WiZiQ

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

If you don’t have money to spend and still want to have an interactive online class with audio, video and a shared whiteboard, take a look at WiZIQ.

Membership is free and there is no software to install.  Once you have an account, you can invite other members to your sessions.  Each session can be archived for future review.

Another nice feature is the “public session”.  This is a session open to anyone interested in joining.  All sessions (public or private) are tagged with key words.  You can search for archived sessions from other users based on these tags. 

Over time, these archives could be a great resource in and of themselves.

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One Response to WiZiQ

  1. John Schinker says:
    October 4, 2007 at 9:12 am

    I played with this a couple weeks ago with a bunch of teachers from all over. It looks like a promising tool. Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow you to do screen-sharing, or even have a shared browser. Interestingly, that was something that we missed a lot. It also appeared to be limited in the number of concurrent sessions it could handle. I seem to remember someone saying that there could only be one public session occurring at a time. I’m sure this was due to the fact that it was pretty new, and it may be better now.

    Overall, it’s a promising tool, and the shared whiteboard with integrated audio makes it a good candidate for the toolbox right next to Yugma.