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Use chat, repetition, and recordings

Use chat, repetition, and recordings

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Use chat, repetition, and recordings

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- Joining a meeting from a distant location is very easy these days thanks to video conferencing software such as Skype. But when there are several people in one location and you are the one who's joining in from far away, understanding the conversation is very hard, and you could miss important details. How can you improve this experience? To start, you could use the chat function on your video conferencing software to share documents, key concepts, even to take notes. Whenever I'm having a lesson over Skype with one of my students, we use the chat as a virtual whiteboard and notebook. We share materials, I type key concepts, ask them to type answer to questions to check the spelling, etc. And the next lesson, we can go back and look at that information if we need to. If someone in the meeting needs to share data such as email addresses or phone numbers, what better way to keep track of that than the chat. The same is true if you need to share documents or date and times for the next…

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