WiZiQ... WiZiq... Wiziq... wiziq... SKYPE!

Today, my group met again to discuss and create our second group project. I was designated to be the person to create our class session. I was able to find the tab to change the time zone to the one that we live in and easily created the page. When 9 o'clock rolled around, all three of us were ready to begin our meeting. Once again, we ran into a problem using WiZiQ. Whenever someone would talk, we could hear it play on the other member's computers and then play back to our own computer. It was echo after echo and really confusing. We didn't see the point in muting everyone or talking by typing into the conversation box, so we decided to go back to using Skype. Skype was so much better for our purpose. Since we were all working on a Google Presentation, we wouldn't have been able to stay on the WiZiQ page to see each other and read the messages anyway. With Skype, everyone could hear each other clearly, we could talk without any problems, and were still able to work together to create our presentation. We decided to explain the sites that we had chosen first and then to add our information to each slide. This really worked out great and the two hours flew by. I really enjoy working with my group on Skype and I look forward to our next meeting. I am curious to see how an entire class session on WiZiQ will pan out...