Pancul

Latency
Had a fun and valuable intro today. Surprisingly Pat was quite relaxed working within the elluminate space. The only concept that was hard to convey was the notion of latency among and between users during an online elluminate session.
So, throwing caution to the wind, Li Ting hooked up not one but two PC's in the elluminate session, the steam powered training server rose to the occasion.[ We're so looking forward to getting our new 'Internode' service] Georgina was able to allow simultaneous moderator privileges for Adelaide and Alice Springs and our second laptop had normal student/learner permissions. [it's good to see elluminate consistently enhancing their product] So with this set up we were able to demonstrate, in real and latent time, what happens when moderators and learners use the tools in the session room. As it turned out it was an engaging and valuable learning experience for old and new learners alike. You gotta love whoever invented serendipity eh?
Research Topics.
Pat led by example and brought in a selection of archival footage stored on VHS tapes. We worked out how to use the on-screen counter and Pat has started mapping out the segments she wants to include.

The Ara Irititja Demo was also a success and garnered a lot of keen interest. It also helped demonstrate how multimedia can be packaged to become easy to navigate and control whilst at the same time being multiculturally user friendly. Definitely one of my longer sentences there, apologies!
So now we are on the road to farming the data we have and the truth thats out there somewhere Mulder. Here's a screen shot from the Ara Irititja Demo put ou by the South Australian Government I think. I was given the demo by some of the researchers involved in the project when I was working with them and the Anmattjerre mob in Ti Tree about 5 years ago.

Thats all I got for now, be happy! Fred for the NTLS07 team.




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