Skypecasting
This could prove to be a pretty interesting online educational tool. Imagine teachers being able to post a discussion question or assignment on their blog. Or as a corporate trainer with a dispersed training audience beign able to combine WBT with ILT. At a predetermined time participants / students could Skype into an online synchronous discussion on the topic.
SAN FRANCISCO–Internet telephony provider Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in the next version of its Net telephone product, co-founder Niklas Zennström said Tuesday night at the Web 2.0 Summit here.The next version of Skype will enable people to post a link on a blog or Web site that will take people to a public chat room when clicked on, he said during a question-and-answer session during dinner.The live chats would be “Skypecasts,” which Zennström described as public conversations or audio conferences that people can moderate. He would not provide a timeline for the features except to say it would be “soon.”
‘Skypecasts’ coming to your blog soon | Tech News on ZDNet
While it is more of an evolution of technology than a revolution, this looks like it could hold a lot of promise. Again it’s all about bringing the learning to the learners. This is just another example of that.
