Group Leadership Project Part A

My group chose to focus our project on how to create a blog.  The technology that we will be using to teach about blogging is Camtasia. 

1.            What web conferencing tool did your group use?

The web conferencing tool that our group chose to use was Yvew.  This was the first time that I have used this tool and found it to be very useful. 

2.            What were the advantages to using the web

conferencing tool to discuss this project?

There were many advantages of using this tool in order to discuss the project.  One advantage was it was free to use.  One person from the group set up a meeting and sent the link out to everyone else.  When we arrived in the “room” we had the choice to use video, voice, or a chat feature.  We choose to just use the chat feature for this meeting.  Another advantage to this tool was that everyone could edit the document that we created during the conference.  Each person was able to add to the document and participate in creating the way to present our information.  I found this conferencing tool to be simple to use and very effective for our purpose. 

3.   What were the disadvantages to using the web conferencing tool to discuss this project? 

One disadvantage that I found when using Yvew was when I was exporting our entire conversation and the pages we created.  Some of the formatting changed and it was unreadable.  In order to solve this problem, I had to copy and paste our conversation into a word document. 

 Here is a summary of what we talked about during our meeting:

Here is a link to our entire conversation from our meeting.