Facilitating+a+Virtual+Classroom+Activity

**Facilitating a Virtual Classroom Activity - Wimba Lesson

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Description**  The Wimba classroom Working With Word Families presentation allows students to have a visual and narrative explaination of the word families. It can be used for conferences and live presentations. For my purposes however, it is being used to tell students about word families. 

**Process**  To complete this assignment, I created a power point slide and downloaded it to the Wimba classroom I created in my virtual classroom. I recorded my voice explaining the word families slide by archiving. When I finished my presentation, I downloaded it as an MP4 file. I created a button on my virtual classroom menu called Wimba, where students can click to view the presentation before completing the word family activities in week 3.

**Reflection**  I was very frustrated and confused with this activity. I did not find Wimba to be user friendly. I had a hard time navigating and understanding what to do to create and save my presentation. When I did finish, I found that my computer needed to be upgraded in order to download my presentation. This is not a site I will ever use again. I could have completed the same presentation using Voicethread or Jing which are much more user friendly. I can understand that this may be an excellent site to use for conferencing with older users but not young students.

**References** (n.d.). Retrieved from www.wimba.com