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How would I use what I learned

 

 

I am already using Skype in my personal and school life as mean to connect to my friends, family and classmates. I am always available on Skype via my Iphone, as I find it easy and cheap to be available for a call and it is helping me to avoid intternational calling charges.

 

I also extensively used Skype for communicating with my Group Project partner (James P.) and helping with setting up a template for e-portfolio for my classmate (Francine K.) in this course.

 

Athabasca University currently (2014) holds a licence for Adobe Connect. I will be using Adobe Connect at my work place for webconferencing with coworkers, attending presentations and will be using it in the courses I support.

 

As most of the workplaces are using room-based conferencing, it is honest to say that I used it in the past and will most likely use it in the future.

 

Videoconferencing is a great tool for sharing, collaboration, meetings, discussion and distance teaching.

 

 

Videoconferencing

Montgomerie & King in their paper "Educational Videoconferencing: cracking open the classroom door" (2011) divide videoconferencing into three areas:

 

  • personal videoconferencing

  • web conferencing

  • room-based videoconferencing

 

Personal videoconferencing is well known today. It usually provides voice, video and chat capabilities between two or more users. This technology is widly used by people all over the world. The most known personal videoconferencing tools are: Skype, Facetime, ICQ, Google Hangouts, MS Lync, Yahoo Messanger.

 

 

I have personally used video capability in ICQ, Yahoo Messanger, MSN, Skype. Currently I am using Skype everyday to connect with my friends and family all over the world (see screenshot of the session in Skype below). Skype is available for free on PCs, tablets and smart phones which makes communication even easier. Skype also allows you to share files and screen. Unfortunately, Skype does not allow free video calls between more than two people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web conferencing is very similar to personal conferensing, it allows users to use audio/video, text chat; the biggest difference from personal videoconferencing: it is also allows voting, use of interactive whiteboard, and recording of the sessions. Web conferencing is widely used for businesses and distance education. The most known web conferensing systems are: Adobe Connect and Elluminate (now part of Blackboard). Below you can see an example of the room in Adobee Connect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Room-based videoconferencing provides connectivity to larger groups of people working together. Room-based videoconference can to ore more rooms together: all rooms can see and hear each other at the same time as well as whiteboards that are connected. Most of the workplaces are using videoconferencing rooms right now.

 

 

 

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