Web-Conferencing

For our group project Marcus and I had a web conference using Vyew.  The web conference was good for meeting and discussing our project but we also encountered some problems.  One of those problems is that Vyew does not have a recording function.  As a result, we used Jing to record the web conference.  This was also a problem because it only picked up my voice.  I am not quite sure why my voice was the only one that was recorded.  However, this is a major issue if you want to record a web conference.  Next time I think I would try something like Skype and try to record the web conference using Camtasia.

Vyew did have some cool features, such as the ability to edit the screen, and upload images.  I've added a screenshot of our conference below that shows some of those features.

As you can see, I uploaded an image for Moodle and added some text on the same screen that Marcus had already added some text.  You can also see that we were able to use the chat feature as well.  That came in handy for us when the discussion audio and video were freezing and lagging.

This could be useful in my class as a way to have students be able to respond through the chat while I use the editing functions.