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Videoconferencing Without Busting Your Budget

Explore cost-effective videoconferencing options that don't compromise on quality. With budgets shifting, it's crucial to consider web-based solutions and affordable hardware like webcams, microphones, and headsets. This guide highlights the benefits of video/audio conferencing for convenience, environmental impact, and resource management, alongside various free and low-cost platforms such as Skype, ooVoo, and Paltalk. Discover how these tools can enhance educational opportunities, team building, and legal proceedings without breaking the bank.

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Videoconferencing Without Busting Your Budget

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  1. Videoconferencing Without Busting Your Budget Miguel Bordo Deb Kinney

  2. Budgets Not What They Used To Be • Looking at alternatives • Web based solutions • Cheap equipment (webcams, mics, headsets, etc.) • Ease of use for client (faculty, staff, students)

  3. Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing • Time/Convenience • Environmental Impact

  4. Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing • Budget • Resource Management

  5. Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing • Educational Opportunities - Distance Learning

  6. Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing • Document sharing • Team building • Legal proceedings • Special speakers

  7. Why use Free options? • Budget • Ease of use • Highly Portable • Lack of Technical Support • No other options

  8. Free VC Options • Skype http://www.skype.com/ • Sightspeed http://www.sightspeed.com/ • ooVoo http://www.oovoo.com/ • palbee http://www.palbee.com/index.aspx • Wengomeeting http://www.wengo.fr/ • iChathttp://www.apple.com/support/ichat/ • DimDimhttp://www.dimdim.com/

  9. More Free VC Options and One Low Cost Option • Paltalk – http://www.paltalk.com • Polycom PVX software

  10. Live or Memorex?

  11. Courtroom of the future • Remote testimony • Evidence sharing • Courtroom 21 project

  12. Webcams • USB based or Firewire • Automatic or manual operation • Different resolutions • Some come with built-in mics • Cost - $20 - $130 • Brands - Logitech, Labtec, Sony, Acer, Panasonic, Phillips

  13. Microphones • USB based • Omni-directional • Desktop • Options from $10 to $150 • Brands – Logitech, Phillips, GE, SYBA

  14. Headsets • Better than stand alone mics • Uni-directional • Noise cancelling • Analog and USB connections • Cost $40 - $150 • Brands - Plantronics, Logitech, Altec Lansing and Labtec

  15. Any Questions? Discussion? Tomatoes? • Miguel Bordo – bordo@law.duke.edu • Deb Kinney – kinney@law.duke.edu

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