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Mar

The Web Laureate: I’m a new fan

Posted by Betsy  Published in OpenSource, Personal

I was surprised and honored to find that The Web Laureate had linked to my post about Dimdim vs. Elluminate within a lovely poem. Apparently, this is what the Web Laureate does. I’ll describe it as Web 2.0 through the eyes of a poet. But you should check it out for yourself. In tribute, here [...]

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Feb

Dimdim vs. Elluminate: Fight!

Posted by Betsy  Published in OpenSource, Uncategorized

My colleagues and I at the Distance Course Design & Consulting Group presented some research at the Hawaii Educational Research Association conference earlier this month, and based on that, I put together the VoiceThread presentation embedded below. (By the way, “Elizabeth Lavolette”? Yeah, that’s my alter-ego.) The research is a comparison of two virtual classroom [...]

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