Mar

18

Polycom Business Media Phone

March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Polycom has just introduced the VVX 1500 – a business media phone that combines a personal video conferencing system with a fully featured voice over IP (VoIP) telephone with Polycom HD Voice™ and an open application programming interface (API) and microbrowser for real-time delivery of personalised Web content as well as integration with key business [...]

Mar

16

Web conferencing on your smart phone

March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In April you’ll be able to web conference from your smart phone with WebEx. This video explains all.

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Mar

13

Learning Technologies Conference

March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Learning Technologies Conference will be 19 & 20 November this year – again at Mooloolaba on Queensland’s beautiful Sunshine Coast. The website and call for papers will be available in the first week of April.
Keep up to date at the website where you can sign up for notifications. In the meantime you can check out [...]

Mar

11

Cisco CUVC

March 11, 2009 | 3 Comments

This video shows Cisco’s desktop unified videoconferencing solution (CUVC). It includes voice, video & data and connects with Cisco’s room & telepresence systems.

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Mar

9

Educational Software on Cell Phones

March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

This is not videoconferencing – but I thought I’d share it considering the most recent poll we had here on whether mobile/cell phones should be allowed in classrooms. (See poll results. Check ‘overview’ & ‘country tabs’)
Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed software aimed at turning cell phones into educational tools for K-12 [...]

Mar

6

New chat box

March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I’ve added a new chat box as a trial. You’ll find it in the left-hand column just below my picture. You can chat with anyone who is online at the time. Please try it out & if it’s useful I’ll leave it there.
NOTE: as of 12 March I’ve removed the chat box as it wasn’t [...]

Mar

3

New Videoconference Book: Tips, Tricks & Techniques for Great Videoconferences

March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

Finally I’ve compiled my 4 videoconference eBooks into one print book: Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Great Videoconferences. The great news is that it’s on special until the end of March: only $9.95 USD (a 25% saving) AND the ebooks have been reduced to $4.95 USD each to celebrate. Buy now.
This is a general book [...]

Mar

2

Comment via video or audio

March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I’ve just added Riffly to this blog. (If you’re an Edublogs user you just activate it in your plugins list and it’s automatically enabled.)
Now you can leave a comment via video or audio. When you click the ‘Comments’ link you’ll be given the option of recoding yourself by webcam or microphone. The system auto detects [...]