Hi, I have some expierience now with video conferencing for classes, with both teachers and students online. I would like to share my experiences, but sinsce we were using mac's ichat and did not vnc a screencapture I am not sure if that is of interest for you. we never had more that 4 parties involved, since the core class still was gathering at one place. students were using a group chat, but the "teacher" was not actively chatting only sometimes posting a link. anyway the sound and video quality was quite good...
files (patches) should be prepared online, downloadable and run locally. I think it is very hard to manage the backflow information, like when people are patching locally and run into problems. you could use screenshots for that or a webcam on a cable, but both is only a hack. I don't know if it is possible to integrate a vnc kind of screen video into a skype or ichat session, anyway that would be a way to go... how many people do you want to be in such a remote teaching session? marius. darsha hewitt wrote: > Hi guys, > > Anyone here ever teach pd or other FOSS programmes remotely? > Aalex and I are working on a pilot project with two artist-run centres > in Canada to see what works best for teaching pd at a distance. > > We have had one in person session with the students (who are mainly > visual artists) and we are now under way with the remote part of it > all. We have set up an irc channel (#pd-prairies), a mailing list > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > )and we are having them contribute to a wiki (all of which they seem > relatively to be comfortable with). > > Anyone here ever use any FOSS software to facilitate teaching/ learning > at a distance? We turned to skype for the first remote session but > obviously ran into issues with the we visual side of things (we ended up > sounding like robots when the web cam was in use so in the end we only > used voice...collective blind patching is an interesting experience ;-) > > We will be writing a report at the end of the project for those of you > who are interested. > > Kindly, > > Darsha > > > -- > {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} > www.artengine.ca/darsha <http://www.artengine.ca/darsha> > {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
