Sunday, December 09, 2007
How to Use a Virtual Whiteboard
Talking Communities Demonstrates How to Use a Virtual Whiteboard
One of the basic parts of any web conferencing software is the ability to improvise in real-time. Whether it is a virtual meeting, an online course, or a webcast presentation, not everything can always be prepared and created in advanced. That is where the whiteboard comes in handy.
On December 12 at 10:00 am Central (11 am Eastern), Talking Communities will be providing a free training workshop on the use of the whiteboard in an online web conference room. In this workshop, you will learn how to capture your screen and instantly display it to others in the room, or display an image from your desktop or the Internet. You will learn the various methods of highlighting, including color highlight, drawing boxes, or zooming.
You will also learn how you can display an uploaded PowerPoint presentation from the Document Center into the whiteboard for highlighting slides, or even display a PowerPoint presentation dynamically right from your desktop. This avoids the need to first upload the presentation to the Document center and assures security of the presentation files. “The whiteboard has a little bit of a learning curve”, explains Steven Hoffmann, president of Talking Communities. “But once you learn the techniques, it can be a very powerful tool for distance education or document collaboration”, he adds.
In one case study of the power of the whiteboard, Digital Workforce Education Society (http://www.digibridge.org) used the whiteboard to allow participants on older computers and slower, dial-up Internet connections, to participate in an on-line event held in Second Life (a 3-D virtual world system). By capturing and displaying screenshots of Second Life and displaying them in the whiteboard while allowing the participants to text chat and speak to each other using the built-in VOIP architecture and instant messaging, DWES opened the doors for participation by many individuals that otherwise would have been excluded in the “digital divide”.
The whiteboard workshop is open to the public and can be accessed at http://www.talkingcommunities.com/moodle. To participate, you will need a PC connected to the Internet. If you have a microphone, you will be able to speak in the workshop using the VOIP voice conferencing, but those without a microphone may still participate by typing their questions.
Posted by Bob Zwick on 12/09 at 03:29 PM
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