This morning Kevin Honeycutt Skyped me in my office. He was doing professional development in Arkansas and wanted to demo the power of Skype. Remember pen pals? Skye and a few other tools can do digitally what pen pals do and much MORE. Imagine connecting with other classrooms.
Skype seems to be thethe most popular tool. It’s easy to use and free. The only downside is that you and the person you want to talk with must both have Skype installed on your computers.
There are other options, and as with anything, all have advantages and dis advantages. The key is using the right tool for the task.
Present.io real time web presentation in just two clicks. very drop has a built in presentation mode. log in to the drop as the ‘admin’ (Using the administrator’s password) and you can instantly start a real-time web based media presentation to everyone else on your drop. No one needs to download anything, there is no registration or installations – it just works, 100% in your browser. So you can say, “meet me at http://drop.io/mypresentation, and let me walk you through the meeting materials” to as big a group as you want.
watch the video – to get a quick sense of how this all works, or please see below
Wetoku is a free service for quick recording and sharing video interviews using your webcam. Wetoku records the videos from both participants in the interview. When you embed the recording, the videos of both participants appear side by side. Kind cool and quite easy.
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