The community I’m building is big on education, so I would like to know if there is webinar plugin?
Sort of an event / live video feed / group chat / … well everything normal webinars could have.

[@pjnu Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Could you describe it a bit more? Do you mean you want to have a live stream embedded somewhere on the site? Some sites like Justin.tv or Ustream may offer an embed code (I’m not sure since I don’t stream) that you could drop in a Text/HTML widget on the sidebar.

[@webbasica Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Actually, I’m using the term webinar wrong. What I really want is to be able to hold conferences, meetings, sort of a classroom interaction. Distance education maybe.

[@pjnu Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

You might enjoy 37 Signal’s service called Campfire or Basecamp for team/staff interactions: http://37signals.com/

I heard about https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scholarpress-courseware/ in the blogosphere lately. I wasn’t impressed with how it worked so I took it off my beta site. I hope one of both of these will help.

[@thecorkboard Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

If you’re speaking more about distance education and e-learning, I invite you to look at a few resources on my site:
http://thecorkboard.org/category/instructional-technology/online-learning/

PJ mentions the Scholarpress plugin, which, I agree, is a bit faulty at the moment. But keep track of the Google Summer of Code project that looks to blend Scholarpress with BuddyPress and improve its features as well:
http://thecorkboard.org/gsoc-buddypress-and-sp-courseware/

I think a lot of what you want to accomplish is inherently available within BuddyPress. Meetings could equate to groups. Conferences could be a specific BuddyPress site with some features on or off. I’ve found that looking at BuddyPress – and WordPress for that matter – with a different lens has expanded my perspective on what this software can really do.

~Kyle~

[@jalien Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

i think a really great plugin would be one to integrate BigBlueButton with WordPress, and specifically with Buddypress. Then, as mentioned above, individual users or Buddypress groups could be easily invited to sessions. The api for integration is here:
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/API

and the main site is here:

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[@k9disc Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Jalien…
That would be deluxe! I am very interested in Buddy Press as a school… Scholar Press integration looks promising as well.

Hope to hear more about this topic.

Peace,
Ron

[@r-a-y Keymaster 15 years, 12 months ago]

Thanks for mentioning BigBlueButton! Looks like Adobe Acrobat Connect! Going to try out the demo some more!

[@abomb1977 Member 15 years, 3 months ago]

I know this is an old topic, but I also heard about another plugin for WP called “teachpress.” You could take a look at that one. I’m in the process of working on “yet another blog,” that I intend to become an online learning environment – that’s why I posted.