Webconferencing

Overview of Cotelco Webconferencing Capabilities

The Cotelco webconferencing server is built on technology licensed from Elluminate. Webconferencing is the centerpiece of a suite of collaboration tools used within Cotelco for its research, teaching, and service/outreach objectives.

Through the use of webconferencing, people from around the world can participate in real-time/synchronous meetings, classes, seminars, and discussions from anywhere in the world where they have access to a computer and a minimum 28.8 kb/s Internet connection. Participants may choose to use use Windows, Mac, Solaris, or Linux platforms.

In a webconference, participants can hear and see each other using voice and video over the Internet, see and mark-up presentation slides and white boards, share multi-media files such as movies, collectively browse websites, go into break-out rooms, raise their hands and engage with the presenter(s); all of which can be recorded and stored for later asynchronous playback by participants.

We are interested in collaborating with research and teaching units at Syracuse University that are interested in exploring the possibilities to enhance their ability to engage in geographically distributed collaboration. We have established mechanisms which will allow us to cover our recurring costs related to webconferencing, and below you will see a sample pricing structure for university collaborators who want to use webconferencing, but who are not working directly on a Cotelco project. For more detailed discussions about pricing and collaboration, please contact the Director, Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn.Cotelco Webconferencing Availability Within Cotelco, we want to promote collaboration on the AU and SU campuses, and to enhance the ability for anyone in the University community to "go global, locally!" However, the high cost of licensing and maintaining our webconferencing server precludes us from being able to allow access for free.

We have decided to charge a modest amount for access to the server, which will help us to recover our costs, maintain the server, and provide services to users. For a simple fee schedule, contact Dr. Cogburn. This is only a draft fee schedule, and is subject to change at any time. We will also plan regular seminars and training courses to help users prepare for participation in webconferences.