Collaboration using the web
Video conferencing over Internet using whiteboard (KBS-Media Lab, Lund University, 1996).
See also example from the 'Basic WWW for secretaries and teachers' course 1999 at http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/education/secretary_teacher_1/lecture_5.html [local]
According to Melanie Hills, 1997, "Intranet as Groupware".
Groupware does the following things
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- Helps two or more people work together
- Lets them share knowledge and expertise
- Automates their activities
- Helps create an orgnizational memory
- Bridges geography and time
- Think
- Learn
- Brainstorm
- Write
- Design
- Create
- Analyze
- Decide
- Share
- Discuss
- Present"
Further reading
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See also 'Collaboration systems/environments'
- Netmeeting from Microsoft. (Application sharing /many/, remote control, white board and communication /video/sound only 2 participants/) http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/
- Timbuktu from Netopia. (Application sharing, communication, remote control) http://www.netopia.com/software/tb2/
- A small example on a simple set-up for
PBL, Problem Based Learning, on the web. http://milvus.kstr.lth.se/livstek/. Including tools in context/verktyg i kontext, http://milvus.kstr.lth.se/livstek/index2.html (CuSeeMe, Cooltalk, Netmeeting, QickCam etc.).
- http://thinkofit.com/webconf/. Web conferencing/learning system