Danielle, Chris and I went to tokbox and recorded a tokbox video about tokbox. We discovered that it is an interesting tool with some classroom applications, but that it also has limitations and is evolving all the time.
Students would really enjoy making videos like these--and they could be manufactured COMPLETELY IN THE CLASSROOM using any laptop with a webcam. I'm planning on giving students the opportunity to give short oral reports on rainforest stakeholder groups--maybe I'll use tokbox! The videos could be emailed to me and I could grade them, show them, embed them.
Another good application for education would be the video conferencing feature, that could be used by students working in groups--no more trips to the library to "work on our report"! We can all work from home.
Tokbox is a natural to be combined with screentoaster, as a teacher would combine computer screen presentation pictures with a tokbox video about it.
A tokbox video could be part of a larger presentation made with dabbler, or google presentations (combined with screentoaster) and probably with other tools I don't know about.
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The 3 of you are looking pretty good, and for the whole world to see. Next step is to create some fun ways to use this in a classroom situation.
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