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Teaching with Technology
Adobe Connect is aprogram developed for conference and meeting usage over the
internet. It allows multiple people connect, talk and share, all while seeing each other
through webcams. The basic set up is to host a conference room, or in school usage, a
virtual classroom, that can be accessed by any computer. The students can then join up
the session as a participants, who can see and access the host's audio and video feed, as
well as any materials shared on platform by the host, including pdf's, powerpoint
presentations, images or simply hand drawn pictures that can be done on the virtual
whiteboard. The program can also feed live video stream from a document camera,
provided that the internet-connection can support such a big data streaming. The
program is developed by the Adobe company, which most of us know for making the
common pdf-reader, Adobe Acrobat. The company has also made some well-known
designer tools, such as Photoshop and InDesign.
Adobe Connect, although made mainly for conference usage, has proven to be one of
the many useful platforms to teach a classroom or individual students online. The
platform has a wide array of features, that a skillful teacher can use in a virtual
classroom. The usual tools for sharing files and webcam feed from the teacher was
already mentioned, which should cover most of the usage, but there are a few handy
tools still usable by the teacher. One of these tools is break-out rooms, which allows the
teacher to split up the students into different sub-classrooms. In here, the students can
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