Explore: Select one of the synchronous vendor applications listed in this lesson. Try-out the application. Think about how you would use this application to host a live lesson with students.
Answer: What synchronous vendor application/tool did you select? Using the application, what did you experience using the synchronous learning tool? Was the task easy? Challenging? Did the process present problems? Document the responses and general reflections on synchronous learning and the recorded session in your blog.
I have used Google Hangouts in the past for personal use. I can imagine it being easy and helpful to use with students, since it is free as part of a gmail account. If a student does not have a gmail account it is simple to sign up for one and have access to this as well as many other features. The only challenges one would experience is you must add people to you contact before you can access them in google hangouts.
This would be a valuable tool for synchronous learning as is would give the student and instructor access to each other as they would both be logged on at the same time and be able to have good conversation.
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