The Productive Scholar: John LeMasney on using Wimba

This week’s Pro­duc­tive Scholar was all about dig­i­tal audio dis­cus­sions. In this ses­sion, John LeMas­ney, Prince­ton University’s Man­ager of Edu­ca­tional Tech­nol­ogy Train­ing and Out­reach, talked about the audio por­tions of Black­board Col­lab­o­rate, for­merly Wimba Voice, which fac­ulty can use to man­age Voice based dis­cus­sions, Voice based emails, and even cre­ate pod­casts. The great ben­e­fit to using your voice over text in dis­cus­sions is, of course, the added dimen­sion and emo­tional con­text of sound. If you’ve ever made a quick phone call to some­one who you were hav­ing trou­ble express­ing your­self to in an email, you imme­di­ately under­stand the ben­e­fit. Watch the screen­cast below to get started with Blackboard’s col­lab­o­rate tools, and help your stu­dents to express them­selves more fully in out-of-class dis­cus­sions. Make sure to go full-screen to get the best view­ing experience.

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