PART A - Brainstorm Session

Untitled from Alex Gonzalez on Vimeo.


The video clip above is a recording of my group's web-conferencing brainstorming session. As mentioned in my previous blog post, it was a neat experience and the platform we used is something I will keep in mind when thinking of suggestions for educators I support.

We went with Vyew as the platform and had our ups and downs during the conference. The advantages of this platform were plenty. It is a free service, it offers a fairly straightforward interface, and allowed us to use audio and video to communicate, as well as some basic collaboration features including the shared canvas. I would say that these are essential to achieving progress in a web-conference when collaborating on a project. The neat thing about this service is that it is all in one. While we could have used Skype, we wouldn't necessarily be sharing a screen, unless we were sharing a Google Doc at the time of the session.

One of the disadvantages was, perhaps just for us, the inability to find how to record our session to be able to share it. Since we were not able to find how to record it, we used ScreenFlow to capture and edit our session, and then published it to the web with Vimeo. Since our session exceeded the YouTube time limitations, Vimeo allowed us to upload a longer clip. We adjusted to the situation and were still able to capture our session, but it would be nice to figure it out, perhaps next time we use Vyew we will come across that feature.