Start of Project

At first we had difficulty in getting the Live Classroom to work for us. There were firewalls, proxies and authentication issues. The steps prior to that were also tricky as we had to get IT permissions to use the Wizard for downloading all the bits involved in the live classroom. eg. Quicktime, Java and Popups.

All of this sounds so jargonistic now when I read back over that.

Here in Blogger it was really simple to create and post to the blog. So I'll be recording my thoughts on the project in here for others to read.

Live Classroom has such potential for distributed learning in regional environments, especially under the current high cost of petrol circumstances. Some learners are finding it difficult to justify the journey to TAFE for all of their learning especially when their budget is limited. Learners who can spend some of the learning time online, either at home or in a supported learning centre close to home, will benefit from the Live Classroom.