As a person who has had experience with video conferencing, I became very impatient with the web conference in the instructional leadership class. In most of my experiences with video conferencing it has been with only one other person and with three at most. With this web conference there were over one hundred people participating which made it very difficult to absorb everything taking place. Not all participants had use of a web camera so the format was mostly question and answer through typing alone. Because of the vast amount of people typing in questions, only about one sixth of them could be answered. It was a very inefficient way to share and relay information amongst colleagues.
As far as applying this experience I think web conferencing has great potential for educators to meet on a variety of issues quickly when not all participants can be in the same location. This could be used for educational issues such as board meetings, weekly principal meetings and even parent teacher conferences.
For web conferencing to be successful the number of participants need to be limited so all participants can be fully involved in the discussion.
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