To the Classroom and Beyond :)

Reflecting back on this week, I see podcasts and vcasts being the most liked out of every thing I recently learned by students. I think video conferencing is neat and see many ways to use it in the professional world. In teaching, I would use it the most to conduct online field trips to save money in today's economy. I think I would also use it if a student has to stay at home and I may use it to conduct a parent teacher conference. One minor drawback about video conferencing is that it is not nearly as convenient as a cell phone because you have to be in front of a computer. It's almost like back when I was growing up having the one phone at home that everyone fought for to use. Second phone lines started to eliminate the problem and cell phones solved it. I guess it's only a matter of time before that "cell phone" like convenience will trickle into video conferencing. In a sense it could already be on it's way, I suppose, because cell phones have the Internet. The only downfall is that web service on a cell phone is rather expensive and if you got Internet on your cell to use video conferencing programs, why not just use the cell phone to make a call?