well today was the day i got behind in everything and rather than participating, i just kinda oversaw what happened in the office today. i give credit to jill for going to and fro multiple times to get skype set up on the imac and various other things so that we could experiment with this nifty tool. thx, john, for your help and understanding the technology by being a "user" already.
so ~ in playing with skype ~ it seemed to work okay. we had microphone problems that need some discussion on how to improve. only 1 computer had a camera and others didn't which may have caused problems but all could at least text chat.
our next step is investigating ichat instead or as a first step. ichat is an apple application that uses AIM as its base, but incorporates video (thru your computer camera) and audio, too. jill's already set up AIM accounts and we'll play further to see how this works.
hoping to hear if you can see any potential applications for use -
>afterschool programs? run one live, capture it and run it remotely at another location
>storytimes? same as above
>book clubs?
hmmmmm, what possibility!
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