Thursday, August 7, 2008

Session 5 - a few technical tips

Week 5 session of the group came off mostly without a hitch! The presentations were very interesting, and it was great to see everyone get involved with the technology. However, from a technical point of view, setting up to host a room turned out to have a few more intricacies than we expected.

For instance, the Online Meeting room that was set up for us did not have "auto-accept clients" ticked, and the host (who was busy preparing to present) had to approve everyone who came into the meeting. Additionally, one of our presentations was very visual: however, it was remarked that it was fairly difficult to see the full detail of a floral presentation, as the video from clients is usually fairly low-quality, to conserve bandwidth. A feature that all of us forgot about was the ability to turn on high-quality video for one specific user, so that all other users could see them in a higher resolution. This is something available under Host Options.

There was another issue when we tried to swap the role of Host, however, we soon decided that it was easier to all move to a different online room and so were able to keep the meeting on track, without further problems. (Sam)

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