Elluminate conference

I am overwhelmed! I attended the tapping into social networks for e learning and wow. I really didnt want to attend this. I thought that my skills would make me look silly. That I wouldnt get anythng from the conference! That it would be a waste of my time.
HOW WRONG CAN I BE??????

Regardless of the speakers (just like any other classroom/conference - some are engaging and others arent) I now have so many ideas to look at for fyrther development. My only other exposure to elluminate was not a positive one so I shelved it as something I might be interested in as a teacher. Well now .........

Learning more about elluminate and how to use it may end up being a priority for our learnscope project even though it is not even scheduled and in our plan. Talk about being flexible.
From here I guess I will talk to the rest of the team, try and get them to feel some of the magic that I do and see if they are interested in seeing a demo.

Here are the componants that made me feel so positive :

• The visuals - the screen was very easy to figure out.
• The names of all participants clearly displayed
• The ease of chat at the same time as listening an/or watching (so often at conferences I wanted to say something but cultuarally this is a no no at a conference)
• The clear sound and ease of mic control/use
• The whiteboard
• the ability to use break out rooms
• The ease of coming and going/getting a coffee/listening without needing to sit still.
• The instant feedback from moderators etc etc.

We have our first professional development workshop comiong up in 10 days. I cant wait even though it doesnt include elluminate - I can now see a clear link between ALL that we are learning and how that might feed into a virtual classroom like elluminate.

Just what we need if we are going to reach our remote but motivated workers.

Lud