| 1.
|
Keep up
the good work! |
| 2.
|
I got
"lost" trying to get to Renata and Karen's presentation on
teacher logs - I did not realize it was in Karen's office.
Also, as a TI helpdesk member, I found I was mostly standing
by, and not really needed. Was this because of the excellent
directions available, or the cyber-savviness of our audience?
|
| 3.
|
remarkable use of technology |
| 4.
|
I think
99% of the limitations and bad experiences were simply due to
sudden losses of bandwidth (and inevitable windows conflicts
which are perhaps secondary), although this is impossible to
verify. |
| 5.
|
Sorry
that I am not able to provide valid response because I didn't
actually participate much. |
| 6.
|
Did
have difficulty because of the presence of firewall in campus.
|
| 7.
|
as a
first time user of Elluminate/Learning Times, I thought it was
great, but wondered why Elluminate had to load itself
separately each time I used it. I'm sure the technology is new
to the vast majority of users although some people seemed to
be far more fluent than I was. I thought it was great to be in
the same space as everyone...fantastic! My only other
complaint about overall conference preparation was that as I
tried to find the conference through older, webheads.info and
other conference links, etc., I never could. I had links to
other webheads stuff but those never led me to the updated
schedule. Finally I memorized the schedule url, but I think we
lost a few people who would have just tried to come in through
those traditional paths. |
| 8.
|
None.
Everyone was very helpful when I had questions |
| 9.
|
We
participated in a few conferences as a group in our school and
the feedback from the students was all extremely
positive..they even said this was more helpful than the f-2-f
ones.. thanks very much for your time and effort put in this
organization |
| 10.
|
It is
not really the conference itself. I have a dial-up connection
at home and had problems with Elluminate both at work and at
home (could never set it up). I think there should be a link
with extremely simple steps for the really novice with clear
information on what is required before the event so that
everythinh is ready for that moment. You did have a document
but could not follow it well. Do not take this as a complaint,
just a suggestion. You all do a magnificent job. |
| 11.
|
I
didn't experience any problem! |
| 12.
|
I was
blown away by how easy it was to connect to each presentation.
I loved the relaxed atmosphere and the ability to try things
out, like the whiteboard. It seemed if I was lost, there was
somebody there to direct me. This was especially true when I
went to a Tapped in presentation. It was my first time to
tapped in and someone showed me where to go. I'm not a
chatter, so a lot of that, trying to get to the right room was
new to me. |
| 13.
|
Everything went great. I was surprised at how
well it all worked together. Very united |
| 14.
|
the
technology was available but full of snags |
| 15.
|
Had a
lot of problems getting out of Alado/talking conferences, but
I'm in communication with them. |
| 16.
|
I
didn't have any problems connecting to any of the
presentations. It was much easier than I expected.
|
| 17.
|
I very
much liked the presentations in elluminate. I noticed many
both presenters and participants had trouble about sound. Many
seem to be using this kind of equipment for the first time.
|
| 18.
|
Yes, I
had some problems with Learning Times. I downloaded the
program to enter the meeting room the first time and it took
me like 20 minutes but then every time I was going to another
conference in the same venue it was like 5 minutes to open and
install all components. I find and Alado and Tapped Inn easier
and friendlier to use. |
| 19.
|
I am
not an expert user and I found the setup very confusing. I
would click on a link and then find myself on a frontpage and
not be able to find within a new board where I was supposed to
be. I attempted to join several conferences without success.I
realise this was a conference probably intended for "old
hands" so accepted this as part of the learning curve. The
instructions Vance added later were helpful but an area for
new people with a simple link would be very useful. It was
difficult to move from one board back to a previous board. I
don't know if there is some way to improve this. |
| 20.
|
worldbridge instructions were not that clear
|
| 21.
|
none
|
| 22.
|
great!
|
| 23.
|
I had
problems using Breeze, and many other participants did too.
Poor sound quality. |
| 24.
|
Too
many "venues"! I would have preferred everything to be much
more tightly integrated, i.e. one login, one room, one chat
window. |
| 25.
|
It's my
first online conference and I was worried because I'm not an
expert in computer hardware and my PC is rather old. However,
now I'm in euphoria because I did it. Thanks to the simple and
straightforward process. For some of the presentations I had
problems with "Elluminate Live" (I couldn't connect to it) but
I listened to the presentations via my Media Player, so no
harm done. This convergence was gorgeous! |
| 26.
|
The
easiest way I could find to connect to all the sessions that I
attended was to clock on the link on the schedule, but some of
the presentations that had an icon for synchronous didn't have
a link. That was frustrating. |
| 27.
|
I wish
my LAN connection had not developed any problems when I was
trying to log in as a co-presenter to the LT room.Candy had to
do the presentation by herself and she did a beautiful job.
Good luck wasn't on my side that day. |
| 28.
|
Everything was excellent and well organised!!!
Congrats!!! |
| 29.
|
Thank
you very much for the efforts you put in organizing such an
interesting and fruitful conference. |
| 30.
|
I
resoved all my technical problems thanks to Vance , Daf and
Tere assistance. However i missed almost learning Times
presentations because of low connection problems. the ones I
benefitted from that which were held at Aaldo. I hope the next
year I will be having ADSL and much more free time to attend
all of them on whatever platform.Please, another thing to
reconsider is the time between the ending of apresentation and
the beginning of another, especially on two different
platforms...difficult to manage with slow connections. Thnaks
|
| 31.
|
There
were problems with audio in David Winet's presentation. The
sound we heard while the audio was down hurt my ears and I
left—which was rude to Mr. Winet, but still necessary.
|
| 32.
|
As a
presenter, I really didn't understand how to use some the
Moodle to support my presentation. I;ve never used a Moodle
and couldn't figure out what it was for. Also, I had never
used Learning times in live time so I was afraid to use it As
a participant, I kinda wish all the presentations would in one
venue, like Learning Times. I missed all the presentations in
Alado. |
| 33.
|
I think
having so many different tools available was a big plus,
although it certainly added a bit of confusion to the mix. I
didn't like Alado nearly as much as Learning Times elluminate.
I thought elluminate was much easier to use and had a smarter,
more user friendly interface. As Tapped In is simply text
based, it feel is limited in the depth of interaction
possible. |
| 34.
|
difficult to get in once started.
|
| 35.
|
very
brave to attempt to converge multiple technologies.
|
| 36.
|
Learning Times fell after downloading.
Worldbridges worked straight away. i wish Bonk had used that
platform. |
| 37.
|
It was
a nice mix of different venues, which I certainly appreciated.
Even though a central text chat area would have been
beneficial (it could have been tapped in I think but since
worldbridges had theirs... I often got confused. But overall -
I liked it even though it was chaotic at times. This was part
of the fun. |
| 38.
|
No
problem with LT, TI and Alado. Problems witha special
platform( Webtrain) |
| 39.
|
I had
no technical problems. However, I only saw presentations in
Learning Times. |
| 40.
|
It was
great, but I think a clearer program linking to each venue
would be very useful. I always got lost looking for things in
Tapped In and I never found a few presentations. |
| 41.
|
There
are so many good ideas. I'd like to see a continuous focus of
encouraging web heads to connect with each other so that the
good ideas of some can be good elearning and advocacy tools
for others. |
| 42.
|
Changing venues so frequently can be
disastrous for the sound configuration of your computer
|
| 43.
|
This
was so god-awful confusing as any event I have tried to use!
|
| 44.
|
I'm
very grateful to this opportunity to know and test in the same
time, many technological tools for useing in Distance Learning
.I loved all conferences. |
| 45.
|
The
organization of the convergence was excellent. My problem was
that although I have a high-speed connection, I was limited by
my computer`s capacity to upload all of the necessary sites
and so on--it frequently froze or wouldn`t move to the next
slide. I was very frustrated to be indadvertedly shut out of
sessions. For the next (yes, there must be a next) convergence
I will make a point to use a more powerful machine, but I do
think people should be aware that using more sophisticated
software carries with it the possibility of limiting
participation. |
| 46.
|
I never
did manage to get Alado to work. The instructions didn't seem
to match what I was seeing. There were many presentations that
never really got going because so much time was spent on
trying to get participants, and sometimes presenters, hooked
up properly (into Eliminate, chat rooms, getting microphones
working, etc. Having some sort of test sites available before
hand would be good. Eluminate has a test that would be a good
model. |
| 47.
|
I had
trouble with my computer connecting to Learning Times. It took
me over a half hour to get in the conference room. The next
day I wanted to view some recorded sessions and still had
trouble accessing rooms in LT. Then I decided to go to the
properties on my computer for my Internet browser and delete
cookies and temporary files and then I had complete success
every time I tried getting into LT. So, now I will make sure
to get my computer cleaned up before I ever present again, or
wish to be part of presentations. |
| 48.
|
I
didn't have any problems connecting or using any of the
technologies, but I have tried most of them before. I was just
wondering for the participants who hadn't been familiar with
them before... Maybe a tutorial on how to register and attend
a session would be appropriate. |
| 49.
|
I'm in
favor of one single text chat room such as tapped in. All
presenters should look to that chat room for Q&A purposes.
Also in favor of each presenter having a url that would be
listed on the schedule, which url would provide all relevant
details including platform, system requirements, and an
listing of all urls listed with Arabic numbers for easy
reference |
| 50.
|
I was
confused by how to connect to World Bridges |
| 51.
|
I found
the learning environments awkward to use. I don't like having
to download Java everytime I go to a room, and perticularly
object to enabling popups and activeX to use a room. I prefer
something simple and I think many will agree with me. It was
intersting to have the chance to use thwm at the conference
though. I called one of the presentations/environments a
'toy', which I think upset some people. It was VERY high tech,
with many users in a room with webcams, but it was impossible
to hear what was said. Toom much interference and giggling. To
me it seemed the same using video-conferencing for discussing
video-conferencing, as was done for at least ten years before
getting down to presenting an content. The costs are
tremendous; only the rich 0.1% (???) of the world can use
them. Why not use that money for some simpler equipment that
benefits many more people? We tested v.conf. with school kids
and they spent their time laughing at the teacher instead of
doing the exercises. We decided not to use it. |