A Collaborative Journey

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A Collaborative Journey
Anne
Lisa
Kathryn
Jason
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Exploring Various Collaborative Tools

• Thirdvoice, iChat, Intranets and Pow Wow.

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Thirdvoice

• PRO
• Designed well.
• Easy to set up a group page.
• Tool bars are easy to locate and use.
• Excellent tutorials and download directions.

• CON
• Too many groups to look at.
• AOL users need to download Internet Explorer. (60
  minutes)
• Numerous commercials and advertisements.
• Does not have storage space nor has voice
  capability.

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PowWow http//www.tribal.com

• PRO
• Instant Messaging
• File Storage
• Voice Chat
• Real Time Chat
• Home Pages Can be Accessed
• Community Formation
• CON
• Time Scheduling
• No Calendar

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iChat

• PRO
• AOL users do not need Internet Explorer to
  operate.
• Easy to set up private room.
• Instant chats are everywhere.
• Nice tool bar to express emotions.

• CON
• Some links do not work while others are under
  construction.
• Very difficult to go to private room. (navigate,
  go to, type name)
• Way too many instant chats to choose from.
• No voice capability or storage areas.

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Intranets

• Discussion Annes thread on iChat.
• Instant Messages

• PRO
• Tool Bar
• Short Cuts to announcements and e-mail.
• Mailbox
• Documents Kathys NetMeeting
• Calendar

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A Major Step in our Journey Deciding to Focus
on Netmeeting

• After exploring so many different online
  programs, we were looking for an application that
  was relatively common, cost-free, and had a large
  variety of features. Microsofts Netmeeting
  looked like it could meet those basic, beginning
  requirements.

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What is Netmeeting?

• Netmeeting is a synchronous online collaboration
  and communication program. This means that your
  NetMeeting collaboration with others happens in
  real time, over the Internet, empowering you
  and your students to transcend barriers of
  distance. Participants see or hear your comments
  when you make them and can respond immediately.

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Netmeeting Features
PLACE A CALL

• Online Meetings
• Once I place a call I can communicate with a
  fellow group member in the chat window, on the
  whiteboard, through audio, or through
  videoconferencing.

VIDEO CONFERENCING

CHAT
WHITEBOARD
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Netmeeting Features The Basics

• The Chat and White Board are basic features that
  will help computer users who may be intimidated
  by videoconferencing or do not have the camera
  equipment. For those who do not have cameras,
  Netmeeting is similar to Firetalk and allows
  users to audio conference.

You can send private chat messages.
It is possible to save chats.
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Netmeeting The Basics

• The White Board is an excellent way of displaying
  and allowing the group to mark up information.

In this example, a MS word chart was imported for
the meeting participants to write their comments
on.
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Netmeeting Features Program and File Sharing

• A more advanced feature is allowing other meeting
  participants to share a file or even control your
  desktop. You always have the options of
  sharing or unsharing programs or your
  desktop.

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Thoughts on Netmeeting Features.

• We want to get more experience with the file
  sharing features.
• The issue of IP numbers adds time to setting up
  each meeting.
• The ILS Directory

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The People and Places We Saw Along the Way

• Once we decided to focus on NetMeeting, we
  struggled to make connections with each other.
  However, through our struggles we were able to
  locate and identify a wealth of resources. We
  found people who, for a brief moment, joined us
  as we tried to climb over a obstacles set before
  us. The Internet was also a rich resource with
  its tutorials and online support.

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Fellow Travelers

• Rick Banghart
• Office of Teaching and Technology
• Helped test video
• Marcia Witt
• Programmer at MSUs Virtual University
• Found contacts for using NetMeeting at home. She
  also wrote the VUs Turtorial
• Michael Kramizeh
• Helped test the ease of use for MSUs directory

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What is an ILS?

• Problems
• Still having problems sending/receiving calls
• You need to refresh to see new people logged on.
• Benefits
• Tells you when others are online.
• You do not have to trade IP addresses.

• An ILS is an Internet Locator Server
• What does it do?
• When you log on you are identified by your email.
• Your IP is registered.
• Instead of connecting directly using an IP
  address you can just click on the persons name
  in the ILS directory.

For more information go to http//www.meetingby
wire.com/NetMeeting101.htm
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Places to Stop

• NetMeetings Support Site
• http//www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/suppor
  t/default.ASP
• NetMeeting Zone
• http//www.netmeet.net/
• Meeting by Wire
• http//www.meetingbywire.com/
• The South Central Ohio Computer Associations
  site for teachers using NetMeeting
• http//www.scoca-k12.org/netmeeting/

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NetMeeting Tutorials

• MSUs Virtual University Tutorials
• http//ubw101.vu.msu.edu/web/tools/nmeet/
• MSUs Computer Based Training Tutorials
• http//cbtraining.msu.edu/cbtweb/curicula/custom.h
  tm
• UVAs Videoconferencing site
• http//www.itc.virginia.edu/videoconf/
• CTDepot Tutorial
• http//www.ctdepot.com/NetMeeting3.htm

Both MSU sites need a pilot id to access
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Call On a Friend!
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One Mans Story
Our group assignment was to find online
collaboration tools that could be used to support
an online learning community
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NetmeetingUsing it

• I used NetMeeting with our group on three
  separate occasions
• Once in our CEP 800 Classroom
• We used two Pentium Computers with fast ethernet
  connections
• We tried the Voice over IP, chat, applications
  sharing , and Whiteboard simultaneously
• We were editing a Microsoft Word document while
  drawing. And talking into our microphones

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This is me using Netmeetingfor the first time,
In the computer Lab
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This is me using Netmeetingfor the first time,
In the computer Lab
The two parties conferencing could

• Hear each other fine

• Share Applications

• Use the whiteboard, all simultaneously
• No Problems

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NetmeetingUsing it
I used Netmeeting with our group on three
separate occasions

• Once at Home talking to someone at school

• One Pentium Computer with a 56k modem and a dial
  up connection connected to a Pentium Computer
  with an Ethernet connection

• We tried the Voice over IP, chat, applications
  sharing , and Whiteboard simultaneously

• We were fooling around trying to use the
  whiteboard, then chat, and application sharing
  (Microsoft Word, and Powerpoint)

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This is me using Netmeetingfor the second time,
One ethernet to one 56k modem
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This is me using Netmeetingfor the second time,
One ethernet to one 56k modem

• There was some echo and talkback , but mostly
• I could hear the other person

• Application sharing worked most of thetime, but
  it was slow and the windows sometimes disappeared

• The whiteboard worked fine

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NetmeetingUsing it
The third time using Netmeeting, There were
three of us from class, all Using 56k dial up
connections
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This is me using Netmeetingfor the third time,
Three people with 56k modems
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This is me using Netmeetingfor the third time,
Three people with 56k modems
Nothing Worked !!
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This is Jasons Final Analysis of Netmeeting
Netmeeting does what it says it does ,given

• You are connected broadband to broadband , it
  works great!

• You are connected broadband to 56k, and only two
• People are in the meeting, it works O.K.

• You are connected 56k to 56k with more than
• 2 people, Dont bother !