Hi, I have thought about using recordmydesktop to create little screencasts, but they would still need to be converted or edited a minimum. That is not live. VNC could work, but this is a bit Windows-ish, no? Screenshots are ok, but we would be better off making them in advance, if we want to be able to talk at the same time... Remote X (ssh -X) sessions are useless, because they would not see what we do... Maybe we could ssh a session on their computer and start pd on their X11 session... They could grab it with a web cam and stream us the result... And we could talk to them using something like jack-udp and pd.
At least, I can say that preparing a few patches is quite good for remote workshops. Also, asking them to ask their questions on IRC is the best thing, I find. So, I think that Ben Bogart's way (VNC + voice + IRC) is the way to go. Got to read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC Do you guys think that Pd + jack-udp is faster than Skype ? (skype is proprietary, also...) a 2007/5/14, marius schebella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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> > > {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net http://www.puredata.info/Members/aalex _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list