Weminars para Bioinformatica

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Topic of the day:

Webminar... are they usefull or not?

To start with a definition, a webminar is a specific type of web conference. It is typically one-way, from the speaker to the audience with limited audience interaction, such as in a webcast. A webinar can be very collaborative and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. In some cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speaker phone. There are web conferencing technologies on the market that have incorporated the use of VoIP audio technology, to allow for a truly web-based communication.

If you have questions about webinar (webminar) and was afraid to ask, please link on LearnTel
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For free webminar tools and teleconference tools:

1. http://www.freeconferenceservice.com/
2. http://smallbusiness.edublogs.org/whats-a-webinar/
3. http://www.webex.com.au/

From wikipedia we see...

A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology. As a broadcast may either be live or recorded, similarly, a webcast may either be distributed live or recorded. Essentially, webcasting is “broadcasting” over the Internet.

The generally accepted use of the term webcast is the "transmission of linear audio or video content over the Internet".

A webcast uses streaming media technology to take a single content source and distribute it to many simultaneous listeners/viewers.

The largest "webcasters" include existing radio and TV stations who "simulcast" their output, as well as a multitude of Internet only "stations". The term webcasting is usually reserved for referring to non-interactive linear streams or events.

Rights and licensing bodies offer specific "webcasting licenses" to those wishing to carry out Internet broadcasting using copyright material.

Webcasting is also used extensively in the commercial sector for investor relations presentations (such as Annual General Meetings), in E-learning (to transmit seminars), and for related communications activities. However, webcasting does not bear much, if any, relationship to the idea of web conferencing which is designed for many-to-many interaction.

Exemples:

Links from entreprises webinars (they use to sale their product)

• http://biocyc.org/webinar.shtml
• http://www.illumina.com/webinars/
  
• http://www.cambridgesoft.com/webinars/info/Default.aspx?webinarID=178
• http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/webinars/wbnr30482.html?id=30482&p1=38967&p2=38968
• http://www.bio-rad.com/LifeScience/jobs/2007/07-0870/elearning_pre.html
  

From universities:

• http://scpd.stanford.edu/webinar/archive.htm
• http://www.amia.org/e-learning/webinars/stanford2007-09.asp

Miscelaneous on biology

• http://scienceblogs.com/digitalbio/2008/04/the_wonders_of_webinars.php
• The DNA Network