News & Updates
Wimba Project Receives Funding
Several faculty and staff pilot tested Wimba Live Classroom and Wimba Voice
in their distance education and face-to-face classes during FY09. Feedback
was positive and uses ranged from web meetings, face-to-face distance education
classes, student meeting space for projects, and faculty office hours for distance
education students. Wimba is a suite of of synchronous collaboration tools
to WebCT, including a presentation environment, whiteboard, student chat, video,
and desktop application sharing. Live Classroom and Pronto are available to
all WebCT course sections offered at Iowa State University. Learn more about the Wimba Project. Read Wimba Tools Newsletter. For more information contact Gaylan Scofield,
294-0045 or ggs@iastate.edu.
New Lecture Capture Technology
Distance Education faculty now have the ability to record, produce, and publish their lectures from any classroom on campus using Camtasia Relay. The Brenton Center will provide the production server and the necessary software that will be installed on faculty computers. For more information, contact the Brenton Center.
Distance Education Grants (effective 04-01-09)
Pod Cast Promotions
The Brenton Center provides free Pod Cast production to promote College of Agriculture & Life Science departmental research, recruitment activities, and distance education course promotions. Departments who have an interest should contact Amy Upah at 4-9732 or amyupah@iastate.edu to set a time to discuss your Pod Cast project.
