Hey, this could turn out to be pretty neat. Our NITLE consortial use of MIV is now becoming the newer, spiffier Elluminate. I have to learn something new, but I don’t mind if it means we get a better product for small group/individual video conferencing.

We are members of NITLE now, which means we get access to all sorts of goodies and resources that we small liberal arts types can share. Right now, the goodie I’m exploring is http://meet.nitle.org, which is a place we can go to get free video conferencing capabilities. We will have a Linfield room of our own soon (yes, Virginia!). That will give us the power to use video cams, audio, white boards, PowerPoints, or whatever else we want to share at a distance. Some of the EMS folks and I tested it the other day with a nice gentleman from the Grinnel English department, and were fairly impressed with it. It’s easy and reasonably good. Next up, classroom videoconferencing testing.