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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 15, 2007) - Wimba, the education technology company that
helps people teach people, today announced the release of its Wimba Voice
version 5.2, formerly known as Voice Tools. Leveraging a close connection
to its user community, Wimba based the new release almost entirely on the
collaborative input and expressed needs of its users.
Features of Wimba Voice 5.2 include enhanced volume controls, improved
accuracy for fast forward and rewind, expanded audio input and output
options, and improved time indicators. The new continuous playback option
relieves faculty and students of having to click on each individual voice
thread to review student-recorded voice boards or listen to course lectures
through the Wimba Podcaster. In addition, the user interface has been
updated to provide a fresh, clean look.
"Our users' success is directly connected to the performance of our
solutions," said Annie R. Chechitelli, Senior Director, Product Marketing,
Wimba. "We're grateful for their input, which we'll continue to value as we
pursue even greater levels of collaboration in education technology."
Wimba Voice is well-suited for language learning and creating vocal
exercises in any subject. The web-based tools, which integrate seamlessly
with an institution's course management system (CMS), facilitate and
promote vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment.
Additionally, Wimba Voice humanizes and personalizes any online course by
using enabling voice boards, voice-enabled email, embedded voice within
course pages, and live group discussions and debates.
"Working with Wimba continues to be a true partnership. Wimba Voice 5.2 is
a perfect example of how Wimba listens to clients and prioritizes its
product roadmap based on our feedback," said Donna Vakili, Ph.D., Director
for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy. "The tool's usefulness extends
beyond the 'obvious' subjects like foreign-language and speech, enabling
our teachers in every content area to communicate personally, above and
beyond what can be accomplished in text alone. For K-12 students, personal
contact and feedback with voice tools are critical for student success."
Wimba offers the most comprehensive suite of collaborative products created
exclusively for education. Wimba Voice 5.2 is part of the Wimba
Collaboration Suite -- which includes Wimba Classroom, Wimba Voice, Wimba
Create and Wimba Pronto (formerly known as Live Classroom, Voice Tools,
Course Genie and Pronto, respectively) -- empowers educators and publishers
with a unique collaborative approach that enhances learning, improves
outcomes, and increases student retention.
Wimba's users include K-12 institutions, universities and colleges around
the world that value collaborative online learning.
About Wimba
Wimba is a company focused solely on education and dedicated to the
principle that people learn more when they are drawn closer together. Our
collaborative software applications for the online education market enable
institutions to bridge technology and pedagogy by supplementing course
management systems with many of the proven disciplines of in-person
learning environments. Wimba's intuitive solutions enable educators and
students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online, engage in live
chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added
to text-based course content, and more. Instructors can also use Wimba
solutions to convert Microsoft Word documents into accessible course
content and to create and administer tests, quizzes, and exams. Our focus
on education and collaboration with educators fuels our product
development.
Wimba. People Teach People. www.wimba.com