Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Kirk Sundling entitled Low Cost Video Conferencing: Looking at Oovoo and Skype. About 40 in attendance.  A descent presentation. Main points include:

• Uses of Skype
  • Student hundreds of miles away were able to participate in a face-to-face class
  • Invited textbook authors in to join in a class
  • Audio share, video share, desktop share
• Warning when using Skype/Oovoo
  • Video conferencing (VC) without training/knowledge is dangerous/frustrationg
  • Anxiety is high during a VC
  • Consult with IT
  • Test, test test
  • Can be a gamble
  • May not scale
  • Echo is common but solvable problem
  • Jitter, latency, packet loss are common problems
  • Skype/Oovoo don't use H.323 standard, so can't talk with one another nor other VC technologies
• Cool cable to connect PolyCom systems to a PC (perhaps to record phone conferences of weekly departmental meetings?)  Found this through the power of real-time networking via Twitter!  Presenter didn't know where to find the cable, I posed the question to Twitter, and got my response.  Thanks jjjohnson01!