Any thought on AnyMeeting?

 AnyMeeting offers free and low-cost web conferencing, and the chance to use video conferencing and webinar services.When looking at the site: https://www.anymeeting.com/, some of the features AnyMeeting offers include- 

• 6- way video conferencing
• Share your screen
• Hold large or small meetings
• Built-in conference calling 
• Play youtube clips 
• Present PowerPoint slides
• Mobile friendly
• Facebook and Twitter integration
• Personal meeting URL

I had never come across AnyMeeting before being on the PGCE programme and I was intrigued to see what it was all about. One lesson my fellow PGCE peers and I got to try it out. It did not exactly work, in fact it did not really work at all. Our faces on the screen become frozen, giving us permanently odd expressions and our voices could not be heard in the webinar. Therefore, my experience of AnyMeeting was not a positive one, although I am willing to try the technology out further, as I believe that used correctly it could be a useful software. Having online services such as this may be the future of teaching in the sense that this could be how we hold meetings with students/colleagues and how we give extra help and tutoring to students outside of class. For now I am not participating in AnyMeeting, but I may very well find myself in one one day. Just because this software did not work once does not mean I should reject or dismiss it. As I have said throughout the blog, using technology is a learning block for me and as we expect students to embrace all aspects of learning, so we as teachers should be motivated to experiment with a variety of ILT. 

References:
https://www.anymeeting.com/ [Accessed 15 January 2015]