Adobe Connect Beautiful Insanity
I've been administering Adobe Connect ( Formerly Macromedia Breeze ) on our campus for 3+ years. The interface is set up so that users can move, resize and shape it to their desire. It gives you the flexibility to control how your presentation is displayed. In most cases our users have taken a very basic approach having a "pod" for the webcam and a "pod" for their PowerPoint. There is also a "presenter Only" area I think of it as a staging area and it is rarely optimized. But it has great potential, users can use the "Presenter Only" area to prepare pods for the presentation or to have notes and cross presenter chat. Yesterday I was asked by a group of graduate students to join one of their meetings to help with some audio issues they were experiencing. I jumped in and was blown away. They took the complete opposite approach and utilized connect to it's fullest. I love seeing things like this. It displays the creativity and flexibility such an application can give a group of people.
