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Re: Video Conferencing Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Dorman)
Thu Jan 27 13:38:05 2011
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:37:37 -0500
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**DISCLAIMER: I work for Blackboard. I do not, however, have any stake in selling our products and the information below is based on my own personal experience.**
When we acquired Wimba a few months ago I started using Wimba Pronto for internal communication and the video performance is great and it was easy to setup. The other video product, Elluminate VCS has also had success working with our larger Tandberg and Polycom units but the integration was a little flaky until we tweaked it.
Ryan Dorman
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Vellucci, Judith M
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Video Conferencing Software
We have a few videoconferencing rooms that remote folks use Movi to connect with, some polycom units, fixed and portable and we have an Adobe Connect presence. The ResNet Board has been using our Adobe Connect for board meetings and the overall response has been good. A few tech glitches when sharing computer screens but nothing that slowed us down, it's actually worked much better (IMHO) than our past method of a conference bridge.
Best,
Judi
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Judi Vellucci
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From: Resnet Forum [RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Erin Nettifee [erin.nettifee@duke.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:20 AM
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Subject: Re: Video Conferencing Software
At Duke we use a variety of tools, including but not limited to Skype, Adobe Connect, Polycom (built-in and portable systems) and Cisco Telepresence (just sort of beginning its life on campus, but really the coolest of the bunch.)
All the tools have their ups and downs. In an ideal world, I think you'd want to be able to support a portfolio of tools, because each of them can do different kinds of things, depending on the situation.
Having said that, I think that Adobe Connect is a fairly solid piece of software and would be worthwhile exploring if you are mandated to provide a particular platform.
Best,
Erin
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Erin Nettifee
Coordinator of Academic Support / Link Liaison Duke University Office of Information Technology erin.nettifee@duke.edu
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On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Susan L LeDuc wrote:
> We at Mount Holyoke are being asked to standardize on Video
> Conferencing software for faculty and staff. Right now Skype has
> served our needs but we forsee faculty wanting to do VC in a broader
> way such as using it for classroom situations. We are looking for
> something that is affordable, and easy to support ( I know we want it all).
>
> Wondering what everyone else is using..... Recommendations?
>
> -Sue LeDuc
> Mount Holyoke College
> Senior Technical Support
>
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