Web Collaboration Services
Wimba Basics
The Wimba web site provides resources to help you get started
Wimba for Higher Ed
Wimba is available through each institution’s Blackboard Vista course management system.
Wimba for K12
Wimba is now available through my.uen to K12 educators in Utah with Premium Status.
Learn more about the Wimba Classroom Portlet on my.uen.
Collaboration with Wimba
Weekly Wimba Webinar
When: Mondays
Time: 3:30 pm
Where: Online Webinar
You’ve heard about it, now click over to join in a virtual webinar about the Wimba tools available to Utah’s educators. UEN’s specialists demonstrate the basics and answer your questions.
Run the Wimba Setup Wizard prior to joining the Webinar
Utah K12 Wimba User Group Meeting
When: Tuesdays
Time: 3:30 pm
Where: K12 Wimba User Group's Virtual Meeting Room
Utah's K12 administrators, educators and staff meet weekly to learn more about utilizing Wimba in the K-12 public education environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Other tools allow teachers to easily post audio podcasts, audio email, and voice announcements on the web. Higher education users also have course authoring and instant messaging tools.
The Utah Education Network licenses the tool for educational use within Utah’s public schools, colleges and universities.
Fully interactive Wimba Classroom sessions work best using a computer with a high-speed internet connection, headphones, a USB microphone and a web camera. Basic meetings may simply use a browser and a telephone. Both the presenter and the participants must turn their browser's Pop-up Blocker off.
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WimBits
Participants calling into a Wimba event via telephone can mute their phone by pressing *6. Pressing *6 again will unmute the phone so they can speak to the room.
Creating Dynamic Online Learning Environments: Wimba Connects With Brain Research
What does the latest research on the physiology of the brain and the biology of learning have to say about effective online learning? This session will take a look at the works of James Zull and John Medina, relating the science of learning with examples of using Wimba to create effective online instruction.
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 12pm MST
Presented by:
Janice Butler, University of Texas at Brownsville