Desktop Videoconferencing: Novelty or Legitimate Teaching Tool?

This article focused on videoconferencing and whether it was really a good learning tool or just a passing trend. Videoconferencing is the wave of the future because it allows you or your classroom to communicate with people and issues around the world while both seeing and hearing them. However, underprivileged schools that do not have the funding or technology may not be able to participate on the same level as privileged schools. In my opinion, at this time videoconferencing is not a reality especially in our district. It requires too much from the entire school in order to use it on a regular basis. However, I do think that it if made more accessible it would have the potential to be an extremely valuable teaching tool.