"Navigate 2.1.1 – Delivery Methods and the Synchronous Vendor Market" Quest
Image from http://www.blackboard.com/online-collaborative-learning/blackboard-collaborate-features.aspx
GoToMeeting,
Adobe Connect and WebEx Meeting seem to be fairly similar according to the
review of this website http://www.onlinemeetingreviews.com/compare/.
The main difference I see in ratings is that Adobe Connect has a much lower
score for “Usability.” I am not entirely sure what that means. I currently use
Adobe Connect as a teacher at Georgia Virtual School and find it to be very
easy to use. I use it to present PDF and Power Point as well as video and audio
files. Most of the time, there is no delay in what is presented and student
response. Uploading files and links is basically like attaching a file to an
email, so there are no challenges there. It appears that GoToMeeting and WebEx
offer the same presentation options as Adobe Connect.
It seems
that Google Hangouts is a free meeting platform for up to 10 participants that
many in our school use for teacher meetings. There are challenges in terms of sharing
of presentations because you have to upload to YouTube for all to share. No
collaboration with other tools is available at the moment. There are also no
mobile applications for this platform. In addition, you cannot record the
meeting and there is no desktop sharing.
The
Blackboard website does not readily offer information on what is available in
Collaborate but from the image provided, it appears to offer capabilities
similar to Adobe. Big Blue Button, just like Adobe Connect, offers chat,
polling, record and playback, emoji, desktop sharing, audio, presentation of
PDF or MS office documents, and Web Cam options.
I would
like to try Big Blue Button because its website was the most immediately
information and inviting of all the ones I researched. I would assume that
their product would also be the same way and that makes me interested!
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