Re: [LAU] LAC 2013, why not more students?

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Marije Baalman <nescivi@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hiho,
>
> the streamteam of the LAC is working long hours each year to make
> everything happen - and the video/audio streams are of quite high
> quality each year, and the questions from IRC do add to the conference.
>
> Any help to improve the online-ness of the LAC in addition to the
> offline-ness is appreciated.
> Suggestions are welcome, especially if backed up by work on making
> these things happen.
>
>
That was actually a main point of me bringing this up, is to stir
conversation.

These days video conferencing are reaching new heights in effectiveness. I
am looking to move one of my audio classes that is more lecture based to a
video conference type setup for about 2/3 of the class. I am part of an
international team (Well actually have been part of several) that use video
conferencing to communicate/critique/etc.

Now that is great, but in all my cases above it is a smaller team of
people, usually no more than 10 or so active participants. That obviously
doesn't work for a conference how I have currently used it, my question is,
how can the broadcast method be pushed more towards something really
suitable for a conference instead. I feel like IRC is only a stepping
stone to it, and I personally feel like the people on this list are likely
the perfect group to innovate something different in this regards as well
considering the variety of backgrounds and common interest in audio and/or
visual communications.

Now all that being said, I don't have many ideas myself yet. A rework of
video conferencing to allow for a broadcast with videochat questions*(see
below for clarification) along with text based questions is a step, but I
wonder if that is all that is needed.

* What I see for video chat, would be a primary presenter, that people
could click a button to 'raise a hand' to ask a question and see them via
video when they ask the question, but not otherwise.

Another question or possibility would be, would it make a difference, for
example, to have satellite campuses for the conference. For instance the
cost from my side of the pond is much larger than someone in the EU
obviously, so what would it look like to do a satellite conference, which I
do annually with other conferences with decent success, and is there enough
interest? And what would that look like, as likewise I can only see
something non-standard working in this type of situation.

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Received on Wed Feb 13 00:15:04 2013