Beyond School

[Update: I just watched the screencast, and found that a lot of the conversation between Jeff in Canada and me in Korea overlapped on it. That's a result of the capture and rendering of the screencast (please, anybody, show me a better tool than SnapzPro for Mac screencasts). When we talked on Vyew, it was a normal phone-like conversation.]

Jeff Whipple and Pat Aroune have been giving their attention to Vyew these days on their blogs, and Jeff and I are “sociallaborating” (to paraphrase Stephen Colbert, “Wired News, I own the copyright on that word.”) a lot lately. So Jeff was kind enough to spend his Canadian (New Brunswick) Saturday night talking to me on Korea’s Sunday morning showing me the ropes. He also showed me his wiki (did I just write that?) so I could get ideas on how to improve my own.

Jeff’s “Whip Blog” explains Vyew better than I could, so go there to read it. Pat Aroune’s blog shares very valuable anecdotes about its social bonding effects on students who use it for homework study sessions. and that’s worth a read too. Pat’s really out front on this.

Since I did a screencast of my session with Jeff last week, I thought I’d just share a few minutes of it here so you could see and hear how it works. A couple more clips from it will be on my Google Video page. They show how users can annotate and work on Powerpoints and other desktop files in Vyew.

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