Elearning - June/July 2008 - (Page 47) NewProducts: Collaboration ration into coursework. Instructors can schedule, deliver and record classes using Elluminate Live! — the Internet-based, realtime e-learning tool that includes voice over the Internet, shared whiteboards, chat, breakout rooms, application sharing, import capabilities with PowerPoint presentation software, and more — all in a multi-platform environment that ensures a superior user experience regardless of connection speed. Elluminate Bridge for Moodle connects to any current or new Elluminate Live! account hosted by Elluminate or installed on the customer’s servers. In addition, because the Moodle integration is built using the Elluminate Bridge Toolkit, it can connect to Elluminate Live! in combination with one or more other CMS, LMS, or campus directory integrations, such as Blackboard or Active Directory. For more information, visit http://www.elluminate.com/moodle_cours e_management_system.jsp. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBTOP LAUNCHES LIVE SITE eCirkit, the new social media Webtop previously in private Beta, has gone “live.” The Social Penetrator is an easy-to-use application that makes your social media and data portable. Instantaneously populate your eCirkit profile with media and information from your profiles on other sites such as eBay, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. The Social Penetrator retrieves your social graph from other sites and mirrors it to eCirkit, eliminating the usual inconvenience of creating ENGAGING E-LEARNING, MEETING EXPERIENCES Adobe Systems Inc. has released a new version of AdobeR Acrobat Connect Pro, the company’s comprehensive Web conferencing and e-learning solution. The version includes new functionality that enriches online communication and collaboration, enabling organizations and schools to offer more engaging rapid training, interactive virtual classes and dynamic online meetings. Acrobat Connect Pro includes many new features for Web conferencing such as options for archiving and editing recorded online meetings; new presence capabilities that can allow federation with popular instant messaging (IM) clients; and powerful compliance and usage reporting tools. E-learning enhancements include breakout rooms to let students in virtual classes initiate separate conversations online; rapid authoring of video-based content; integration with learning management systems (LMS) from Blackboard and SumTotal; and tools that track and organize online classes. Users also can easily tailor training sessions or meetings that help capture participants’ attention and increase knowledge retention, resulting in an online learning experience remarkably similar to an in-person class. Combined with the new version of Adobe Presenter, Acrobat Connect Pro can enable users to hold engaging online meetings that incorporate high-impact Adobe Flash Player compatible presentations. Adobe Presenter can give virtually anyone the power to easily turn Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into multimedia experiences that include video, narration, animations, interactivity and advanced quizzes. New capabilities in this release include question pooling and randomization, easy-to-work-with video, and the ability to publish presentations to mobile devices or within PDF files. For more information, visit www.adobe.com/acrobatconnectpro/. BRINGING COLLABORATION TO MOODLE USERS Elluminate Bridge for Moodle integrates the popular Elluminate Live! virtual classroom environment with Moodle, a leading open-source course management system. The company is working with Moodle partners RemoteLearner.net and Open Knowledge Technologies to provide the integration. Elluminate Bridge for Moodle enables academic institutions using Moodle to easily and seamlessly add synchronous distance learning and collabo- Elearning! June/July 2008 47 http://www.elluminate.com/moodle_course_management_system.jsp http://www.adobe.com/acrobatconnectpro/ http://RemoteLearner.net http://RemoteLearner.net
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