By Kent Brooks, Brian Carpenter and Steve Prater of Western Oklahoma State CollegeWestern Oklahoma State College has faced fiscal constraints for a long time. We are the classic portrait of Rural America. We see substantial population loss in rural counties, an aging demographic and declining fertility rates. Deaths vastly exceed births, schools are closing, their contents auctioned, and families are selling the farm.
These fiscal constraints have prevented us from even looking at certain IT projects in the past. Web Conferencing has long been a dilemma for me. I really love some of the commercial products available. There is no doubt that products such as WebEx and GoToMeeting Elluminate-Wimba aka Blackboard Collaborate or something like that etc. provide a tremendous service and a way to share knowledge. I have been involved in numerous sessions with all of these products and others as well. All of the products provide some way to show audio and/or video from a presenter, share slides, documents, images etc, a chat function to assist with interaction and then finally a recording feature.Different degrees of features and customization within each product then add to the complexity of the product. The myth in all of this is that I don’t really need all of the features that are available with many of these services.
These fiscal constraints have prevented us from even looking at certain IT projects in the past. Web Conferencing has long been a dilemma for me. I really love some of the commercial products available. There is no doubt that products such as WebEx and GoToMeeting Elluminate-Wimba aka Blackboard Collaborate or something like that etc. provide a tremendous service and a way to share knowledge. I have been involved in numerous sessions with all of these products and others as well. All of the products provide some way to show audio and/or video from a presenter, share slides, documents, images etc, a chat function to assist with interaction and then finally a recording feature.Different degrees of features and customization within each product then add to the complexity of the product. The myth in all of this is that I don’t really need all of the features that are available with many of these services.
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