Delivering lessons online

Summer is fast approaching and I am considering providing students (who are requesting summer tutoring) the option to deliver instruction online. I know Elluminate is a wonderful product but it is way out of my budget considering I am spending my own money on this and would probably be taking in only a few students. Do you know of any similar product that is inexpensive or free? Thanks.

Em

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Permalink Reply by Cameron Foster on April 23, 2009 at 1:02am

Wiziq looks OK but I haven't tried it - it is free though so thats something!

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Permalink Reply by MQ on April 23, 2009 at 9:06pm

Thanks. I have subscribed to Wiziq and it seems like it's a good application. I love the whiteboard as it seems to be customized for teaching math which was the subject i specified on the registration.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Dickie on April 23, 2009 at 3:16am

You might also look at DimDim. It's free as long as you have a class of 20 or less.

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Permalink Reply by MQ on April 23, 2009 at 9:08pm

Thanks. I have subscribed to DimDim as well and will explore the functionalities. It does allow for 20 participants which is very nice.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Pemberton on April 23, 2009 at 8:13am

Em,

We have just installed a moodle on our website http://www.enabling.org/moodle ... Would you like to put your summer courses on our site? It will not cost you anything, and we'd enjoy hosting you to get some use out of the new software.

Write me at apembert@erols.com or to Bob Zenhausern at digitaldrz@gmail.com and we can talk specifics.

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Permalink Reply by MQ on April 23, 2009 at 9:10pm

Thanks, Anne. I would love to explore moodle through your site.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Murphy on April 23, 2009 at 8:23am

I've been using NING with supplements like mentioned below. You can embed just about anything you need.

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Permalink Reply by MQ on April 23, 2009 at 9:12pm

Thanks. I'll look into this as well.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Gimmy on April 26, 2009 at 8:36am

Have you tried out Sclipo - Social Learning Network? It has a course manager, you can share docs and videos through your own library, and you have a private live web classroom (with webcam, whiteboard & doc presenter).

(I work at Sclipo - so I hope this comment does not violate the terms of use)

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Permalink Reply by Donelle on April 26, 2009 at 2:55pm

Check out learncentral. It uses Elluminate and it's free.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Noack on April 26, 2009 at 3:30pm

Skype and a host of other tools (free) should allow you to do what you want. Skype has many add ons, including a screen sharing ap. Also think about using Google docs or other live editing tools like www.etherpad.com . Google groups works very well for discussion and allows file uploads.