{"id":185,"date":"2003-06-24T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T23:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/06\/24\/some-open-source-voice-chatwhiteboard-packages\/"},"modified":"2003-06-24T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T23:18:54","slug":"some-open-source-voice-chatwhiteboard-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/06\/24\/some-open-source-voice-chatwhiteboard-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Some open-source voice-chat\/whiteboard packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I participated in an online audio conference as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-education.org\/index.php\">open-education group<\/a> that was facilitated using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elluminate.com\/products.jsp\">vClass by Elluminate<\/a>. I had used the software before and each time been very impressed with how well it works. But given that the focus of this group is &#8216;open source&#8217; as it applies to educational content, someone very astutely commented that we should be looking for an open source alternative to vClass to&nbsp;support this group&#8217;s work. This comment really stuck with me, also because a number of institutions in B.C. have been investigating possible solutions to facilitate synchronous online classes, and&nbsp;ending up&nbsp;with some fairly pricey solutions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So I spent some time last week scouring the net for some additional options, as I hadn&#8217;t been aware of many off the top of my head. Here is the short list of other possibilities I came up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lyceum.open.ac.uk\/\">Lyceum<\/a> &#8211; voice over IP w\/ whiteboard from Open University in U.K.&nbsp;(but doesn&#8217;t appear to be have been released publicly)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathcs.emory.edu\/ccf\/\">Collaborative Computing Frameworks for Natural Sciences Research<\/a> (last release August 2000)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cvw.sourceforge.net\/\">Collaborative Virtual Workspace<\/a> (last news item was posted in 2001!)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/speakfree\/unix\/\">Speak Freely for Unix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakfreely.org\/\">Speak Freely<\/a> for Windows (strictly voice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these seem very viable, either because the software is no longer being developed or has never been widely released. I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/hem.fyristorg.com\/matben\/\">Coccinella<\/a>&nbsp;package that George Siemens posted on today sounds interesting too, but it wasn&#8217;t clear to me that it supported voice-chat in addition to text chat and whiteboard. I&#8217;d be very interested to hear of other open source packages if people know about them. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I participated in an online audio conference as part of the open-education group that was facilitated using vClass by Elluminate. I had used the software before and each time been very impressed with how well it works. But given that the focus of this group is &#8216;open source&#8217; as it applies to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/06\/24\/some-open-source-voice-chatwhiteboard-packages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some open-source voice-chat\/whiteboard packages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}