Convea:
Quote: "Convea (pronounced Conveyor) has been designed to improve business communication, collaboration and coordination."
Comment: I spent the evening playing with this new software tool. Looks great (similar to Groove, but it's not peer-to-peer). It recently went open source, even though, it currently only works with Windows. With that said, I think it has great potential. I've stated previously that the best teaching/learning tool I've come across is Groove. I used it several years ago during a pilot with several classes (we still use it in our department for collaboration). The comments and results were better than anything I've since experienced with an LMS. I think this is due to the difference in intent between an LMS (like Blackboard or WebCT) and collaborative software (like Groove or Conveya). An LMS is a teaching tool. Collaborative software is a communications/sharing tool. That difference has a huge impact on the learning process.
If you want to explore, the Conveya site allows you to setup a demo account to test it out before downloading...my reaction is that this is a valuable tool that has great potential for learning. I'll throw it out to the Open Education group as a platform for collaborating...
George, on the client side it says it only requires IE, not 'Windows' per se (but maybe only IE on Windows, wasn't entirely clear). Maybe we could get someone on a Mac to try it out using IE. I recognize this might not satisfy *everyone*, but at least it would mean 2 platforms you could use it on right now. And the company does seem like they are investigating other platforms and browser clients which is a positive sign. A great find! Thanks for sharing it. Cheers, Scott.
Posted by: Scott Leslie at June 26, 2003 11:30 AM