[Web4lib] Re: Web4lib Digest, Vol 30, Issue 13

[Sigrid Kelsey]

Forwarding for a colleague:

Thanks folks,
I received a lot of good replies in regard to the web conferencing
software and I am summarizing them below.  Hope everyone has a nice
weekend.
Kelly

There is a really great article on this topic that discusses and
evaluates this type of software:

The World Is Our Campus; Synchronous collaboration software lets
universities unite colleagues, students and researchers from all over
the globe. Here we evaluate nine products NETWORK COMPUTING, April 13,
2006, FEATURE; Pg. 57, 4647 words, Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn And Divya
Kurup

Kelly - We use NetMeeting at EDS.  It lets others see your screen but
you can toggle screen control on and off as need be.

We also use eRoom as a place to do collaborative, sequential sharing
of spreadsheet and other documents we work on as a team.  We use
Outlook for e-mail and a Microsoft tool for instant messaging (I don't
remember the name of it); we just switched from Jabber a couple of
weeks ago.  Jabber is another one you can use.

We don't use VOIP.  I think there may be security issues.  I think it
sounds kind of hollow anyway.

Just some ideas.

Suzanne Ogden
EDS Global Business Library
Plano, Texas

Yes, this past spring I completed a Web based course titled
Interactive design.This class was part of the distance learning
Library & Information Science Masters Program I am in enroled in at
Drexel University. In our class, we used Wikipedia for posting group
projects, text messaging and inside a special white board (VMT) was
used group interaction, collaboration and group cognition. You may
want to take a look at our Virtual Math Teams
(http://mathforum.org/vmt/researchers/orientation.html) tool on the
Math forum on the Internet. The text book that we used was Interactive
Design: beyond human-computer interaction 2nd ed. Professor Gerry
Stahl of Drexel University is on the cutting edge. He is published
much on this topic. I got received an A in the his class. You can
contact me, if you would like.

Thanks
Brian
Brian Umstead
Acquisitions Supervisor/Specialist
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Knowledge Services/Information Services
441 G St N.W.
Room 7435
Washington, DC 20548

Greetings -

I have used this system within SecondLife along with  some recent
conferences.  It seems to work very well and is supported by Alliance,
which is a multi-type library system - academic, school, public,
health sciences.  I think the cost is $500 per year.

http://www.opal-online.org/index.html

Sincerely -
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Kelly –
Here's a link for a program recommended by one of my friends.
http://www.digitalsamba.com/products/index.php

Jenna
Jenna Ryan
Assistant Librarian -- Middleton Library
Liaison to the Department of Biological Sciences and the School of the
Coast and Environment
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
225-578-2950
jryan1 at lsu.edu

The University of Minnesota uses Adobe Connect (the old Breeze software).

I have used it for teaching in several places at the same time and we
are using it for the Sci-Tech Program planning committee for Seattle.
If you want me to show you something and discuss it a bit more, let me
know.

It's easy to set up a session and not everyone has to belong to the
"home"  institution - just the one setting up the session.

Pam Enrici
Engineering Librarian
Univ. of MN., Duluth (on the shores of Lake Superior) penrici at d.umn.edu
218-726-8586