Weblog of Wesley Fryer

ePals is the leading connector
of kids and teachers worldwide: 4.5 million teachers and students, 191
countries

ePals classroom
exchange
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www.epalscorp.com
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www.epals.com/schoolmail
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www.epals.com
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www.epals.com/ementoring

Macromedia
Breeze

can connect
telephone
- for live meetings, recurring
meetings, synchronous media, audio and video conferencing, record and
playback
- is cross platform: mac and
windows
- is a server based
product

If we want we can use
powerpoint and breeze to deliver flash based
content
- 98% of users web browsers now
have flash installed
- for WebEx, only 5%
of people have the player
installed

can do screen
sharing
- can enable application sharing,
can do that by promoting people up in the participant list (make a
student/presenter a participant or host)
–
at that point, the student/other person can take control of the shared
application

application
sharing
- mac cannot request control
out
- windows can go both
ways
- they are working on the problems
with the Mac OS X kernal that is causing problems with macs requesting control
going out

(I guess this means when
you are teaching with breeze and want maximum flexibility, right now you want to
be using a windows computer)

can do
interactive polling
- when you close a
poll, breeze will automatically tabluate
results

Data-Driven Administrator
Seminars by
SAISD
http://itls.saisd.net/admin/ddas

includes
ePrinicpal (schedules, grades, demographics), mVal (PDAS appraisal), eWalk
(lesson evaluation during walkthroughs, Versamail (outlook email
access)