Yugma

In my role as a teacher of an "Instructional Technology in Teaching" course, I spend a lot of time looking for new tools that could be useful for teaching. Sometimes though, I find them without with out trying. One of these tools is Yugma, an add in for Skype. I found out about this lovely tool from Stacy Baker when she guest presented in my class. By using Yugma, she was able to share her desktop with us through Skype. We were able to see her and the applications, websites, etc. that she wanted us to see. My students were much more engaged in this guest presentation than in previous guest presenters that we've had via web-conference. There are way too many variables to attribute my students' attentiveness to Yugma, but it had to have helped.