Learning Curve for TokBox

Well, I've had a lot  of fun learning about tokbox.com.  It is very easy to sign up and mail those video mails.  I invited my parents to tokbox.com and I was able to talk to them while viewing their amazing faces.  It was a blast.  We did have a problem with an echo while we were talking, so you need to wear headphones during the transmission.  My parents and I talked for at least 30 minutes  and we didn't have any trouble during the interaction.  You can create a list of friends that you can dial-up to talk to and you can add as many as 20 people in that conference call. 

I created a video that I wanted to send to my blog and I made an amazing learning mistake.

Instead of sending my pre-made video to my blog, I sent what is called Widget to my blog.  I discovered that people could make a video mail from Widget and send the video mail to whoever they wanted.  This would actually be cool when introducing tokbox to students in the classroom. You could just have them go to the Class Blog and ask them to try out the video mail.  Students wouldn't have register or create their own tokbox account.  This could also be used to have students practice speeches.

     

The other problem I had was sending video mail to my blog.  Barry was very kind and showed me via TeamViewers, how to send my video mail to my blog.  I was trying to embed from the list of items on the left of tokbox screen.  What Barry showed me was that it is done after you press send .  There will be a list of choices on the right of your picture and you press link/embed.

Then you will be given a choice of two lines to copy-copy the last choice and then click to your blog and create a new post.  Click the Edit Html tab and then put your cursor in the blank space and paste.  Then click compose and your video will transfer.  It doesn't necessarily show up until you click View Blog. 

Tokbox.com is fun and easy, even for an old timer like me.