This training presentation on Wimba K-12 online delivery system represents what I see as the best in online learning.

1. Wimba Collaborative Suite A Distance Education Delivery System with K-12 Applications

2. Presented by Janet von Harz Pattonville Heights Middle School

4. Who is Wimba? Wimba is a company focused solely on education and dedicated to the principle that people learn more when they are drawn closer together. Their collaborative software applications for the online education market enable institutions to bridge technology and pedagogy by supplementing course management systems with many of the proven disciplines of in-person learning environments. Wimba's intuitive solutions enable educators and students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online, engage in live chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to text-based course content, and more. Instructors can also use Wimba solutions to easily convert Microsoft Word documents into online course content and to create and administer tests, quizzes, and exams. Wimba’s focus on education and collaboration with educators fuels their product development.

8. Product Comparison

9. 4 Components of the Collaborative Suite

10. Wimba Classroom Wimba Classroom allows faculty and students to build relationships by combining state-of-the-art interactive technologies such as voice, video, application sharing, polling, and whiteboarding, with traditional best practices of instruction. Now, enjoy the best elements of face-to-face and online instruction as faculty and students can talk to each other, express emotion, and feel as if they're part of a single community.

15. Wimba Create Before Wimba create allows users to quickly and easily convert Microsoft Word documents into content for Blackboard and WebCT courses. From one Word document you can generate a set of web pages that include navigation and interactive features which can quickly be uploaded to a course. Here is an example of a word document.

16. After Conversion... With just a click the document is now part of your web lesson. Wimba provides an online demonstration that illustrates just how easy the conversion is.

17. Wimba Pronto Wimba Pronto is a free instant messaging and voice chat tool that allows students and instructors to spontaneously meet live online at any time to discuss their coursework. Wimba Pronto works with course management systems like Blackboard and WebCT to automatically populate students’ contact lists with their classmates’ names, thereby making it easy for students to spontaneously collaborate live online. There is no charge for this tool only the requirement of a CMS.

25. In Conclusion As Pattonville explores the possibility of adding online classes for students, I believe that Wimba would be an excellent company to help us achieve our goals. I would also suggest that each member of this committee explore Wimba’s website at www.wimba.com and view the extensive array of demos to see for yourselves how innovative and user friendly the tools are.