Video Chat / web chat over LAN

[johnkay21]

Hi all,

 

Does anyone know a good piece of software for web chat/video chat over LAN??????

 

So i can demonstrate this to children within school?

 

thanks

 

John

[mattx]

Skype ?

[tarquel]

Do you mean something that "doesnt" exit the internal network? or a voice / video / messaging system like matt suggests?

 

Nath.

[johnkay21]

Yes somethin that doesnt exit the network!

[plexer]

there's one with windows I believe?

 

Ben

[Guest]

Openfire with Spark client?

 

http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp

[plexer]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/

 

Netmeeting.

 

Ben

[SimpleSi]

Netmeeting

It can exit your network but not very well and nobodies really using it so it wouldn't matter anyway.

 

regards

Simon

[laserblazer]

I've been asked if we could provide a messaging facility between classrooms. The teachers have this idea that it would be nice for the kids to chat between classes. I can see some advantages in being able to send messages but a potential problem with them popping up on the W/B during a lesson. "Miss Smith, your pregnancy test results have arrived!"

 

Is anyone else doing this?

[mattx]

Is anyone else doing this?

 

I setup Spark on the clients with Wildfire on a server - [ which is now Openfire ] - when I can be bothered to move up to Openfire I will.

 

Are there are any major differences does anyone know that I should be concerned about ?

 

I also wrote a simple script which will turn off Spark from clients just in case some of the pupils are using that instead of getting on with their work !!

Checkout: http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8395&highlight=spark+switch

[apeo]

Is spark and openfire opensource?