TokBox is a flash and browser based video chat tool that can be embedded in your website for free. To get started, the teacher needs to register, although users you want to video chat with don’t have to be registered. No other downloading is necessary. As more notebooks come with inbuilt webcams these flash based video chat engines will be come more commonly used. I highly recommend these amazing notebooks that have had in-built webcams for a couple of years 
Wouldn’t this be great for students in different schools talking to each other about an open-ended learning task posted in the blog? Or for inviting an ‘expert’ to talk about the textual content of a post. I like how this tool promises to facilitate live communication but in the context of the content of a blog post. If you see me online, want to discuss this tool’s possibilities - feel free to initiate a video chat.
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there could be many wonderful applications for these types of tools in the classroom. Its a matter of schools embracing them.
Its easier for them to not have it at all, then having to worry about implementing policy and procedures so students can use it.
From my experience as a student there needs to be more education given to schools. The VCE public school i attend need to remove 3 quarters of the internet filtering before they take this step…
Josh
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