Last night we were introduced to Webex. It was very impressive. Being able to chat via text, audio and video, and also share documents and files, I could see many posibilities for use in the classroom, including primary school. It could also be very useful for professional development activities between rural schools.
Justine was very knowledgeable and demonstrated some of the possibilities, including sharing documents and being able to highlight them, which would be great. I liked the control she had as a presenter, and use of ticks, hands and emotions if one wanted to participate. I felt the tutorial did end up becoming a bit technical and turned into a sales pitch towards the end.
Overall I thought it was probably the best application we have used so far, with many benefits for schools and good security controls. However, while I thought the system was great and would really benefit schools, especially small rural schools like mine, the costs involved would be prohibitive, especially to schools that would benefits most (the small ones) with limited budgets.
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