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Title: Videoconferencing%20Without%20Busting%20Your%20Budget


1
Videoconferencing Without Busting Your Budget
  • Miguel Bordo
  • Deb Kinney

2
Budgets Not What They Used To Be
  • Looking at alternatives
  • Web based solutions
  • Cheap equipment (webcams, mics, headsets, etc.)
  • Ease of use for client (faculty, staff, students)

3
Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing
  • Time/Convenience
  • Environmental Impact

4
Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing
  • Budget
  • Resource Management

5
Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing
  • Educational Opportunities - Distance Learning

6
Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing
  • Document sharing
  • Team building
  • Legal proceedings
  • Special speakers

7
Why use Free options?
  • Budget
  • Ease of use
  • Highly Portable
  • Lack of Technical Support
  • No other options

8
Free VC Options
  • Skype http//www.skype.com/
  • Sightspeed http//www.sightspeed.com/
  • ooVoo http//www.oovoo.com/
  • palbee http//www.palbee.com/index.aspx
  • Wengomeeting http//www.wengo.fr/
  • iChat http//www.apple.com/support/ichat/
  • DimDim http//www.dimdim.com/

9
More Free VC Options and One Low Cost Option
  • Paltalk http//www.paltalk.com
  • Polycom PVX software

10
Live or Memorex?
11
Courtroom of the future
  • Remote testimony
  • Evidence sharing
  • Courtroom 21 project

12
Webcams
  • USB based or Firewire
  • Automatic or manual operation
  • Different resolutions
  • Some come with built-in mics
  • Cost - 20 - 130
  • Brands - Logitech, Labtec, Sony, Acer,
    Panasonic, Phillips

13
Microphones
  • USB based
  • Omni-directional
  • Desktop
  • Options from 10 to 150
  • Brands Logitech, Phillips, GE, SYBA

14
Headsets
  • Better than stand alone mics
  • Uni-directional
  • Noise cancelling
  • Analog and USB connections
  • Cost 40 - 150
  • Brands - Plantronics, Logitech, Altec Lansing and
    Labtec

15
Any Questions? Discussion? Tomatoes?
  • Miguel Bordo bordo_at_law.duke.edu
  • Deb Kinney kinney_at_law.duke.edu
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