Snow Daze

The past two weeks have made me think more and more about my online teaching options. It would seem that in this day and age we wouldn't need to be dependent on in-person class meetings. So with this in mind I decided to hold my Motion Graphics class online last Thursday.

I sent a Sakai message to the group requesting that they log into my WebEx conference meeting, conveniently scheduled for their normal class time.

Of 14 students, only half attended. Those that did found themselves facing the harsh reality of bandwidth: apparently the voice over IP was so large it slowed the screen refresh down to an agonizingly slow creep. This made the review of motion graphics near impossible.

It wasn't until after the students logged off that I thought to try and use the land line phone teleconference option. When I did this, the screen refresh improved considerably.

Now all I need is another storm to test again...