Ah, delight!
The technology worked!
For our Can You Hear Us? project, we were lucky enough to get Michael Coghlan on our wavelength as guest speaker. He was in Adelaide, and we were in Melbourne. It was all done with the smoke and mirrors of skype.
i love that!
Michael told us about many wonderful tools for getting audio online, from voiceboards to podcasts and live conferencing. His slideshow is online on the project wiki .. and if we can get the recording to work, i’ll post that too.
Actually this was really satisfying; to have a conversation with people in five different locations seemed thoroughly worthwhile. Earlier in the week, michael and i had connected up in skype, to find out whether there was a whiteboard that would suit the skype environment.
We trialled a few, but ended up deciding to give everyone access to his presentation via slideshare, and to just share web links via the text chat. It worked fine; not as excellent as Elluminate, but very workable. In the end, we thought it best to keep things as simple as possible. Good strategy.
Thanks so much mr coghlan!
Thanks very much to Bob Fornal