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WEB CONFERENCE BLOG

I participated in a web conference on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. Members of the conference discussed their questions with Dr. Abernathy concerning the details of the assignment for Weeks 3-5 in the Multimedia and Video Technology course. Many members were able to link up with others to form their group for the PSA project. My experiences with web conferences have been that I usually get one or two good pieces of information from them. I would prefer to read the manuscript or log from the conference later in an effort to use my time more wisely. It seems that for the amount of time I invest in web conferencing, the time could be put towards getting work done on my assignment for the course, reading the script from the conference as a reference guide to help me if and when I needed more clarity with my assignment.

SECOND WEB CONFERENCE BLOG

I participated in a web conference on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. Dr. Abernathy opened the discussion up for any questions that we had. Clarificatins were given as to how to submit our assignment this week (posting a link in the discussion board to our wiki showing our collaborative efforts for our PSA assignment). Further details were discussed such as having two narrators for our PSA and keeping the time under 60 seconds. Once again, I believe that I did gain some clarification about a few details of the assignment and how to submit it this week,however, I still believe that my time would be better spent working on my assingment. Reading the transcript of the web conference would be my preferred method of using my time more wisely. If I really had my preference, I would rather a clarification notice be sent our in an email or on our announcement page in the courseware to relay this information to me as opposed to attending a web conference.

THIRD WEB CONFERENCE BLOG
I participated in a third web conference on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. Dr. Abernathy immediately stated that this conference would be very brief. Questions were asked and answered clarifying what needed to be submitted for our final week's work. Because this was a very short web conference, I did not feel this time that my time was eaten up. I liked this conference because it was very direct. People were not sending messages to each other in the group about their project, which was very distracting in the previous conference. Overall, I would still prefer to read the transcripts from the web conferences as opposed to listening to them live. This saves time on my part, which I need to use towards completing my assignments.