Workshop Issues:

The nice part of being s student of Web 2.0 technologies is that I can create videos, blogs and podcasts with relative ease, which helps learners of all different types. However, one issue which we haven't discussed much is the issue of accessibility, meaning do our learners have the computer and internet bandwidth to access the new tools we are creating?

Granted, I have some experience in creating tools like the iTunes Movie Rental video I did for this week's workshop. Yet, the biggest issue I struggled with when creating that movie was the with size parameters. My goal was to make the movie somewhat easy to access yet with enough quality that the images, animation and audio was clear. The dilemma I was facing was make it in high quality that is slow to download, or fast but somewhat fuzzy quality?

We have all these great tools available (I created the movie in Snapz Pro), but we always need to be cognizant that computer/network bandwidth will be an issue no matter what type of learner you are trying to reach. This issue isn't going away. Sure bandwidth will increase, but the tools we use will increase the size needed as well.