1.30pm Thursday

Michael Coghlan - Finding your voice online Workshop session

Demonstrated a range of tools for VOIP and simultaneous text chat, interactive whiteboards etc.

Yahoo messenger webcam and chat service- free of charge but has some advertising. Both chat and audio are active at the same time.

Workshop had some initial difficulties to start with - working between dialup & broadband is not normally a problem with quality.

In written text start to form an impression - hearing the voice changes this to a more accurate picture

Yahoo does not require huge amounts of tech or broadband.

Learning Times
Wimba voice board
Also have voice chat tool need to join community to get free access. Community of voices

Elluminate virtual classroom vClass

Instant messaging

Whiteboard
Can throw up prepared pages here.
Audio
-Better quality of audio than the yahoo group but that may have just been the link
Some students felt uncomfortable speaking into the microphone. Although high use of technology in Denmark there are still barriers to be overcome with familiarity
Within the virtual classroom there is a facility to raise your hands to indicate that you wanted to speak.
Who would use the telephone if the answering machine was the technology?
Jonathon Finklestein in New York involved in the setting up of the Learning Times

Whiteboard - can insert pictures as well as text or diagrams
Also has application sharing utility.

Voice is not just about verbal and hearing but also personality- uploading 'mugshots'