Strategy: Webcam and Live Messenger for collaboration
6 Keywords: MSN, Windows Live Messenger, Chat, Text, Share Files, Communication
"I use MSN and Skype - its more.. "The essay we were given - when’s it due in, again?”, or “What have you written for this? I am doing a critical review on this person’s work – what kind of thing have you written? because I'm kind of stuck on what I should write at the moment... but it’s [the webcam] quite useful if you want to call someone up and go, "Does this look OK?" and you can hold up your piece of work to the camera and they say ‘Yeah that looks all right!’
When you are using MSN check the settings you have for your webcam under the Tools menu - Options - Personal and if you want to save a conversation to go over later - keep the history.
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"They have introduced it in the 4th year. Everything is working in groups. It used to be a lot more working on your own essays in the old days. But everyone had the same title, so you could collaborate on it that way."
- GemmaTip
MSN Web Messenger allows you to contact your MSN friends when you are not at your own computer. All you need to use is the computer's browser such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox but due to the pop up windows it does not work in the WebbIE text browser.
