This week’s installment.

I was in the group that reviewed Vyew.com. I thought this application has a lot of potential for teaching and learning once they iron out some of the kinks. Right now it seems to require too much bandwidth. The application froze or crashed a couple o times while we were using it. Another problem that we observed in our group was that because it had too many features it would be easy for the instructor or the course facilitator to loose control because the many bells and whistles can be distracting. This happened in our group. Once we were given free reign to use al the features we all inevitable tended to want to test everything out and to almost deviate from the task at hand. In spite of these downsides, I think that with proper planning an instructor can turn this into an advantageous medium for imparting curriculum. I believe that once they solve the bandwidth issue this could be a great tool for it enables learners to participate synchronously or asynchronously depending on the needs of the learner or the curriculum objectives. I have added this to my bookmarks and will continue to explore its functionality for I think there are some things that can be exploited here. It is true that many of the features here are already found in Skype or other applications, but sometimes taking an existing idea and expanding it to a higher level is better that coming up with a new one that might not be as good.