WEB 2.0 – our 1st video conference

Tuesday – 1.30 pm: Our weekly meeting of a still “top-secret“ project started right after English class. Before we actually started working, we went to the cafeteria to prevent Rebecca’s and my death due to starvation and after we had lunch we went to the café on campus “Zeitraum“.

Our project started last week. Ten people were attending the meeting. Exactly one week later, we were only half of the people we started with; Flo, Rebecca, Sebastian, Tobi and I.

Sebastian, Tobi and Rebecca were discussing the topics and Flo was writing the results down, and I was checking out some stuff on the internet and Kersten came online using an instant messenger. He’s the member of the our “secret project“ who was sick Tuesday and had stayed home. After chatting with him for a bit and trying to let him know what we were discussing, we decided to try using a video conference so that he could participate in the meeting without having to get out of the house. It worked out great! At least he was able to follow what was said, we could hear what he had to say and  he could even see us… just too bad he didn’t use a web cam as well… it really worked out much better than I’d expect a video conference to be (especially using a wireless connection)…

I guess we’re becoming more and more online journalists and are starting to use WEB 2.0 features more an more to our advantage…

Video conferences are definitely a great option to use when somebody cannot participate in person but I generally prefer when people are actually attending. (Maybe I am hoping some other members of the group may read this and feel a little more motivated to join our meeting next week again!)

People that want to read up on Kerstens point of view while video conferencing with us click here.