Editing Wikis and Teamviewer/Webconferencing

 

Activity 4:1 Editing Wikis and Teamviewer/Webconferencing

For this week's Digital Learning Technologies class, this week we were asked to edit one of the wiki pages for the following forms of social media tech: eMail, discussion boards, instant messaging, facebook, Linked-in, pinboards or Web conferencing.

I have chosen to update the web conferencing page, specifically Team Conferencing.

See below the updates I have made to the Wiki,.

I have updated the below in the Wiki

Advantages and Disadvantages of Teamviewer and Webconferencing

There are lots of advantages to using web-conferencing facilities

• Reduces the need for trainers to be in classroom
• Large audience can be reached
• Audio option
• Advises who is talking to the call
• Allows for an interactive audience with the ability to share control and file share
• Encourages collaboration and listening to others

A few disadvantages can be

• Issues have meeting across multiple time zones
• Issues with hardware / and software as with any digital technology
• Issues with connectivity
• Background noise

During previous employment at DHL, I used many web-based conference facilities to communicate with customers, partners and other branches around the world, we used a variety of applications Microsoft Lync, Skype to Teamviewer and WebEx. I found all of the options simple to use, I was involved in several large projects while working for DHL on the Hewlett Packard account, web conferencing was ideal when communicating and training with people across the world.

Even the UK government use web conferencing, below an example of William Hague taking part in a web-conference with other world leaders.

Reference: Personal reference through employment with DHL