Simon appreciate the feedback, In the spirit of open collaboration, truly a team effort:
- Students from the Otago Polytechnic School of Design <http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/schools-departments/design.html> filmed the meeting using a two camera shoot in the Council room. The room is not ideal for a professional shoot given seating arrangements for 22 participants in a boardroom configuration with challenging back light and audio issues. - Robin Day, Deputy Chief Executive of Otago Polytechnic (and amateur musician) brought his personal audio and few professional microphones. We did our best with a venue not designed for professional acoustics. - Jim Tittsler assisted with technical backup using a rather flaky and unreliable UStream client including a few smart hacks to relay the live microblog feed from three sources: Ustream chat, Twitter and identi.ca. This feed was projected live for the Dunedin participants. Jim also did a sterling job monitoring the live chat stream and feeding questions back into the meeting. - Peter Brook from the Education Development Center at Otago Polytechnic volunteered to help with the camera switches and subtitles of the live video feed. - BCcampus in Canada provided technical support for the Etherpad documents used by remote participants during the breakout sessions. - Thanks must also go to the folk who spent time designing a meeting agenda which facilitated the achievement of our meeting objectives in a way which could incorporate local and virtual engagement during the breakout sessions. - Funding support from UNESCO to enable a live webstream, albeit a very tight budget. Designing an international open planning meeting is not a trivial exercise. With each iteration the OER Foundation gets better at doing this. As you will appreciate in a live scenario using "amateur" technologies, less than ideal venues and all that usually goes wrong with a live broadcast -- our asset is a committed OER community that will succeed in providing free learning opportunities for all students worldwide. We are charting the history of the future for more sustainable and affordable education for all. With the webstream, recordings and collaborative documents on the wiki and Etherpad all interested persons will be able to access the meeting activities asynchronously. Wayne On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:31 PM, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote: > I've only one thing to say to you and the team. > > *That was terrific! > *I doubt if people understand the complexities of trying to do a "live > cross", especially when yu have so many people in the one room. > Sound was good (except when splitting the video signal, as we discovered. > The audio halved in volume) > Good video. Some nice cuts and only missed the presentation screen a few > times. But on the whole it was a pleasure to watch the stream. ( I had to > catch it after it had been recorded as I'm at the end of the internet on an > island in malaysia and it was stuttering live. But I doubt if many others > would have had that problem. It'll probably take a few more times before > the interactive stuff really comes into it's own. But just so nice to see. > So who should we be saying thanks to? Just Jim? Seemed like there were a > few others, including our friends at bccampus. > I don't know about a perfect storm. That'll take a bit more coordination > between a few remote networks. But the wind's up now and it'll be > impossible to put it back in the bottle. Hope you've got a life jacket:) > * * > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
