From the NETC conference, Floyd Davenport and Dan Cotton are presenting through Breeze to the Iowa State University Extension Annual Conference. The setup is on one computer and then they're connecting via another computer.

It's a demo of Breeze and a discussion of e-Extension.

We're connecting from the Stewart Center at Purdue to the Scheman Center at ISU. Floyd is talking about the technology of Breeze Live. We're just beginning to use this technology at Iowa and plan to use it for online collaborations, program delivery and both live and recorded presentations. The biggest issue that we've had with Breeze Live and are still learning to work with is the lag in video and audio. This lag goes up and down so that sometimes the talking isn't completely related to the video. Breeze Live does allow freezing the video, which sometimes works better (plus cutting down on bandwidth).

Floyd is demo-ing the pieces of Breeze including uploading content, videos, Powerpoint presentations, polling, chat, documents, etc.

Dan is going to be talking about e-Extension, a variation on his keynote talk yesterday. Today's talk for ISU's Annual Conference will be geared less toward the tech side that appeals to the NETC audience and more toward Extension in general. And Dan's talking now...

We've switched to slides/audio only for this portion of the session which eliminates such things as--is he looking at the camera, is the voice and video synced, etc. And it makes the slides larger on the remote screens.

I'm not going to repeat the e-Extension talk here. But I will see if there are any questions and report on those when we get to them...

Questions--

(comment) people would have liked to see a video with the slides (we went to slides only during the presentation (video can be distracting...but no video can be boring...)

(question) can I use Breeze with stuff you don't support (yes, but , remember, if it's stuff we don't support, we don't support it)

(question) can our clients download stuff to use it (there's nothing to download--they just need to know the link to get to it)

(question) ok, missed this one, but the answer has to do with how much bandwidth you need

(question) talk about how to set up a conference--how can people who aren't extension use the system. (deb hopes we're not just going to turn people (non-extension people, that is) loose on it (yikes!) Floyd says we will get accounts for Extension staff and then they can deliver it to their clients, provide information on how to access, etc.)

(question) ok, missed this one too. Something about who gets to be a presenter.

And the presentation is over (or nearly).

I like this live-blogging, kind of fun...