LONG DISTANCE LEARNING
BECOMES A REALITY WITH TEAMVIEWER
For many years,
friends and acquaintances from different parts of
the globe have asked me if I could teach them how to
build their own website, or make their own graphic,
or videos, and other software applications over the
Internet. Of course, I had to decline as there
wasn’t any way to enable this kind of long distance
learning because the software programmes needed to
be seen to be understood. Just describing what to do
and how to do it – over the phone – was not a viable
reality for beginners or anyone who needed to be
“shown” what to do because that is how they
processed their learning.
Well – that changed
recently thanks to a new bit of software that is
free and easy to install called TeamViewer. Now, if
a client in Canada, USA, England or just down the
road wants to learn website design and development
with a software programme such as FrontPage or
Expressions Web, then I can help them with the aid
of TeamViewer.
TeamViewer lets
me open a connection to my students’ computer – and
together the two of us can role play the step by
step methodology of the website design software. Or
we can go through the steps of editing a video on
Movie Maker and then uploading it to YouTube – or
edit photos in PhotoShop and then upload them to
KodakGallery and sharing them with family and
friends… you get the idea!
These are just some
examples, but it is unlimited as how this
revolutionizes the way I can help people to help
themselves on their PC’s.
TeamViewer has
another mode that can also aid me with helping my
students move very large files that would bog down
or bounce from an email service. For example, if a
student has designed a flyer and the graphics are
very large because it has to go to the printers,
they can let me know where it is on their hard
drive, and I can transfer it over to my hard drive
and look at it – make corrections and then slide it
back over to their computer again!
Basically, TeamViewer
is a remote desktop tool that is easy to use by
connecting two computers over a server. All a user
has to do is open the TeamViewer programme and it
opens a gateway or “session”. That session displays
a session ID and session password. Once that is
established, the user (who in this case is my
student) emails me those details. I open my
TeamViewer programme and enter the session ID and
password and choose between – viewing the desktop of
the student in order to teach the software
application – or choose the file transfer mode. And
that is it – we are working together without leaving
the office or cozy home!
Contact me if you
would like to learn more about long distance
e-learning and how TeamViewer could help you!
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