VIDIZMO

Resources
[|VIDIZMO Website]

[|Overview of VIDIZMO]

Strengths

 * Can be created in minutes. Not time consuming.
 * Allows you to interact with your audience using quizzes and polls.
 * Instant reports.
 * Can be used with other Microsoft programs such as, SharePoint and Live Meeting.
 * Works with all browsers on PC and Mac giving its users variability.
 * Allow you to communicate with others at any time.
 * Offers both Public and Private viewers.
 * Free 30 day trial.
 * Completely customizable.
 * Can be accessed anywhere.

Weaknesses

 * Costs a good deal of money after the free trial is over.
 * Takes some training to be used effectively.

Oppotunities

 * Can be used in the classroom to record lectures, as well as to provide further clarification for at home assignments.
 * Also could be used in administration meetings for presentations and to record the information for later reviewing.
 * Could provide missed information to individuals.

Threats

 * Cannot track if students are watching the information and how they are using the information.
 * Users will need access to a computer and to the internet which could create bias towards some students without these resources available to them.
 * Doesn't take into account students that have visual or auditory deficiencies, once again creating a bias.

Ideas for the Classroom

 * Could be used to record lectures that students could access at a later time online to review the information.
 * Teachers could record directions for at home projects so that students could review them and parents could hear them first hand.
 * Administrators could use the program to get information out when there was not enough time for sit-down meetings.
 * The quiz option could be used for testing the students on their independent work.