Si, I´m a big fan of camstudio 2.0 (which is better than 2.5) but I think I can do better than that. I´m also using flash pro 8 to create content. I will see what option will be the best. I need to start the lessons first and continue for a while to think better about it.

perfjenny,

All three sessions are the same lesson. You can pick the third one only and you will not miss anything. I have put there three sessions so people can pick one or another.

As you can see all three sessions are names "lesson 1" and the content is the same.

As for the lessons in video environment, this is of course possible. The software lets you to record lessons. We could put either these records or I could convert my power point files to a video format and add sound. Let´s see.

I´m now working on the power point file for tomorrow´s lesson.

That material will be mainly for those who joined the lesson but would like to restudy it. I strongly suggest that you join lessons. It is better than watching a video since you will be able speak and answer question as well. Also all the interaction during the lesson helps to remember things.

Hello si,

I have checked again on this page and it confirms that flash is needed. It looks like you are out of luck.

http://help.dimdim.com/activekb/questions/111/do+i+need+to+download+anything+to+use+Dimdim%3F

Kuzu, to prevent confusion I have also given GMT time of the lessons. Right now UK is GMT+1.

I suggest using this website website to find your location.

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx

People who have difficulty with time zones can simply mention their location and I will put the time in their local time as well. Cheers.

Kuzu, you don´t need anything to install. You need to have flash 9.0 or higher installed on your computer but nearly all computers already have this. So it is very likely that you have it as well. If you don´t have it the program will let you know and direct you to this website:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=shockwaveflash

Hi Alameda,
I have just announced the lesson times. It wasn´t available at the time of your first message. So in fact you couldn´t see it earlier.

Hello Everybody. Please check the first message. Lesson times have been announced. You can join any of the three sessions.

Alameda,
I have put a weekend session hoping that it will be more suitable for the folks in the states. I´m also planning to repeat this lesson after a two week gap. Cheers.

It will work very simple. I will give you a short grammar explanation about a topic. Then I will show you some exercises that I will have prepared before, where you either give an answer to a question or you construct the question itself looking at the answer. I like the lessons more when learners speak more than me during a lesson.

Visitors, people who dont have a microphone or people who don´t want to speak won´t speak during a lesson. It will be like a real classroom environment with the difference that I´m teaching for 12 years in normal classes and I didn´t teach a single lesson in virtual environment yet. So it is a new thing for me as well. But don´t worry, it should be fine.

According alexa.com most of the users of this website are from USA. Second is Germany and third is UK. So I will try to arrange evening times for USA, Germany and UK. This way people who have a daytime job or school can join in the evening. There is only one hour difference between Germany and UK.

We could also add one repeating session for the weekend. So in total the same lesson would be presented at least 3 times during the same week and it would repeat continuously after a two week gap.

For instance for the UK, lessons could be 6 or 7pm on weekdays and 4 or 5 pm on weekends.

Hopefully other teachers here will follow this system and there will be more repeating sessions for the same lesson content.

The software I´m using allows uploading a power point slide show. I´m thinking to create slide shows for each lesson and give them to other teachers. This way they could teach the same thing themselves using that slide show.

Queent,

Don´t worry. This lesson is for complete beginners. It is not a high level course. Any complete beginner can join. Just check the first message in this topic to find out the lesson time.

I will arrange repeating sessions for the same lessons in case people from different time zones want to pick a more suitable time. I will also repeat the lessons over time once in a week or two so people who missed the lessons in the past will be able to join another one.

You can imagine this as a cinema movie. It will be shown in the morning and afternoon so you can pick any of them. It will also repeat after a week or two so newcomers can see it as well.

Right now the only thing that I´m interested is enough attendence. As soon as we have enough interest I will announce the lesson times.