One of the difficulties I am having is teaching my online students how to use particular pieces of software or hardware since I am not meeting them face-to-face which would allow them to touch and see the equipment.
My son (6th grade) suggested I use iChat AV with my iSight camera to illustrate to them what they need to learn. Of course, I’ll have to instruct them on (1) how to set up an AIM account, (2) how to download the software (3) how to start up the program, (3) enter my username, (4) access the video portion, and (5) how to send me text messages. Of course, I could only do this with one person at a time so that is a disadvantage of this but it
is synchronous.
My thought is to put together a video and then either put it on the web or burn it to either a CD or DVD. Not synchronous but does avoid bandwidth limitations.
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