CEP812: Group Leadership Project: Part A - Brainstorm

Whiteboard Screenshot
WizIq Web Conference
04/01/2011

In preparation for our Group Leadership Project, my teammate, Sharlene, and I were both present during the following two recorded web conferences scheduled on:

• Friday, April 1, 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm EST
• Wednesday, April 6, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST

We have chosen to teach WizIq, a web conferencing tool, for professional development.  The group believes that this technology is a great tool that can be incorporated in an online course for adult learning.  WizIq is just one example of a web conferencing tool, and therefore, we will also be showing and comparing other examples of web conferencing tools to give adults more options to use.  The group’s major goal is to provide a tutorial to get adults to be comfortable and knowledgeable of the great benefits of web conferencing.  “Research has shown that adult learners, when properly trained on how to use the technology are highly motivated learners that are capable of absorbing both the content and technological skills necessary to succeed.”[Johnson]

To facilitate the learning, we came up with and will eventually choose one from these two options to demonstrate the tutorial:

• Option 1: Camtasia, a screen recording and video editing software, or
• Option 2: Create short movie clips using Jing (2-3 minutes) per clip, then combine the short clips using a PowerDirector, a video editor software

Since there are only the two of us in the group, we really have to commit ourselves to divide almost every task in the project. During our last conference, we finalized what technology we should be teaching, what technology we should be using for the storyboard, and what are the major topics we should be covering in our storyboard.  Starting today, April 7, Sharlene will be using Jing to record short clips on how to create an account and how to log into WizIq and  I will start laying out the storyboard in Prezi.  We agreed to be always in-touch with each other through phone calls, emails, and discussion posts.  On Friday, April 8, we will be collaborating more on our storyboard by using Prezi.

We have chosen WizIq as our conference tool to record our sessions and it is worth teaching and sharing the features.  The 30-day free account allows us to have a maximum of three 60-min recorded sessions for up to 10 users.  We both can share our screens.  The presenter can give rights to the attendee to have writing, audio, and video sharing. The only disadvantage I could think of is I have not tried it with more than two people but I have seen positive online reviews from educators who conducted big classes using WizIq.