Zoom – Mobile App Review (5 of 5)

Reviewed by: Zach Lonsinger

Details

  • Seller: Zoom Video Communication, Inc.
  • Category: Business
  • Current Version: 3.5.5
  • Current Version Updated: Oct. 1, 2015
  • Release Date: June 19, 2013 (2.0.2)
  • iOS, Android
  • Cost: FREE

Review

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Zoom Cloud Meetings is a video conferencing and web conferencing service. It allows for virtual meetings via video, as well as instant messaging.

So why another video app, isn’t this just like Hangouts? Great question, I’m glad you asked. No—it’s completely different. We use Zoom in the College of Nursing quite a lot. Most of our graduate-level nursing classes are at multiple campuses, with some students at home, across the country, etc. To accommodate this, we connect our classes via Zoom meetings. This allows for students who cannot make it to class to connect to class virtually using the Zoom app on their mobile device or computer. Zoom also allows for room polycom systems to connect, making it simple for different campus locations to connect as well. Zoom also offers recording options, which either record to the local machine or the cloud—so classes can be recorded and archived as well. Many uses here, and this review barely scratched the surface of them!

This is another one of those apps that blurs the line between informal and formal. Using Zoom, this opens up the possibility of a student attending class from a coffee shop three time zones away, or on the train commuting home from work.

Specific 21st Century Skills Utilized (p. 25-28)

  • Learning and Innovation Skills
    • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
    • Creativity and Innovation
    • Communication and Collaboration
    • Visual Literacy
    • Basic Literacy
  • Information, Media and Technology Skills
    • Information Literacy
    • Media Literacy
    • ICT Literacy
  • 21st Century Themes
    • Financial, Economic, Business, and Entrepreneurial Literacy
  • Life and Career Skills
    • Flexibility and Adaptability
    • Initiative and Self-Direction
    • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
    • Productivity and Accountability
    • Leadership and Responsibility

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