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• The New Rules of Engagement
  (September 2008)
• Fogarty International Center Expanding ICT Use.
  (September 2008)
• Members only ...
  (September 2008)
• One Solution to School Phobia
  (September 2008)
• 2.0 in the Classroom& PBS Election Curriculum
  (September 2008)
• Career and Tech Education Bolstered by Online Options
  (September 2008)
• Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow?
  (September 2008)
• 2008 UNBC Teaching Conference
  (August 2008)
• A fantastic collaborative tool!
  (August 2008)
• eLearning in the Future: An Elluminate Perspective
  (August 2008)
• Online Degree Education Strengthened in Colorado
  (August 2008)
• Elluminate Sessions
  (August 2008)
• eLearning eVolution - Six Steps to a Successful Synchronous Session and More
  (August 2008)
• The Redgate Read on Online Learning - It's a Virtual Classroom Not a One Room School House
  (August 2008)
• Web Conferencing Tools for Online and Blended Education
  (August 2008)
• Elluminate Trial Goes Down Well with Maths Students
  (August 2008)
• Rising Gas Prices Fuel Online Enrollments
  (August 2008)
• Field Trips Go Virtual
  (August 2008)
• Playing Video in Elluminate Live!
  (July 15, 2008)
• In Mexico City
  (July 12, 2008)
• Six Steps to a Successful Synchronous Session
  (July 14, 2008)
• 6 Free Web Conferencing Tools Librarians Will Love
  (July 21, 2008)
• Elluminate Plan Explained at NECC
  (July 2, 2008)
• E-Learning Queen's "Corgie Big Bark Awards"
  (June 27, 2008)
• Elluminte Evaluation
  (June 29, 2008)
• "Six of the Best from the Third Annual Blended Learning Conference"
  (June 22, 2007)
• "Top Tools: Elluminate"
  (June 2008)
• "Comments on Elluminate"
  (June 24, 2007)
• "Elluminate Your Classroom"
  (June 24, 2008)
• How to Use Elluminate's New Program To Fast-Track Branded Online Course Creation
  (June 19, 2008)
• One Size Does Not Fit All
  (June 16, 2008)
• Reflections on Using Elluminate
  (June 11, 2008)
• Supporting the Online Instructional Cycle
  (June 10, 2008)
• EDU 2.0: The eLearning Evolution
  (June 4, 2008)
• Experimenting with Elluminate
  (May 20, 2008)
• Moodle @ OU
  (May 20, 2008)
• Free professional development
  (May 20, 2008)
• JacK Hanna Gives Internet Lesson to Over 400 Students!
  (May 16, 2008)
• NY Hall of Science’s Virtual Visit Program
  (May 9, 2008)
• I do like me some functional technology
  (May 6, 2008)
• A Day in the Life of a Global, Connected Educator
  (May 6, 2008)
• Elluminate becomes CST Sustaining Patron
  (May 2, 2008)
• Web conferencing a-go-go
  (May 2, 2008)
• Florida Virtual School Presents First Virtual Shakespeare Festival
  (May 1, 2008)
• My Workflow with Synergy
  (April 29, 2008)
• Online Conferences
  (April 26, 2008)
• Digital Communities & Digital Identities
  (April 26, 2008)
• Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible to Students with Disabilities
  (April 17, 2008)
• Web Tour Feature in Elluminate Live!
  (April 22, 2008)
• Learning Literacy in the Virtual Classroom
  (April 22, 2008)
• My Almost Daily News
  (April 17, 2008)
• What an Elluminating Experience!
  (March 28, 2008)
• Library of Congress - New Interactive Website
  (April 13, 2008)
• From little things big things grow
  (April 13, 2008)
• Making Connections - What are you afraid of?
  (April 13, 2008)
• Lovin' Elluminate
  (April 11, 2008)
• Elluminate Live! A Critical Feature
  (April 4, 2008)
• Virtual School and Isolation
  (March 30, 2008)
• Starting Point for Schools: Articulation
  (March 28, 2008)
• Elluminate Announces 2008 Centers of Excellence
  (March 21, 2008)
• Online Learning Spaces Contribute to Student Achievement
  (March 20, 2008)
• Adventures in Online Synchronous Communication
  (March 20, 2008)
• Rethinking The Cost of Accommodating Classroom Technology
  (March 11, 2008)
• Elluminate - Another tool for linking lots of remote locations – LIVE!
  (March 05, 2008)
• Some Reflecting
  (February 10, 2008)
• E-Learning Queen
  (February 15, 2008)
• Do You Moodle?
  (February 14, 2008)
• Visual Thinkers in the Virtual Classroom
  (February 13, 2008)
• eLearning and Facilitating
  (February 13, 2008)
• Elluminate Live Session
  (February 13, 2008)
• What Conference are YOU attending this year?
  (February 06, 2008)
• Next best thing to being there
  (January 21, 2008)
• Is Elluminate the Answer?
  (January 14, 2008)
• "When Information Technology Meets Instructional Design …"
  (January 08, 2008)
• "About Elluminate"
  (January 07, 2008)
• "Tucking in 2007 Part four: Flat Classroom Project Celebrations"
  (January 05, 2008)
• "Achieving Online “Collaborative Advantage”"
  (December 18, 2007)
• "No Teachers in the Classroom"
  (December 11, 2007)
• "5 Tips for Getting Started in the Virtual Classroom"
  (December 10, 2007)
• "Loading Images in Elluminate Live™"
  (December 07, 2007)
• "Fire and Ice Initiative Connects Students on Three Continents"
  (December 04, 2007)
• "The Role of a Mentor"
  (December 03, 2007)
• "What Happened at our Show & Tell Session"
  (December 02, 2007)
• "NCSS San Diego, Saturday Session on Florida Virtual Middle School"
  (December 02, 2007)
• "It's finally not five years away anymore; Elluminate on NPR"
  (November 28, 2007)
• "Interview with Karen Locke: Interviews with E-Learning Professionals Series"
  (November 26, 2007)
• "Elluminate Live! Sessions"
  (November 14, 2007)
• "Elluminate - Getting Brighter all the Time!"
  (November 13, 2007)
• "Origo Invites NextNow Collab to Meet 2007 Tech Laureates"
  (November 08, 2007)
• "Leah S. Piatt: Interviews with E-Learning Professionals Series"
  (October 31, 2007)
• "Using blogs, wikis, elluminate and secondlife in midwifery education and professional development"
  (October 30, 2007)
• "Get Elluminated at EDUCAUSE"
  (October 21, 2007)
• "Finalists for Outstanding Commercial Achievement - Alberta Science and Technology Awards"
  (October 20, 2007)
• "Online Learning Communities Need Structure"
  (October 19, 2007)
• "Elluminate: not so bad"
  (October 17, 2007)
• "Elluminate"
  (October 15, 2007)
• "Professional Development on steroids!"
  (October 09, 2007)
• "E-learning So Popular, It's Free"
  (October 09, 2007)
• "Elluminate's Advantages, SL challenges"
  (October 07, 2007)
• "Elluminate and virtual field trips"
  (September 29, 2007)
• "A Long Overdue Look At Elluminate"
  (September 28, 2007)
• "Cancopy Law"
  (September 27, 2007)
• "Developing an e-Learning Strategy and Architecture - Lance Dublin (Elluminate Webinar)"
  (September 27, 2007)
• "Elluminate"
  (September 25, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #10"
  (September 24, 2007)
• "Journal Sept 23"
  (September 23, 2007)
• "Blogs = Complex Spaces"
  (September 21, 2007)
• "How Do You Fit Everything In! DO YOU Ever Sleep?"
  (September 21, 2007)
• "QOTD: Sue Waters on multitasking"
  (September 20, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #9"
  (September 19, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #8"
  (September 19, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #7"
  (September 17, 2007)
• "Elluminate!"
  (September 17, 2007)
• "Elluminate Sponsorship"
  (September 16, 2007)
• "International networking"
  (September 16, 2007)
• "IUCN 2007: "New Learning for Sustainability in the Arab Region""
  (September 15, 2007)
• "The best of times, the worst of times"
  (September 15, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #6"
  (September 12, 2007)
• "More about Elluminate vRoom"
  (September 11, 2007)
• "Elluminate Ethics"
  (September 10, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #5"
  (September 10, 2007)
• "Types of class meeting formats"
  (September 10, 2007)
• "HOW MANY TIMES CAN I MENTION THEIR NAME?"
  (September 9, 2007)
• "Elluminate!"
  (September 9, 2007)
• "VRE Recap in Week 2"
  (September 8, 2007)
• "Guinea pigs needed"
  (September 6, 2007)
• "Free Web Conferencing Tool By Elluminate"
  (September 4, 2007)
• "Elluminate sponsorship"
  (September 1, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #4"
  (August 31, 2007)
• "Tips on Using Elluminate"
  (August 30, 2007)
• "What is Elluminate Lite?"
  (August 30, 2007)
• "How is Your School Doing on Disaster Preparedness?"
  (August 29, 2007)
• "Elluminate demonstration"
  (August 29, 2007)
• "Ruminating & Elluminating with Amber #3"
  (August 27, 2007)
• "Illussive Summer"
  (August 27, 2007)
• "Elluminate Free Webinar's (and Edubloggerworld Kickoff)"
  (August 22, 2007)
• "REPORT TO ESPERANCE VET CLUSTER"
  (August 21, 2007)
• "Elluminate"
  (August 16, 2007)
• "InfoWorld Test Center Puts Elluminate Live! Through Its Paces"
  (August 14, 2007)
• "Illuminating Elluminate"
  (August 12, 2007)
• "This is a great tool for students..."
  (August 08, 2007)
• "Techteacher Network Podcast Features Elluminate Live! V8"
  (August 07, 2007)
• "Reflections of Online Teaching/Learning"
  (July 30, 2007)
• "...a fabulously immersive web conferencing tool that certainly has to be experienced to be believe."
  (July 29, 2007)
• "SaaS and FOSS replacing COTS?"
  (July 25, 2007)
• "Live Online Storytelling Captivates Student Audience"
  (July 24, 2007)
• "It's All about Building Community"
  (July 22, 2007)
• "Don't Drive or Fly - Video-Conference Instead!"
  (July 16, 2007)
• "Digital storytelling: Hobby of the present and future"
  (July 16, 2007)
• "I can only strongly recommend downloading a few of the sessions or even taking part in some of the Elluminate interactive sessions if you can spare the time"
  (July 12, 2007)
• "The conference made pretty good use of technology itself."
  (June 19, 2007)
• "Conversations about learning"
  (June 15, 2007)
• "Online meeting with 100 students on Vancouver Island recorded"
  (June 15, 2007)
• "Building a Game Strategy for Your Virtual School"
  (June 12, 2007)
• "I believe that it is important to actually get out and see how other individuals, Colleges and organisations facilitate their professional development so that you get ideas for how you can improve what you do."
  (June 8, 2007)
• "I think this programme has great potential for students of all levels."
  (June 8, 2007)
• "A fun Elluminate time."
  (June 6, 2007)
• "The session features a presentation and discussion with Dr. Zane Berge. Dr. Berge is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an Adjunct professor at the University of Maryland University College."
  (May 6, 2007)
• "I just finished a pilot program using Elluminate. ... The experience in some ways is better than an actual classroom."
  (April 27, 2007)
• "It's happening as an Elluminate meeting, so we can share the microphone and screens etc... to keep things pretty dynamic in order to respond to questions and contributions on the fly."
  (April 20, 2007)
• "Just now, I got out of an Elluminate session that talked about Social Presence online and how important that is in order to help students succeed in online instruction."
  (April 19, 2007)
• "This web presentation platform is quite robust and simple to learn if you've some experience with synchronous web tools."
  (April 19, 2007)
• "The Community of Practice meeting of April 2 was recorded in Elluminate! and is available for anyone who wants to listen in. This can also give prospective users of Elluminate an opportunity to experience one of its uses."
  (April 11, 2007)
• "Global Knowledge currently uses a tool from iLinc Communications to provide the class. SANS is using a tool from Elluminate. Having sat through 7 sessions with Global Knowledge and only 1 session with SANS, I can say that the tool SANS is using is far better."
  (April 10, 2007)
• "Some of the interactive software being developed is amazing. Software such as Webtrain, Elluminate Live, Adobe Connect and Wimba are highly interactive and functional"
  (April 9, 2007)
• "After reviewing the last Elluminate session, reading through Richard Sagor's Chapters for collecting and analyzing data, and reviewing the notes from my blog, I feel as if I have a better sense of the direction in which I am headed."
  (April 8, 2007)
• "... I had a discussion via Elluminate with Cathy Baxter to start identifying talk topics for my visit."
  (April 4, 2007)
• "... we are confident that all the participants, who hailed from as far away as NT, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Victoria, not only had a great time, but also found it a valuable and productive learning experience."
  (April 3, 2007)
• "Elluminate's vRoom - a great free tool from Elluminate ..."
  (March 31, 2007)
• "We have just finished a session on Elluminate for PodOmatic - I think both are great!"
  (March 29, 2007)
• "I saw another ePortfolio presentation conducted by Foliotek and also a web conferencing tool - Elluminate Live."
  (March 26, 2007)
• "In our conference, the platform that worked the best for pushing web video out in Elluminate (as a web tour) was content from YouTube"
  (March 24, 2007)
• "...m personal experience with Elluminate leads me to recommend that, if you're looking for a tool that will allow you to co-browse websites with a small number (1-3) of students AND offer very good Voice over IP quality, you should take a good look at this free tool."
  (March 22, 2007)
• "We also used Elluminate. What a cool technology. It was crazy--I had never used something like that before! It was great to be able to talk and text at the same time with the class."
  (March 18, 2007)
• "Last night a group of educators in New Zealand, TUANZ conference organizers, and Miguel Guhlin and I gathered in Elluminate to talk about ICT implementation in New Zealand schools."
  (March 6, 2007)
• "Listen to this podcast and you may well find yourself exploring the Elluminate Live website to find out what this second generation audiographics tool can do for you!"
  (March 5, 2007)
• "[Elluminate's vRoom] provides some independence for potential users, and the opportunity to get your hands "dirty" and experience how it works in real life (not just on paper)."
  (March 5, 2007)
• "It was a thrill to have a real-time [Elluminate] discussion with many "big names" in the education blogosphere."
  (March 3, 2007)
• "This Elluminate session was designed to familiarize teachers with the basics of Project/Problem-Based Learning."
  (February 28, 2007)
• "...her Elluminate session which is excellent!"
  (February 26, 2007)
• "I had the best time in Elluminate on Tuesday and Wednesday listening to the Advanced Teams (ABPC 21st Century teaching and learning project) tell about their Learning 2.0 projects."
  (February 16, 2007)
• "He made the technology come alive and students saw how effortless his use of technology to teach Spanish really is."
  (February 12, 2007)
• "Ann Odgers, the local LearnScope coordinator, not only arranged to have the talk video beamed out to their remote locations, but she also hosted a live Elluminate session with the slides, the video and she put contextual comments into the chat box. She recorded it and one of her field colleagues has already said she wants to workshop it."
  (February 3, 2007)
• "I have found Elluminate easy to use on multiple platforms, and very flexible from a participant standpoint..."
  (February 3, 2007)
• "It just so happens that Alabama may have the advantage when it comes to teacher collaboration. They have been actively involved in promoting teacher conferencing using Elluminate services."
  (February 2, 2007)
• "My Learning through Technology class is sometimes taught online, and last week we used a program called "Elluminate" where we could chat with each other, view a power point, and follow our professor to other websites as well. It was pretty cool and definitely a great way to learn."
  (January 28, 2007)
• "I think that if I end up working with children who are physically disabled this might be an easier way to teach them. It really is a new and interesting way to teach your class and to keep them interested."
  (January 25, 2007)
• "The cash-strapped Northern Marianas College is getting some help in mitigating the shortage of teachers at the lone community college in the CNMI. That help, though, comes not in the form of a person but through a software called Elluminate Live"
  (December 23, 2006)
• "Education in Web 2.0"
  (December 13, 2006)
• "Sharing ideas with other schools during Elluminate sessions has been so beneficial for incorparating new strategies in my classroom."
  (December 11, 2006)
• "One of my teaching goals is to get my off-site students more engaged in class. We are trying to get Elluminate at my campus so I think that will help..."
  (October 24, 2006)
• "I think I would have found the distance learning easier if all of my classes had used Elluminate throughout the course."
  (November 25, 2006)
• "An online class makes people more comfortable in expressing their opinions and sharing their work. In addition, it frees up hours and hours of driving time and money spent for parking."
  (November 19, 2006)
• "Elluminate as a synchronous, interactive environment takes the cake from what I have seen and know at this point about these sorts of environments."
  (October 24, 2006)
• I do not have much experiences with on-line webinar style work, and the software was a bit intimidating to me, though others who have had extensive experience have already, in their blogs, raved about Eluminate, the system that we used.
  (October 17, 2006)