I Cloned Myself!

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Janine Lim

Since we received the Polycom RSS (on loan from Polycom for Polycom special events), I’ve had some ideas for how we could use it. One was to record the PD sessions I do for teachers. That way when I can’t do a VC for others, they can at least access an archive.

So today I tried it out with a projects workshop for Utica Community Schools. It’s about 40 min. long, with 20 min. of presentation and 20 min. of an interesting Q&A discussion. It’s an informal discussion, so not perfectly polished. But hopefully you it will be useful to you if you were hoping to have me talk for your workshop and couldn’t because I’m too busy with my own districts. Just click this link to access the archive.

I’ve also added a Streaming category to my blog so that you can find all the things that we have archived for streaming. Enjoy!

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35 Polycoms Up & Running

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Janine Lim

Yesterday we hit a milestone for our RUS grant. All 35 units are now up and running and tested in all the buildings. The last two buildings had serious networking issues to be resolved. We do have a few buildings that are locked down to 128K due to bandwidth issues within the district network, but most of them are connecting at 384K.

It’s interesting to me that when you’ve struggled with a connection and the building coordinator has seen a black screen or horribly choppy video many times, when those problems are finally resolved, they are thrilled with the connection they see even though it’s 128K. But for those who are spoiled with more bandwidth and no problems at the beginning, they see the 128K quality and scorn it. It’s all a matter of perspective, right?!

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