>>> On 07 January 2009 at 14:10, Dave Foord <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> DimDim was the first thing that I thought of when reading your request,
> however I have found in the past when trying this, the institutional
> firewalls and proxys seem to slow things down (by at least 4 seconds) which
> makes it very hard to use for any sort of 2 way communication. However there
> have been a couple of updates to DimDim since I last tried, so this issue
> may be less so.
>
> When I was experimenting with this at an institution we briefly tested it by
> bypassing the firewall and proxy and there wasn't a significant delay, as
> soon as we went back to going through the normal proxy the delay returned.
>
Could you use FlashMeeting? That might require a link to a Flashmeeting, rather than a direct embed; but it's certainly something we've never had problems with Firewalls etc., & it only requires Flash 6 (I think - certainly a fairly old one) so few, if any students have to update their flash.
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Emma Duke-Williams
http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
School of Computing / Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator
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Portsmouth
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Tel:- 023 9284 6441
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