Video chat probably isn’t good enough by itself for many topics. For programming, screen-sharing software would be helpful. For mathematics, some kind of online whiteboard would help. Is there anything else we need? Do any of you know of good resources? Free options that don’t require registration are preferable.
Good points, I agree. Screen sharing is possible via Hangouts, Skype and talky.io. I’m not sure what the best online whiteboard software is, but screen sharing + using some sort of notepad type thing should work.
Screen sharing is one-way though. If you both need to draw on the same space, it would be pretty awkward. I’ve heard of Twiddla, Deekit, and GroupBoard, but haven’t used them.
That https://talky.io site looks pretty useful. I’ve used a similar one called https://appear.in which also uses WebRTC. I don’t know if one is better. [Edit: looking this over, talky seems better for our purposes.]
Video chat probably isn’t good enough by itself for many topics. For programming, screen-sharing software would be helpful. For mathematics, some kind of online whiteboard would help. Is there anything else we need? Do any of you know of good resources? Free options that don’t require registration are preferable.
Good points, I agree. Screen sharing is possible via Hangouts, Skype and talky.io. I’m not sure what the best online whiteboard software is, but screen sharing + using some sort of notepad type thing should work.
Screen sharing is one-way though. If you both need to draw on the same space, it would be pretty awkward. I’ve heard of Twiddla, Deekit, and GroupBoard, but haven’t used them.
That https://talky.io site looks pretty useful. I’ve used a similar one called https://appear.in which also uses WebRTC. I don’t know if one is better. [Edit: looking this over, talky seems better for our purposes.]