Because I am lazy and didn’t go to the real welcome session, I’m now in the virtual welcome session. This interaction is better than I expected. I sort of expected two things — Macromedia Breeze or the old plain text messaging (like on IRC).
But the interactive interface is based on Elluminate. It uses a Java program with the capability of text messaging, voice messaging, and whiteboard applications (only available to the moderators, the ones who are presenting).
I didn’t get too much out of the presentation though — busy playing around with all the neat things there. The good thing is, for some time in history, Java did not crash my computer.
awesome.. seems like UBC is so much more advanced than UofT. I don’t even know how to navigate the damn utoronto.ca site. Too many pages and wayyy unorganised. Seach comes in handy tho. But who woulda think… to search a school site? hahaha..
I hear UofT is really awesome. Although I wish UBC was a bit organized in terms of registration though. I tried to register for my courses online, and — “Sorry, your student account is unavailable”. Maybe the errors are caused by the complexity of things too.