On October 11 2000, a special live webcast from Race Rocks was arranged for a presentation at the Distance Education session by faculty member Garry Fletcher at the QuickTme Live Conference in Beverly Hills. The Apple Learning Interchange, an educational arm of Apple at the time had helped with the funding to register and stay at the conference.
Photos by Jaffar. Our thanks to Tiyona and Michael, also in the racerocks.com activity, who helped behind the scenes to make this webcast a success in California! ‘
NOTE: Followup on Damien Guihen doing research in Antarctica
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- Ryan Murphy did an excellent job the commentary from Race Rocksfor the presentation in Californis
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- Back at Race Rocks, these pictures by Jaffar recorded the event. From the roof of the boat Second Nature, Damien operates Sorenson Broadcaster on the Apple PowerBook G3 while Ryan monitors on the iBook.
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- Ryan describing what the divers were videoing underwater during the presentation. The webcast was done wireless to the AirPort base station in the marine science centre
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- Jean Olivier, the cameraman for the day prepares his equipment.
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- Karl helps Paulina before entry.
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- Diving instructor Chris Blondeau holds the camera for the entry before handing it underwater to Jean.
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- The divers wait for the word by cell phone from Garry and then they take the plunge.
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- This was all viewed ten seconds later on a big screen by the audience at QuickTime Live!
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- Faculty members Matt Rise and Chris Blondeau feed out the underwater video cable to the divers. This cable enters the G3 by an “interview” cable plug in.
“From my perspective, standing on a stage in front of more than 150 people in the conference centre in California, this was a big risk .. We had already done it to an Apple Conference in New York, but this was the first time the students were managing it completely on their own from the RaceRocks end. Although this was a QuickTime Live conference, several members of the audience remarked later after that this was the first real “Live”and remote presentation they had seen at the Conference. Connections were made at that time with several companies interested in us using their webcasting software. ” Garry Fletcher