In preparation for our first official group meeting tomorrow morning, two of my group members met me in different web/video conferencing sites to test out their functionality. I first met Courtney in a room I created on Vyew. We ran into a lot of snags. Her windows and buttons in Vyew were grayed out and she could not click on anything. I played with the room settings and such to no avail. She could see everything I was doing, creating, and sharing, but could not contribute anything. She was able to chat which did give us the opportunity to discuss our next move: try a different site.
At that point Courtney decided to create a meeting in Webinar. Courtney was able to share her screen and documents, but we could not find a way to give the sharing role to me. We ran out of time and had to end our meeting there.
Afterwards I was able to meet up with Brian in a Vyew room he created. I was able to chat with him and he showed me some cool options he had discovered including the math equation editor. He had also created a calendar in the room and he and I were able to attach comments to the calendar to show our availability for the group meeting. Brian was also able to test out using Jing to record the session and it worked.
I used the Helps section to give Courtney some ideas on how to get the Vyew room to work for her. Downloading the newest version of Flash seems to have solved the problem. I look forward to the meeting tomorrow. Collectively we seem to like Vyew better than other sites especially because it is free (unlike Adobe Connect) and offers much more options than Webinar. I especially liked that I was able to log into the room/meeting from my computer at school. Bonus!
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