CALL Revolution

While I did miss the live sessions available this week for BAW 08- one of the great thing about technology is that lectures/events/whatever can be recorded and played back at a later time. So thanks to technology I was able to go back and listened to the webcast (part 1) which deals with a cool site community called WorldBridges. (Click here to listen to the same thing I did...) They had quite the setup going on allowing a some participants to be in the live conversation through a SkypeCast, along with many others using simple text based chat. Quite interesting.
Well basically WorldBridges is a online place where communities and communities within communities are able to use "live, interactive webcasting and other new media technologies to help people connect, learn, & collaborate." One of these communities mentioned in the webcast is called "EdtechTalk," which as its name might suggest is "a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology." They have various live shows webcasted each week which are streamed and participants tune in using their favorite program...if they want to participate actively there is also a chat session going on at the same time.
Honestly I am just so amazed at the amount of high quality resources out there which I had no idea about. One last thing before I close for today- Webcasting can be a tricky thing-and I haven't really talked much about what it's good for-but I'll let you look into that-but for those of you who are interested in doing this there is a great resource available called the Webcast Academy. Completion of this course and you should be on your way!