This reminds me of a student app that I've seen where
I work. It is called Palace... basically a chat room
with avitars, emoticons, whiteboard for drawing. Is
there anything like this for Linux. This kind of
approach could be a solution to bandwidth problems.
Here's an example ... I currently work a school in
north florida. For the campus doctor's office with
have 4 dedicated ISDN lines coming in attached to
cameras and digitizers and whatever else it takes to
do teleconferencing. It's an impressive setup, but it
did take all of the bandwidth to make a decent
connection. Now multiply that by 20 or 30 and you'll
have a classroom. uuuugggghhh. But if we stick to an
abstracted form of communication .. ie that neat
little program used in the movie "The Net" or Palace
.. then we don't have that kind of problem. Another
added bonus .. the instructor can do this from home on
old hardware :)
--- John <john@jmp-systems.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:00:35 -0500, Levi Bard wrote:
>
> -> Of course, something like this could also be done
> using a web
> page and an irc room.
>
> I wonder if streaming audio isn't the single most
> important
> element in having an effective system. Keyboarding
> from
> students is ok, to input questions, but if the
> instructor has to
> keyboard to answer questions....isn't that a big
> drawback?
>
> For an open-source/Linux approach, take a look at:
>
> http://vorbis.com/
>
> http://icecast.org/
>
> http://darkice.sourceforge.net/
>
> I just thought that one could:
>
> a) deal with the geographic problem that has been
> raised
>
> b) turn it into a fun geek-project, and put
> together a
> complete, integrated training procedure; ie. work
> out all the
> bugs and learn the tricks, and then reuse it over
> and over.
>
> c) maybe make the past courses available either on
> the internet,
> or on CD (one CD will hold a few hours of compressed
> audio, and
> maybe we could develop some system where you could
> have the
> whiteboard and keyboarding (questions from students)
> preserved
> and shown on screen, in sync with the audio) I
> dunno....maybe
> SLUG could break new ground? Or has this been done?
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
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