Its me again, Tracy, and my topic for tonight deals with a web 2.0 tool - VYEW.com. I found this tool through my search from GO2Web20.net. My main focus during this search was to find a web based tool that could be easily used within my environment to encourage collaboration and a sense of community. Now don't get me wrong I know that there are a lot of social networking tools available in technology today. Due to my current school district's restrictions on certain web based platform medias such as (Twitter and Facebook) I needed to find a tool that could be used either at a school during the planning day as well as user-friendly and could also be used when you are home. Most of time in my current working environment, a typical school day does not lend itself easy for teachers to fully collaborate with one another. By this time many of us get home we find that we need a listening ear to bounce ideas off of or offer advice to us on what we can do to make collaboration work within our environment. This help tends to come through other means such as by using the telephone, online social networks (Facebook and Twitter) which has unfortunately gotten a lot of people in trouble. So as I reflected on what I needed to accomplish for this assignment that I could also incorporate it in my Action Research I came across VYEW.com. Below I recorded some of my tour for this interesting web 2.0 tool .
I want to first say this application is pretty cool. What I have discovered from playing around in VYEW.com has been the amount of things you can accomplish. When looking for a quick and easy tool to host meetings outside of the norm I found this to be a great asset. I really liked that tutorial guide that is provided by VYEW.com and did I mention that this tool is absolutely free. The tutorial guide takes you page by page and gives free access to creating as you learn.
If you look at the screenshot below you can see how simple it is to follow and create on this software. This first screen is an actual page I entitled Tracy's Sample This is the Meeting room page and as you can a lot of different sources can be added here and as with every page in this software you can take notes using a sticky note pad.
I was able to include a screen shot insert of my desktop here, just to test the usability of the various insert options in this room. You can also insert images, urls just to name a few. I played around with the edit tool to familiarize myself with the features and I have to say it was fun going though the maze.
I tried to capture in my footage how easy it is to invite members to your room. As the moderator or creator of your room you can delegate what members in your room can do within the Meeting place. I feel it is extremely important to show how many different ways this one tool can be used. For my coworkers who may not necessary like getting on the computer to learn new and exciting things I felt feature would definitely help in calming those fears.
The images in the video shows one room I started creating for a tutorial presentation for my current coworkers who will play a vital part in helping me with my Action Research. I wanted to demonstrate just how user friendly this tool is and what it has to offer in regards to building collaborations with each other.
Some of the advantages I found while touring this web 2.0 tool was how easy was to register, the convenience of creating meeting rooms, uploading content, scheduling meetings, making comments, 4 different ways to communicate and the total presentation all together. Because this is a free tool that can be used anyway I know the adaptability for my current working environment will be very smooth. Well my blog world friends thats it for now until next time take a tour, try something new and incorporate something different in your environment. It makes for a more interesting conversation.
Signing out for tonight, take care......
