{"id":259,"date":"2007-10-19T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2007-10-19T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T04:30:00","slug":"full-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/full-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Full disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course we did have glitches of varying problematicity over the week.  In no particular order but my memory:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>\n<span>screensavers!<\/span>  We used our normal log-in to run the Skype stations, and so the screensaver kicked in every 15 minutes.  At one point I fixed it to kick in only every 30 minutes; sekrit IT codes or something were needed to make it not kick in at all, and everything was always too hectic to actually get around to this.\n<\/li>\n<li>speaking of hectic, it was the <span>last week of term before end-of-year exams<\/span>.  I don&#8217;t think the &#8220;too busy studying&#8221; thing actually had that much effect, but on Friday the &#8220;too busy getting drunk&#8221; thing definitely did.\n<\/li>\n<li>in testing, a couple of us had <span>weird video effects<\/span>, like a yellow translucent bar down the middle of the screen; or our preview image showing pink; or video freezing.  Perusing the Skype forums suggested using the older but more stable version 2.5.0.154 &#8211; we switched accordingly and never had the problem again.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>dropped calls<\/span> for mysterious reasons.  This often required one library phoning another as not all stations were visible from a service desk so they mightn&#8217;t be aware of the problem.  Hypotheses included mischievous students messing with it, screensaver issues, and gremlins.  Once it was our wireless connection failing (though otherwise it behaved impeccably all week).\n<\/li>\n<li>a couple groups of students making <span>rude gestures<\/span> and saying ruder things.  Well, there&#8217;s always a couple who&#8217;ll drag the rest down.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>quality <\/span>was better at some libraries than others &#8211; blurry images, timelag, sometimes voice and image out of sync.  Don&#8217;t know whether this was equipment\/computer-related, or bandwidth-related.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>webcam out of alignment with screen<\/span>, so eye contact fails.  Not much way to fix this with present technology, but the problem was magnified for those of us who projected onto larger screens.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>a computer blowing up<\/span>.  I didn&#8217;t hear the full story behind that so like to think that it was just one of those things that happens, nothing to do with Skype, move along now&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also &#8211; not a glitch exactly &#8211; it was only between two libraries at a time.  Using different software that&#8217;d connect one-to-many, or many-to-many, would increase possibilities for sharing events.  Of course at this time of year we were all too busy to think about extra events.  And also one-to-many would make it much less private for students who wanted to talk to a friend or family member in another city.  So, pros and cons; but it&#8217;s something worth exploring if we do anything like this again.<\/p>\n<p>And there has been talk of doing something like this again, perhaps in a different time of year &#8211; for example during Orientation, or after the settling-in period.  So obviously it hasn&#8217;t all been bad. \ud83d\ude42  For myself, it&#8217;s been a great buzz seeing it all come together, watching the students get so much use out of it, and each day meeting face-to-face more of the librarians who&#8217;ve made this such an amazing event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course we did have glitches of varying problematicity over the week. In no particular order but my memory: screensavers! We used our normal log-in to run the Skype stations, and so the screensaver kicked in every 15 minutes. 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