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NetMeeting
 Overview
NetMeeting has several
useful desktop video conferencing features:
- Audio: This feature
allows you to talk to another person via the internet
phone.
- Video: If you have a
video camera connected to your computer, you can see
another person live while you are talking to him/her.
- Chat - This feature allows
you to type messages back and forth to other
participants in real-time.
- File Transfer - This allows
you to send a file to participants.
- Whiteboard - Participants
can write and draw on the Whiteboard at the same time.
- Shared Applications -
Sharing an application on your PC allows all
participants to view the application while you are
using it. For instance, you could show a
PowerPoint presentation to the other participants and
they would see it, even if they did not have
PowerPoint software on their computers.
- Data Collaboration -
Similar to sharing an application, except participants
can work with your application, however only one at a
time.
For information on how to use these features, click here.
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Downloading and Connecting
Click here for information on
downloading.
Click here for more information
on connecting.
Audio and Video
If you have a sound card, speakers, and a microphone, you can talk to another
computer site. If you have a camera attached to your computer, you can transmit your
picture to another person. Both audio and video are point-to-point communication.
Click here for more information.
Chat
The NetMeeting Chat has the following features:
-- a "whisper mode" in
which you can talk privately with one person in the conversation,
-- a "save" feature so
that you can save the conversation and review it later,
-- a "print" feature so
that you can print out the conversation,
-- "copy" and
"paste" features so that you can copy and paste the conversation into other text
files or copy and paste other text files into the conversation.
Click here for more information.
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Whiteboard
The NetMeeting whiteboard has several features. These features are shared with all
the participants in a meeting. You can draw on the whiteboard and/or you can copy
and paste text onto the whiteboard and/or you can bring a picture or a section of a
picture from any windows application into the whiteboard.
Once text is on the
whiteboard, you can modify it, circle it, or highlight it.
You also can highlight or circle areas on pictures, draw on
them, and add text to them. There is a hand that you
can move around to point to pictures or text on the
whiteboard. There is also a zoom control. For
drawing, you have tools for making lines, ellipses, and
rectangles in various colors.
You and the other participants can highlight or draw on the
whiteboard at the same time. If you want to have the
other participants see the contents of the whiteboard but not
allow them to modify them, there is a lock function which allows
you to prevent the others from highlighting or drawing on the
whiteboard. Only you can modify it. In this
way, the whiteboard serves the function of an overhead.
You can have several pages on the whiteboard. Also, you
can save the contents of the whiteboard. Thus, you can
prepare the whiteboard contents before the meeting, or you can
save what you work on collaboratively on the whiteboard with
other participants for use at a later time.
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Click here
for
more information on the whiteboard:
Sharing Files
With NetMeeting, you can share files with other meeting participants. This means
that the other participants can see a file that is open on your computer even if they do
not have the software used for that file on their machines.
For example, you could show a PowerPoint or Presentations presentation to the other
participants. If working one-to-one, you could discuss this presentation with the
other person using the audio function, if both you and the other person have a sound card,
speakers, and microphone. If not, you could telephone the other person or place a
conference call, if more than one person were at the meeting. You could show them a
report that you are working on and get their advice. Students also could show you
projects that they are working on and/or you could show them how to use a specific piece
of software that they have a question about.
Click here for more information about sharing
files.
Collaborating
If you would like to allow others to collaborate with you in writing a report or in
drawing a picture, you can do so with NetMeeting. Let's take the example of writing
a report. Suppose you are writing a report in WordPerfect and you would like another
person who lives in another city to help you rewrite a part of it. Both of you can
open NetMeeting. Then, you first share the report with the other person by opening
up the file the report is in and then clicking on SHARE. At this point, the other
person can only see the file. By clicking on COLLABORATE, you will allow the other
person to make changes on the report. This other person can do so even if he/she
does not have WordPerfect on his/her computer.
Click here for more information.
Transferring
Files If you want to send a file to another person, you can do so with NetMeeting.
Click here for more information.
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