through a web cam (and simultaneously broadcast via a Sorenson videophone); closed captioning of spoken lecture material via Caption Colorado; PowerPoint slides; text chat; and spoken lecture. His presentation will provide an overview of the deaf/hh population; general challenges encountered in providing equal access of information for this group of individuals; and creating an online course for deaf/hh and hearing students using Wimba as the delivery tool.

Originally Aired: Spring 2008

Presented by: Dr. Sam Slike & Pam Berman, Bloomsburg University

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Texas & Louisiana ‘Brown Bag’ Webinar: Best Practices in Online Instruction

Texas & Louisiana ‘Brown Bag’ Webinar: Best Practices in Online Instruction

Jane Himmel from the University of North Texas and Glenn Ruiz from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Nursing discuss how their respective institutions achieve Distance Learning 2.0 goals and help teach Nursing to working students throughout the state.  According to Himmel, meeting online for classes or meetings can be extremely effective in terms of maximizing attedance and quality of information.  In fact, UNT even has a green initiative that relies heavily on Wimba to help the environment.  Ruiz will discuss the numerous ways LSUHSC's Nursing department has been able to cleverly utilize Wimba Classroom to teach both potential and working nurses throughout Louisana, even after Hurricane Katrina.

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Western States ‘Brown Bag’ Webinar: Best Practices in Online Instruction Using Wimba

Western States ‘Brown Bag’ Webinar: Best Practices in Online Instruction Using Wimba

Without giving away too much of what they'll be discussing at Wimba Connect 2009, Cory Stokes of the Utah Education Network will share how the entire state of Utah has been able to implement the Wimba Collaboration Suite, while Diane Stonebrink of Estrella Mountain College and Peter Lafford of Arizona State discuss the many ways that Wimba Voice is used in a variety of disciplines - particularly foreign language and ESL instruction - at their respective institutions.

Originally Aired: December 2008

Presented by: Cory Stokes, Utah Education Network; Diane Stonebrink, Estrella Mountain College; & Peter Lafford, Arizona State University

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How Using Wimba Supports Cognitive Processes Resulting in Higher Retention Rates

How Using Wimba Supports Cognitive Processes Resulting in Higher Retention Rates

One of the world's leading experts when it comes to online instruction, Lisa Frazier of rural Nevada's Great Basin College has found that visual and audible elements in online courses significantly improve school retention rates and student performance. Learn from Lisa's research and how it can be applied to your own distance learning programs.

Originally Aired: Fall 2008

Presented by: Lisa Frazier, MED, Curriculum Development Specialist/ Instructional Technologist, Great Basin College

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Virtual Worlds: Teaching in Second Life for Higher Education

Virtual Worlds: Teaching in Second Life for Higher Education

A growing trend in education is the use of virtual worlds to complement or replace physical and web-based classrooms.  With the availability of services like "Second Life", the barrier to entry is being lowered dramatically.   This presentation will examine the strengths and challenges of using  Second Life from two perspectives and two institutions:  a faculty member using SL to teach Business concepts at University of Northern Iowa and an educational developer supporting Nursing faculty and students who use SL at Cal State Chico. Please join us as we explore effective practices in use and deployment of Virtual Worlds.
Originally Aired: Spring 2009
Presented by: LCIN Group

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Measuring the Effectiveness of Virtual School Programs – Research and Beyond

Measuring the Effectiveness of Virtual School Programs – Research and Beyond

Based on a presentation that Pape gave at the BbWorld 2007 conference with Donna Vakili, Executive Director, Idaho Digital Learning Academy and Becky Nunally of Cobb County eSchool, this presentation will discuss the evolution of two virtual school program evaluation processes and the need for ongoing research on measures of effectiveness of online programs. Liz Pape, Virtual High School Global Consortium, and Matt Wicks, Illinois Virtual High School, will discuss how to measure the effectiveness of your online program, including what measures to use and when to measure. Learn about the necessity for a "common language" of program effectiveness and see examples of data-driven and self-reported indicators of effectiveness.

Originally Aired: Spring 2008

Presented by: Liz R. Pape, CEO, Virtual High School & Matt Wicks

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Lecture Capture with Wimba

Lecture Capture with Wimba

Instructors at CSU, Chico have taught classes that met to face-to-face but simultaneously had students logged in remotely via Wimba Classroom. For years, instructors at CSU, Chico have taught classes that met to face-to-face but simultaneously had students logged in remotely via Wimba Classroom. These remote students were able to see the face-to-face teacher via video and a student assistant even took remote students' questions. This created a full classroom experience for both the in-person and the remote students - while also providing a unique way to capture lectures via Wimba Classroom.

Originally Aired: Winter 2008

Presented by:Ann Steckel, TLP Instructional Technology Consultant & Laura Sederberg, Technology & Learning Program Manager, CSU, Chico

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