I've used a variety of synchronous/web conferencing tools over the last few years - Elluminate, Horizon, Centra, etc. While the technology and potential is great, the price generally isn't (I've requested access to their tools in the past as a means of running online presentations for elearnspace readers - they provide the tools, I provide exposure of their products to a fairly large number of potential clients - my emails have been ignored). Recently I've started using a simple tool from Talking Communities (they provide an education community for educators to connect and explore the tool). While TC isn't as feature-rich as other tools, it works and it's very affordable. I will offer a series of online workshops over the next month with this tool. Let me know if there are any topics in particular you would like presented.
Posted by gsiemens at February 4, 2005 03:26 PM