The Law Center offers a powerful service for web conferencing: Cisco WebEx. This service allows community members to collaborate using an Internet-connected computer. Participants can hold audio conversations, chat via text, view live video, share documents and presentations, and much more. WebEx is a key component of our business and academic continuity strategy to support meetings and classes in the event of emergency closures of the Law Center. The IST department also facilitates the use of Skype in cases when a simpler technology, with less functionality and complexity, is preferable. Starting in 2009, some of our faculty and students, snowed in the nation's capital or stranded in Europe due to an Icelandic volcano, listened to class recordings and joined web conferencing lectures.
Click here to read a case study, listen to a podcast, or watch a video about the use of Cisco Webex at Georgetown Law.
For more information on using WebEx or Skype web conferencing, please contact Matthew Bates (batesm@law.georgetown.edu, 202-662-9621).
Another approach to academic continuity is our digital classroom recording system. Community members may request classroom recordings by clicking here: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/ist/avrecording/.
For information on academic continuity on other Georgetown campuses, please visit the main campus page.
Revised November 19, 2010 (SMM)
