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Wimba PRONTO. AGENDA. Informal Learning Wimba PRONTO Basic What’s new in the new Wimba PRONTO Product Demonstration Marlen Rattiner on Keyboard and Backup Vocals. BEFORE AND AFTER CLASS. SERVING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY STUDENTS. MEET Wimba PRONTO.
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AGENDA • Informal Learning • WimbaPRONTOBasic • What’s new in the new WimbaPRONTO • Product Demonstration Marlen Rattiner on Keyboard and Backup Vocals
MEET WimbaPRONTO Only instant messenger designed exclusively for education by educators to advance and promote learning objectives. Not only connects students and educators, but it also allows for robust collaboration necessary for building an academic community.
RECENT STUDIES - S. Nicholson “Socialization in the ‘Virtual Hallway’: IM in the Asynchronous Web-Based Distance Education Classroom”
WimbaPRONTOBasic Released Dec. 2006 Academic Centric Instant Messaging Platform Classmates auto-populated based on course enrollment Chat and VOIP Profiles Avatars Emoticons Blocking Invisibility
What’s the “new” in the NEW WimbaPRONTO • For Students & Teachers • Blended Audio and Video Conferencing • Application Sharing • Queued Chat for Tutoring and Office Hours • For The School • School Tab with Help Desk Functionality • Institutional Notifications • Reporting