Theresa B’s WBLog

Ali Marie and I tried out Brio last week.  It is a free web meeting service with which you can you communicate and collaborate through an online personal meeting room.

Brio is built on Adobe’s Flash platform, and operates inside a web browser.

It allows you to:

• Host unlimited online meetings with up to 3 meeting participants.
• Interact through screen sharing, chat and whiteboards.
• Access a meeting via a personalized URL.
• Distribute documents and files to meeting participants.
• Use integrated VoIP, teleconferencing and multi-point video.

We found that access to the meeting was quick and the screen sharing worked well but we had some difficulties with the sound.  It’s worth a try even though the numbers who can participate are limited to 3.

We are planning to run E Guides forums to provide support for staff developing e learning solutions within Work Based Learning and Adult & Community Learning organisations. These will give E Guides the opportunity to share good practice, develop new skills in the hands on technology sessions and network with other providers. To tell us what kind of form you would like these forums to take you can fill out our survey.

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Miro is a free open source video platform which enables you to play any video file, save Youtube videos etc. The Miro site says:

“Unlike tiny videos on websites like YouTube, Miro videos are usually very high quality and look great when watched full screen. Since Miro downloads videos completely before you watch, your videos will never skip or stutter while they are playing.”

When you download Miro you can then choose for the programme to find all the videos on your computer. I found some I didn’t even know I had.

On the Miro website there is also a guide on how to make internet TV and covers shooting, editing, publishing and promoting the film.