Aug 31, 2010 - Blackboard earns award for blind accessibility

The National Federation of the Blind awarded its Nonvisual Accessibility Gold Certification, the organization's highest level of recognition, to Blackboard this month.

Aug 25, 2010 - Iowa Law School Offers Health Care Reform Law Class Online

A University of Iowa College of Law class that examines the legal implications of the health care reform law will be offered online via Elluminate Live!

Aug 19, 2010 - Faulkes Telescope Team holds successful training session for teachers across the Atlantic!

The Faulkes Telescope Team recently held a very successful online training session with teachers from the US using Elluminate Live! online collaboration system, connecting with 14 teachers from across New York State, explaining how they could get involved with the FT project.

Aug 19, 2010 - Schools embrace technology

Elluminate helps the Calgary Board of Education meet the needs of 21st century learners.

Jul 28, 2010 - 3 for 3

Which web 2.0 tools are best suited for enabling collaboration in teaching and learning? A trio of ed tech experts offer up their top three choices apiece.

Jul 27, 2010 - A Tool For Its Time

As they continue to empower teachers with upgraded instructional options, learning management systems have evolved into something whose old name just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Jul 7, 2010 - Engaging classrooms

With other technologies the UI is bringing online, particularly a program called Elluminate, which allows guests from places with even a meager Internet connection to communicate with a classroom halfway across the world, the new classrooms seem to hold unlimited potential.

Jul 2, 2010 - There’s a heaping helping of hospitality job opportunities in metro Atlanta

“The hospitality industry in Atlanta is a wonderful resource for our students. We have always done a lot of field trips to hotels, association meetings, events and other venues,” Newton said. “Now, with an interactive software tool called Elluminate Live, we can engage our students even more.”

Jun 29, 2010 - North Kitsap School District using online classes as a retention tool

North Kitsap is incorporating online learning to combat the increase of students transferring to other school districts that offer online classes.

Jun 14, 2010 - Social Networking Goes to School

"Social networking is not going to go away," says Steve Hargadon, creator of Classroom 2.0 and Elluminate social networking consultant. "These are so powerful in terms of learning."

Jun 11, 2010 - Virtual learning: Schools assess the possibilities

Cambridge Lakes added a blended online courses/classroom program in February, through a partnership with K¹². It will offer the program free of charge in the 2010-11 year to charter school students who are under- or over-performing by at least two grade levels.

Jun 9, 2010 - Videoconferencing Saves Southeastern Schools Professional Development Costs

Videoconferencing is helping schools cut travel costs and save on professional development. In fact, one regional organization reported it's saving more than $100,000 on annual professional development costs alone thanks to Internet-based teleconferencing.

Jun 4, 2010 - Chattahoochee Tech’s online drafting program fits today’s market

Brad Cooper has students he has never met, yet they are progressing steadily through the drafting program at Chattahoochee Technical College’s Appalachian campus. Online classes allow many of Cooper’s students to learn drafting from the comfort of their homes.

Jun 4, 2010 - Tech Appeal: Institutions offer wireless, smart classrooms and distance learning to recruit today’s students.

Does your college have tech appeal? Officials at The University of Findlay think their school’s multiyear effort to invest in smart classrooms, audience response systems, interactive whiteboards and other advanced instructional technologies gives them a recruiting advantage.

May 26, 2010 - New Courses Coming at the High School

As for the future, Rubadeau is also looking to try a program called “Elluminate” through the Colorado Northwest Community College. Through this, college professors teach online classes to students throughout the country with the help of online technologies.

May 25, 2010 - Technology Brings Dream Career Speakers to Online High School Students

Interactive virtual assemblies allow Insight Schools students to rub virtual shoulders with professionals and celebrities otherwise out of reach for traditional schools. The Insight Experience Series also exposes teens to the realities of 'dream' careers.

Apr 29, 2010 - Composing orchestral scores comes naturally to boy, 11

Graham was only 9 when he wrote "Infernal Fantasy," a piece for a full orchestra about an Arizona summer. When he isn't composing, Graham does his schoolwork through Arizona Virtual Academy, an online school for children who are home schooled.

Apr 29, 2010 - Thousands Of Students Benefit From Florida's First Virtual Career Fair On STEM

Thousands of students in middle and high schools across Florida yesterday learned first-hand what it takes to tackle an exciting career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) during the Department of Education’s first-ever STEM Virtual Career Fair. The online fair was hosted in partnership with the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) and Elluminate Technology.

Apr 27, 2010 - Nashir Samanani, CEO and founder of Elluminate brings Calgary talent to the world

Nashir Samanani, CEO and founder of Elluminate, is a pioneer in bringing Calgary’s technology sector to the world stage thanks to his family’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Apr 26, 2010 - New media link students, experts

About 100 students sat in the high-tech cyber café — a former library — at Cushing Academy, formulating questions and taking polls via Twitter and the Internet while interacting live with a panel of international experts on global health.

Apr 15, 2010 - Online Bar Mitzvah classes launched by Chabad

Unlike countless Jewish children who sat through seemingly endless after-school sessions to prepare for their big service, Max Kelly gets to study online in Elluminate with a rabbi from New York from the comfort of his own home in Connecticut.

Apr 15, 2010 - Tutoring goes online, real-time at UH West O'ahu's No'eau Center

Through the new Elluminate system at UH, student tutors are able to conduct real-time dialogue with students online and more actively engage the University's large, distance-learning student population who live on the neighbor islands.

Apr 12, 2010 - 'TechnoGirls'event inaugurated at Dubai Women's College

Dubai Women's College (DWC) held a one day event with the goal of increasing girls' engagement with technology and exposing them to the various career opportunities available in the high-tech industry. 400 students participated from 14 schools in Dubai, Umm Al Quwain and Ajman.

Mar 29, 2010 - Updated budget shows more than $1 million saved

Eastern Illinois University saved more than $1 million has been saved this year because of the attrition and hiring freeze and by cutting travel and equipment purchases. Using Elluminate to preview candidates for hiring and for students to give their thesis presentations has contributed.

Mar 25, 2010 - Hope for parents stuck with public schools: Web-based Christian academy brings 'brick and mortar' to home or church

While tuition for quality private schools typically can run from $12,000 to $20,000, Liberty online is just $4,000 annually, which covers tuition, books and software. Graduates of Liberty Christian School Online will have the same high-quality of academics" as students at the physical campus.

Mar 16, 2010 - Amid Snowfall Professors Hold Virtual Classes

After many classes fell behind on their intended lesson plans during last week's four snow days, some professors decided to hold virtual classes to thwart the bad weather. Apart from online classes through Elluminate Live!, which were quite effective, students used Blackboard to post questions and discussions.

Mar 16, 2010 - Online Learning Surges Thanks to New Technology

For years, educators have supported the concept of online learning but were lukewarm when it came to fully embracing the idea because of a perception that online classes lacked the quality of courses offered in traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms. But advances in technology are changing that thinking.

Mar 5, 2010 - An Icy Trek Warms Students to the Possibilities

Impossible2Possible is a Canadian nonprofit that uses adventures to inspire and educate students about sustainability. This year, the organization added high-tech satellite equipment so students can chat live with Siberian explorers through Elluminate.

Mar 1, 2010 - Educational Networking: The Role of Web 2.0 in Education

The advent of the internet, and in particular what we are calling Web 2.0, has so significantly changed our relationship to information and personal learning opportunities outside of formal education that we’re beginning to see a set of software tools emerge that are profoundly altering both learning processes and outcomes.

Feb 27, 2010 - York School Connects Students with Deployed Parents

Juwon Filmore read the latest chapters and showed pictures he'd drawn for his school book project to his mother on Thursday, even though she is deployed half a world away in Qatar. Juwon turned 10 Thursday, and as part of his birthday, he got to share schoolwork and one-on-one time with his mother via Elluminate.

Feb 26, 2010 - Cyber Surgeons Cross the Pond to Dissect Frog

Fourth graders in Daniela Roumou’s class at Lockhart Elementary School spent Thursday morning dissecting a virtual frog, taking turns with kids in Florida and England. Eluminate, a technology available to users of the Promethean program, allows a virtual classroom connection between multiple schools via the interactive whiteboard.

Feb 18, 2010 - Virtually Connected

Last semester, while sitting at her dining-room table, Hannah Poole helped young girls in southern Sudan to go to school. Her classroom discussions contributed to her virtual internship, said Poole, who did extensive reading on the importance of female teachers to girls’ education.

Feb 17, 2010 - Getting Face to Face with Distance Learning

New York Institute of Technology's videoconferencing capabilities have brought the school closer to its overseas learning partners. "We created a Facebook-like environment on the Elluminate engine," said Stan Silverman, Director of Technology-based Learning Systems.

Feb 12, 2010 - Kindergarten Assistant Wins European eTwinning Award

A Maltese kindergarten assistant at the St Thomas More College has won the eTwinning Annual European Award in the 4-11 years category with the project “Colours of Life," a story written by children, centering on the importance of colour in life. They created a series of collaborative drawings on the Interactive Whiteboard and had their very first taste of online learning through the use of Elluminate Video Conferencing.

Feb 11, 2010 - Professors Turn to Alternative Methods

“I think Elluminate Live! is great because it allows us to stay caught up without having to come in to make classes up,” said sophomore Sam Hunt, who used the program for a business law class. “Rather than jut listen to a lecture, we still have the ability to ask our teacher questions.”

Feb 11, 2010 - Virtual Classroom Caters to All Abilities

Anyone with a UA NetID can now access Elluminate, a free, virtual, collaborative web-conferencing system, headed by the Office of Instruction and Assessment and University Information Technology Services. The system is designed to meet a variety of students’ needs, from those who simply missed class, to those with disabilities.

Feb 1, 2010 - Holmes County Pilots Continuity of Learning Project

In the event of a disaster or a widespread crisis, such as a pandemic flu outbreak, could students continue to learn even if school operations were disrupted for an extended period of time? Lockheed Martin asked that the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) assist them in selecting a site for the project. Holmes County High School was chosen.

Feb 1, 2010 - New Online Tool Expands Classroom and Meeting Possibilities

University of Arizona has launched Elluminate, a Web-based virtual classroom and meeting environment that provides a suite of online meeting tools. UA employees and students can access and use the online tool at no cost. The University has purchased an unlimited use, three-year Elluminate software license.

Jan 27, 2010 - Elluminate Moves Classes to the Web

WSU has teamed up with a virtual meeting and collaboration company called Elluminate that is available for use starting this semester. The program is being used as an alternative to video conferencing and to satisfy all aspects of student learning. Elluminate is integrated with the Angel learning management system.

Jan 27, 2010 - Software Helps Campus Departments Put Brakes on Travel Costs

When Andre Nel, chief of the Division of Nanomedicine at UCLA, was invited to give a presentation last month to about 50 people on the East Coast, his staff didn't have to scramble to make travel arrangements or break into his already-crammed schedule to find a large chunk of time for a quick trip.
Instead, they set up a live presentation on the Web that Nel gave right from UCLA to a bicoastal audience.

Jan 26, 2010 - A Virtually Unknown Alternative

Ashcroft Secondary School, with 635 students, offers only a few electives. Feeling their frustration, their principal suggested they take Journalism 11 online through the Abbotsford Virtual School. The classes are free to B.C. residents, so they gave it a shot.

Jan 26, 2010 - Literary Pilates Online with AVS

Taylor Nichols, a student in AVS Journalism 11, discusses her experiences taking journalism course at a distance when not available at her 250-student school in Abbotsford. "This course has been a real workout," she says. "It has definitely strengthened and stretched my abilities. It's really easy taking journalism online."

Jan 1, 2010 - Education, Training Needs Fuel Web Conference Call Market: Report

When it comes to Web conference calls, an increasing number of users are tapping the technology for training, as well as educational purposes, a new report found. Web conferencing is expected to thrive in the corporate training area, according to Wainhouse Research.

Jan 1, 2010 - Flu-proofing Your Course: Student Presentations

Maybe you require your students to do individual presentations at the end of the semester to demonstrate their mastery of Spanish past tense. Or perhaps your students are required to do group presentations on a business case study as 20% of their course grade. Suddenly, tragedy strikes!

Jan 1, 2010 - The Virtual Classroom Redefines Education

Katarina Williams is an ambitious tenth grader in Haines City, Florida, shouldering the full burden of college-prep coursework: trigonometry, English, Earth-space science, economics, and American government. But trig is the only class that requires her to sit in a traditional classroom. The others she attends at Florida Virtual School without leaving her house.

Dec 1, 2009 - Commoners and Kings: New Videoconferencing Systems Target Wide Swath of Users

Videoconferencing is expanding on both ends of the spectrum. On the one hand, room-based systems are going even more high-end with the introduction of telepresence. On the other, a movement's afoot to make videoconferencing an everyman's tool.

Dec 1, 2009 - Elluminate Web Conferencing Technology Rolled Out

WSU has contracted with Elluminate to provide university-wide access to its Web-conferencing technology at no cost to individual units.

Dec 1, 2009 - Elluminate Web Conferencing Technology Rolled Out

This semester, the University launched ACES ACCESS to bring four introductory agricultural science courses to community colleges throughout Illinois.

Dec 1, 2009 - Elluminate's Fire and Ice Project Wins Award

The award recognizes an individual, team, or program whose innovative practices or policies have ultimately led to student achievement and serves as a model for other K-12 online learning institutions.

Dec 1, 2009 - Elluminate: Your Grandkid's Classroom

It gives an instructor the ability to hold a web conference with up to 300 participants, host interactive displays, video streaming, private-but-moderated chats between participants and just about every function a teacher could want in an online classroom. Last week, the company announced it's social network, LearnCentral, which launched in June of this year, has reached 25,000 members worldwide.

Dec 1, 2009 - Hermitage Offers Web Conferencing for Schools

The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson, started offering teachers the opportunity to visit the historic property through Web conferencing.

Dec 1, 2009 - Webcasts Connect Horse Experts to Public

Pender County Cooperative Extension is pleased to host the N.C. State University Fall/Winter Horse Elluminate series. These Elluminate sessions are interactive Internet webcasts that allow the NCSU specialist to connect with the local citizens on a tight budget.

Nov 20, 2009 - iNACOL Online Innovator Award Winners Announced

The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) has announced the winners of its first annual Online Innovator Awards. The organization, which promotes online K-12 learning through advocacy, research, and professional development, presents awards in three categories: best and most innovative learning practice; important new research furthering the advancement of K-12 e-learning; and most innovative individual achievement.

Nov 17, 2009 - Elluminate Adds Privacy Options to Education Social Network

Elluminate has announced the introduction of private versions of its nascent education social network, LearnCentral. In addition to the standard social networking tools, including real-time chat, blogs, discussion forums, and collaboration tools such as private meeting rooms, the site now offers LearnCentral Private Community, which allows a community manager to set privacy controls and permissions and determine which of the network's functions will be accessible to members.

Nov 1, 2009 - CHS Geography Class Goes Global

As the first decade of the 21st century starts winding down, those who grew up with great expectations for the ways technology would soon transform their lives might be a little disappointed that they still don't have robots to do laundry and cars that fly.

Nov 1, 2009 - Elluminate Rolls Out Video-centric Web Conferencing

The premise-based solution supports up to 25 endpoints in a session, H.323 interoperability, IM and call initiation through a presence engine, and up to HD720p point-to-point calls (HD720p requires dual core PC). An object-oriented whiteboard as well as chat and file transfer tools help round out the offering, along with LDAP and Active Directory integration and moderator controls of video presenters (with audio muting available).

Nov 1, 2009 - How Schools and Parents Can Prepare for Swine Flu

Some schools, such as St. Charles East High School in suburban Chicago and Grafton High School in Massachusetts, closed because of massive numbers of students and staff members calling in sick. (Both subsequently reopened.) And in New York City's public schools, staffers say that, because dozens of schools are functioning at more than 150 percent of capacity, they are having trouble isolating schoolchildren with fevers to stop the virus from spreading.

Nov 1, 2009 - It's a Flat World After All

In one Citrus High School geography class, students are learning that the world is flat. Jerry Swiatek's World Geography students are participating in the Flat Classroom Project, a collaborative effort on a global scale designed to "flatten" or lower walls so that students are able to interact and work with other students around the country and the planet.

Nov 1, 2009 - New Program at Wright State

The MSLD curriculum focuses on preparing students to apply knowledge, critical analysis, improvement strategies and research of organizational challenges while encouraging network-building among students. MSLD students integrate leadership theory and practice with real-world experiences and complete the program as a cohort, where members all complete the curriculum together.

Nov 1, 2009 - Product Reviews: Elluminate VCS

Elluminate VCS enables academic institutions, corporations, and other organizations to leverage large investments in legacy videoconferencing infrastructure by including desktop PCs. Primarily a software solution, it requires a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) server that operates exceptionally well on network speeds less than typical DSL connections and works with existing legacy H.323 infrastructure.

Nov 1, 2009 - The E-learning Revolution

A "revolution" in learning is what the Laurier School of Business and Economics is promising from its new partnership with Research In Motion in the latest reach of a decades-old drive to put the "e" in education.

Nov 1, 2009 - Virtual High School Offers Actual Courses

Dozens of Cape high school students are taking classes with teachers they'll never see and classmates they've never met. This year, 11th- and 12th-grade students in eight Cape towns are enrolled in Virtual High School, a program offered by a Maynard-based nonprofit group that provides online courses for more than 600 schools in 31 states and 34 countries.

Oct 1, 2009 - Social Skills Excel Through Online Education

In a recent study, researchers with The Center for Research in Educational Policy at the University of Memphis found that students who attend an online public school full-time are highly engaged in activities beyond the classroom, and showed improved interpersonal skills. Online education can, and does, provide a well-rounded education including both high-quality curriculum and necessary social development skills.

Oct 1, 2009 - Two Grants Open Doors for BBCC Services in Ritzville

Big Bend Community College received a $3.5 million grant enabling the Moses Lake college to work with Heritage University to offer students three new online programs. Programs developed through the five-year grant are interdisciplinary studies, early childhood education and applied technology.

Oct 1, 2009 - Video Conferencing System Blurs Boundaries

SJSU students are going to class without coming to San Jose. Students are using web conferencing to attend classes and professors' office hours without even being on campus, said a school of library and information science official.