EDLD 5363 Web Conference Week 1

I like the idea of web conferencing however unless you have a recording it sometimes seems a little invalid. Sometimes the chats are irrelevant to the topic and tend to be more about what technical trouble or difficulties the users are experiencing at the time. I think web conferences offer a valuable tool for distance learning and understand the whole point of holding them. I have enjoyed my classes so far at Lamar pertaining to technology and think the professors go above and beyond to provide an experience for the students to learn and integrate as much technology as possible in the short amount of time we have together. The conferences do provide that personal interaction that would be missing otherwise. One issue I myself have with web conferencing is the fact that I live in the country and my Internet provider is not sufficient but I have no other alternative. My upload and download time and amounts are very poor and I have encountered many issues on my end with submitting and posting assignments on YouTube, TeacherTube and sometimes on Lamar Epic. I greatly appreciate technology and look forward to a better experience  in the future. This first week's assignment was on creating a Personal Digital Story. I looked forward to using new software and the experience as far as the creating process was very interesting and enlightening. However, this is when I experienced the terrible upload and download issues. Aside from that it was a very good way to start out this multimedia course.  The Journey