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  Hi Amber:

I've used several of these products.  Blackboard/Elluminate are the same 
thing -  I like this product for delivering web-based real time 
professional development.  The audience can see me, my presentation. I 
can share my desktop and go out to the web.  The audience can  chat, use 
icons to respond to questions.  You can upload a simple powerpoint ahead 
of time , negating the need to share a desktop and that makes things 
much less laggy.  If you want your audience to be able to talk , that is 
use voice over IP, everyone needs a head set..

But web-ex is very similar. I have never led a web-ex presentation, but 
have been a participant. When I've been on a web-ex meeting , we usually 
call in over a telephone line, and  someone shares their desktop for a 
presentation.

As for project management, I have used Basecamp and do not like it.  The 
way the files/discussions are stored it just isn't intuitive.  I was 
always searching for things.  I prefer Central Desktop- better 
organization,  you can work on a document together online, you can have 
meetings, all in one place.

If you are a small group though, why not a Google Site - you have a web 
presence, can share docs, and calendars, and can hold meetings with 
Google hangout. And it's all free.

Sue Ann
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Amber Inwood wrote:
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> Aloha all,
> As part of the Bishop Museum NASA funded 'Celestial Islands' project, we
> are collaborating with 6 Elementary teachers state wide to develop a 3-5th
> grade, standards aligned curriculum. As the teachers are geographically
> separated, we are wanting to set up a good online collaborative tool which
> will double for project management. Ideally the tool will allow the Museum
> to collaborate with  at minimum the following abilities: File, video and
> image sharing, member profile, discussion forums, scheduling (calendar),
> project timeline and task management, brainstorming, web conferencing etc.
>
> The 6 member teacher team as well as other project partners have suggested
> Ecommons, Elluminate, Basecamp, Ning, Blackboard and WebEx given their
> limitations with the DOE system. Further to this, we would like to use the
> tool to collaborate/provide access for our with our project partners
> (experts in the field) who are both in informal education (Museum) and
> NASA.
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> Any advice/feedback on the above programs as a project online
> collaborative tool, or other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mahalo
> Amber
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> Amber Inwood
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