This articulate video offers learners in my course two things - prelearning on best practices in use and presentation of using Wimba Classroom. Audio and visual cues segment, highlight, and clearly focus the learner on the topic. This video follow is well organized, short, easy to access, and 508 compliant.

Learners can use jing to record their activities that demonstrate their learning within the Bb environment. It connects visuals with audio and can demonstrate, highlight, and segment items in accordance with best-practices in multimedia design. It's better than other products because it's easy to use and free!

This is the environment where learners will record a demonstration of best instruction practices. This interactive environment allows users to interact in a virtual space. Presentations, lectures, Q and A, interactive polling, and other features take the classroom online. This is the current tool used at my institution. It's relatively inexpensive and integrates perfectly with our LMS, Blackboard. Blackboard purchased Wimba and their largest competitor, Elluminate, so they are working on Gemini as a new product to replace these products.

I've never used mindmeister, but I love the addition of the larger graphics. Larger graphics offers variety and improves users ability to visually differentiate items. Graphic organizers offer a unique way to introduce topics without overwhelming learners. Interesting graphics and text create visual interest for prelearning. I've only used Freemind for mindmap projects with school, and their graphics are small in relation.

I've used this free resource for all the mapping assignments throughout my courses. It's easy to use and export as a jpg. It provides a great way to introduce and organize concepts as visuals.

More great resources for my workshop. This short video, very simply instructs users on adding a wiki within their Bb course. The video is free of extraneous, distracting information. The audio is clear and lined up with the appropriate visual.

Blackboard 9+ offers collaborative tools within their learning environment. These tutorials offer a great learning tool for the presentation.

LMS have taken collaboration and made it easy. Rather than accessing numerous external sites, they've included blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking, such as diigo.

This video collection would be great for pre-training. Various instructors at Duke share their experiences with using Bb. Though the audio is a bit tinny, the interview-style videos include actual visual examples of the topics spoken about. What a great way to introduce a group of learners to Blackboard.

A Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning: Implications for Design Principles Richard E. Mayer and Roxana Moreno University of California, Santa Barbara This paper is based on an entry entitled "Instructional Technology" in the forthcoming Handbook of Applied Cognition, edited by Frank Durso and published by Wiley. The authors' email addresses are mayer@psych.ucsb.edu and moreno@psych.ucsb.edu.

Effective communication using Blackboard.

Info on best practices

Wimba FAQa

Wimba best practices, not specific to Blackboard

Blackboard grading tricks for faculty

Blackboard grading tricks and tips

Blackboard grade center tips

Blackboard faculty tips