Elluminate: Special Features for Your Classroom

Featuring Tammy Moore

Presentation by Leslee G.

Polling Options for StudentsPolling options – red x or green check mark

or ABCDEEmoticons – happy or confusedThumbs up or thumbs downApplauseResults appear on screen as a bar graph for

instructor to interpret

Communication within ElluminateChat message to entire room or individuals -

instructor sees all of the messages to entire rooms and individuals

Blue door when you are not presentMicrophone when you are speaking – like a

walkie-talkieRaise your “hand” symbol so you can have

permission to speak in microphone

Other Useful Features on ElluminateYou can choose layout of whiteboard to fit

your screen under ViewLaser pointer is used to point out important

information – each person can use a laser on a screen number of activities you can do with thispoint out where they are located or point out

important information

Instructor/Student ViewStudents can be working on an activity in

Elluminate while teacher works with a person one-on-one

Instructor can work with individual students publicly or privatelyDifferent uses for each

Activities can be done anonymously or with names as a classLow levels of accountability and

embarrassment vs. high levels of accountability

Clip Art within ElluminateFocus of the session was on clipart for

Elluminate and interactive whiteboardsClip art – ideal for visual learners in classElluminate has pre-loaded clipart – each

student can bring in images

Student PicsYou can have students pictures uploaded –

use them for introductions, grouping students (see who is in their group)

Students upload picture at beginning of class and then you upload it into clipart (sized them down, and put a box around the picture)

Using Clip Art in Elluminate or on Interactive White BoardsImages copied to give them a quick reminder

of where to go (Elluminate features, Microsoft tools)

Catchy examples for first slide as they come into class

Math ClipArtCalculator –different brands that your

students would usecoins (ESL students, foreign language)graphs and number lines

Science ClipArtKey Concept maps – continuous for the class

– big picture of the class (could be used in any type of classroom)

Labs – all the pieces of it

More Info…Learn Central – great site for teachers to use

for collaboration using Elluminate Tammy Moore has times to collaborate with

teachers on this site as well as her portfolio

Source:https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsde

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