Comments on: WHICH VIRTUAL CLASSROOM?

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:32:45 +0000

I use Oneeko.com working freelance - interested in more "group class orientated ones". Best wishes, Philip. http://www.onlineenglishteacher.com

By: leoluca

leoluca — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:40:00 +0000

Mitica !
ciao,
Luca (BB)

By: theenglishteacher

theenglishteacher — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:18:31 +0000

Hi Walton, and thanks for dropping by Regarding the online teaching, you set your own price regarding lessons/and or packages, is it easy to use? Well more or less depends how tech savvy you are, but once past the basic hurdles I would say quite straight forward. Do you get a lot of students, this also depends on how much you promote yourself, I always have students and sometimes on and off, but this is great for me as I teach offline too and have other projects running side by side. Try it out if you have some time, if you need any ulterior info please let me know, Aniya

By: Walton Burns

Walton Burns — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:12:42 +0000

Hi, I’m an ESL teacher in Kazakhstan and looking to possibly boost my income teaching online. I noticed you use Myngle and I wondered if you would mind giving some advice about it. Is it easy to use? Do you get a lot of students? How are the students? Does it pay well? Are there any other similar companies out there? I appreciate your time. Just trying to decide whether to try Myngle or not.

By: theenglishteacher

theenglishteacher — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:28:12 +0000

Hi Jo, thanks for your comment and thanks for sharing, I will definitely take a look at Elluminate. I had a peep at your blog, nice stuff, see you on Twitter

By: Jo Hart

Jo Hart — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:12:08 +0000

Sounds like you had a hard time! I use Elluminate and love it! Very reliable, have had students participate successfully in very interactive sessions via dial up. Occasional issues are more to do with unreliable/slow internet connections of participants rather than Elluminate. You can also record sessions. However Elluminate is not free – you can have what they call a V-room free this allows three participants so is great for meetings and individual tutorials. For me Skype would be very much a poor alternative as in my experience you can do almost everything in Elluminate that you might do in a real classroom including groupwork and quizzes – and some of it rather better! eg brainstorming.

By the way Edublogs has a community partnership with Elluminate and has access to a room used for its free webinars. I usually facilitate either an unconference session or a specific topic session in the room on Fridays (West Aus time 09:00 – that’s GMT+8). So if you and any of your colleagues are interested in seeing how Elluminate works then come and join us – the sessions are freely available to all. Alternatively if several people are interested we can run a specific session to introduce the features of Elluminate either as one of our Friday sessions or at another time if our time is inconvenient for people as it probably would be from Rome!

Jo Hart (@JoHart on Twitter)