MasterView International
by Luigi Canali De Rossi
September 15th, 2002
New online technology allows Presenters and Trainers to deliver
live presentations online with crystal clear audio sessions
by Luigi Canali De Rossi
Do you want to Train and Present online live?
Are you looking for an alternative to the high cost of WebEx,
Placeware and other conferencing systems?
If you are a Trainer, Professor or Expert and need to present
your know-how to groups of people online, there is a new
interesting technology that I have recently discovered, and
that allows you to do following:
1) Talk online with up to 25 people with high quality audio
2) Show your PowerPoint presentation live to all participants
3) Sync surf to different web sites with all of your
participants
4) Text chat
5) Send files directly to participants during the presentation
6) Listen to participants audio feedback
Further you can moderate your group and talk or send specific
messages to individual participants.
The great advantage of this tool over similar technologies is
that it offers unparalleled audio quality, real-time exchange
with no or little delay, a stable ad-free private environment
to work in, no software to install, registration or other
frustrating task for whoever you invite into the room. First
time you access it a short automatic download installs all you
need in less than a minute.
There are a lot more applications to this technology that I can
possibly list here, but let me list some of the most
appropriate for the ones of you who teach, train and support
students and trainees of all kinds:
a) Virtual Office for professors to give students support -
Don't need to be on campus anymore.
b) Mentoring tool for online educators who need to show
materials, presentations or web pages to their remote students.
c) Customer service or support area for an academic or
university web site. When people have a problem can access this
room and can receive immediate help by a live person via text,
voice and can be even guided to appropriate pages and links.
d) Hold live group discussions with your class by playing the
moderator and providing means for students to support their
arguments by showing a web site or a presentation they have
posted online.
e) Have remote peer learning groups show their presentations
and present them live to other participants at remote
locations.
f) Meeting room for students to discuss and analyze issues,
projects and assignments. To provide opportunities and
technology-based facilities for students to meet and interact,
a private virtual room in which they can freely talk, text
chat, exchange files and show each other web pages or
presentations.
g) Expert Presentation Room. You may have an expert lecturer,
or a guest speaker around for a day only or for just a few
hours. Through the Virtual Room you can make your guest
accessible by all class participants and people can pose direct
questions to him/her via voice or via text chat.
Come and check out this simple but revolutionary tool. It can
be put to work now. Go to http://www.masternewmedia.org/vcom.htm
and click on Join Me in my Virtual Office. Use any name to get
in.
If you have tested it and feel excited by what you have seen
and are interested in finding out more please send an email to:
Luigi.Canali@masternewmedia.org
You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.
