For our group project, we tried several of the video conferencing tools to communicate with one another. We met in the Live Chat on Angel to figure out what would work best for everyone. I could not get MS Live to work during the lab or when I met with my group. Three of the four of us were able to get WebHuddle to work, but there was no sound or video, and one member couldn’t get it to work so we ended up using Skype and a Google Doc to record what we agreed upon for the project. Yugma and Adobe only allow three users at at time, so those were not options for our group. We were unable to record the session, but we did take screen shots of our attempts and final communication.
One of the big advantages of video conferencing was that we were able to communicate with one another quickly. E-mail takes too long and the chat tools are nice, but the responses are faster when you actually speak to one another. Another advantage was we were able to discuss everything together at one time.
Some of the disadvantages are mentioned in the beginning when I state what tool we ended up using. Another disadvantage was the technological difficulties we kept encountering as a group. Since we all couldn’t get the different tools to work, we used Skype which helped accomplish what we needed to finish.
As a group, we came up with our own timeline so that we could finish everything on schedule and ensure the project is done well. We chose Google Docs (me) , Spreadsheets or Drawing (David), Forms (Jimmy), and Presentations (Jeff). Each group member will create a tutorial and we will use Slideshare to create the final presentation.
No comments:
Post a Comment