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Adobe Connect [1]
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- Flash/Action script would be easy to prototype new ideas
- Web-enabled, participants don't have to download anything, just go to a URL
- Recording built in
- New "break-outs" allow small group discussion
- Seems like we may be able to create individual views because one person can pause the webcam of another without affecting the global view.
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- Limited individual student flexibility (all students and teacher see the same display)
- Video quality is not as good as others - actually it's unintelligible.
- Video capability when lots of people have webcams, not much flexibility to reshape/zoom/crop video feeds.
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Nope, just need a flash player
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MS Conference XP [2]
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- Individual flexibility, people can move and reshape windows to best suite needs
- Video quality seems good, but that might be because I tried it out on a local dedicated server.
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- Requires dedicated server and network support
- Requires installation and setup that are a little cumbersome
- Requires powerful computer, if not video is terrible (worse than Connect!).
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Yes, heavy weight installation required
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e/pop [3]
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- Individual flexibility, people can move and reshape windows to best suite needs
- Video quality really good
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- Overwhelming for older/less powerful computers
- Expensive
- Not readily available through the web like Connect (requires download, demo, install, ...)
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Easy install, but company makes it heavy weight, and must have a license.
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Cisco's Webex
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- Seems expensive - not sure about video - more geared toward business meeting and sharing desktop apps
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Epresence
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- Expensive service plan and hosting plan, not sure how that fits in with the open source stuff
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