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| The Wimba Whiteboard or Eboard. |
This week I spent hours on Wimba and Skype, meeting with my team members and working on our History of IT project. It was an interesting experience. When I took online classes before, they were asynchonous and our group projects involved emails and posts, not live communication. After using Wimba for this, I do not know how I will be able to give it up at the end of our class. I will have to use something like
Adobe Connect or
Go to Meeting to get a similar experience. As I use Wimba more, I learn new things. I took the tutorials a while ago, so I was relieved when Brian showed us how to get the whiteboard feature back by pressing the eboard button. I also learned about project management this week and gant charts. I've never heard of them before and apparently people have been using them forever.
"What a concept!" Amy, my professor, was pushing us to use a free Web 2.0 tool. I found
Tom's Planner, it looks very visual and you can share your chart online. Another I found was
Basecamp. It will be interesting to see what my friend Adrienne, the quintessential project manager, writes in my comments. Anyway, my team member may choose a product that she is comfortable with over the ones I just mentioned. We will have to wait and see.
