Mmhmm is an exciting new interactive video presentation tool designed for educators forced (or actively embracing) teaching online.

The app launched recently, and already has several features that are perfect for online teaching – both live and pre-recorded:

• Collaborative presentations: Two presenters can drive the same presentation in Zoom. Slide content is synchronized between both presenters, perfect for co-teaching and student feedback.
• Mimics newscasts and television: You can add sophisticated background effects, video filters, slides, and movies to your presentations.
• Record regular video or interactive presentations: Interactive presentations allow your audience to jump to particular slides in your presentation and change video settings.
• Transparency effects: Rather than blocking slide content, you can appear as a hologram in front of your slides – so students can see you and your content simultaneously.
• Laser pointers: Annotate slide content with laser pointers.
• Works with Panopto, Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and more: You can use mmhmm to improve camera and sharing settings in videoconference software, or in your Panopto recordings.
• And more…

Date: Tuesday November 17
Time: 12 p/m.
Location: Zoom

You can register here.

Tags: Technology Tuesday, mmhmm, video, videoconference, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Online Learning

Good news: Skype has a new beta, which allows four participants to videochat simultaneously.

Bad news: Does not work on Windows 7, Linux or OS X yet.

Hoping that a portable apps version will be available soon (along with versions for the other operating systems).

Tags: videochat, skype, videoconference