yugma

Yugma Yugma offers a free trial which I signed up for. You then download the software and you can invite users to your meeting. In the free trial period, the attendees also have to register for the basic service. With the premium service, they can skip this step. Your Yugma Free web conferencing account allows you to invite up to 20 attendees - plus, receive a free 15-day trial of Yugma Pro.

Resources:

https://www.yugma.com/support/tutorials/tutorials.php tutorials http://www.webconferencingsoftware.org/yugma.php review article https://www.yugma.com/about/about.php# about Yugma http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/yugma.html Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

SWOT:

Strengths: Allows participants to see the desktop of the "driver". The participants and the driver can switch places.Therefore, questions can be asked and answered with all participants looking on. Chat - There is a public and private chat (IM feature). Upgrade on the fly Invite via email teleconference service offered by Yugma. __In the Pro version (paid):__ The paid version is not all of that pricey: $14.95 monthly and 149.50 annually (17% savings over monthly) for which you get all of the bells and whistles for 20 attendees. Shared File Space settings Playback recorded sessions Share mouse & keyboard Change Presenter Annotation & Whiteboard* Unlimited # of meetings of unlimited time.

Weaknesses: The whole thing is not free.

Opportunities: You can "show" your visual learners There is a social aspect that will facillitate learning - it is like you have been invited to your teacher's house. The playback feature frees the student from worrying about remembering and the student can "live in the moment".

Threats: None. Yugma promises heavy security and the teacher is involved unless the students themselves start a meeting that in my adult setting would be way cool.

Ideas for the Classroom:

This tool would work very well for my Introduction to College Computing and PC Basics classes. I could actually show them how to do something when they are at home and working on their projects. I am going to ask the director of the Department if the department would pay for the Pro Version so the whole department would be more helpful to our students and restore the teacher-student interaction that courseware seems to erase. I would also like to use this in my non-computer classes to show my science students how to search for credentialed sites.