Online Conference

I am attending online training - .NET for VFP developer for four days, from August 16-19 2005, 1-5pm EST.

It is my first experienced online conference. It is a great. I learn alot not only about .NET framework. I do feel that the concept of online conference is workable. I wish VFP DevCon can be online either, especially good for peoples like me has no opportunity to attend DevCon live!

There are some preparations need to be done to attend online conference :

1. Check out the corresponding conference date and time at your location. Check out The World Clock - Time Zones for more info.


2. Determine whether the conference organizer provides recording setup. You may appreciate it if you feel want to download and review the conference session later.


3. What if conference organizer is not recording the session? Then it is important to get the permission from organizer in order for you to record it at your side. Get ready some of the software for recording. Camtasia is a great recording tool that you can consider. Also, make sure you have enough hard disk spaces. Four hours conference may take out 800MB of spaces


4. Some conference required conference joiner to dial call (international call, may be) in order to get voice (Just like this training). Check out the rate from your telekom. Skype is a excellent tool to use for this purpose. The audio quality is good. Most importantly, it save you alot of money if you need to make international call. SkypeOut Rate is here. You may required to have authenication upon calling in order to get into it. Download the latest version of Skype, currently is 1.3. Prior to Skype 1.3, you may not able to get the authenication done correctly at remote site.


5. Go to Volumn Control | Options | Properties, select you mixer device, recording option. Make sure Stereo Mix is selected. It is necessary to record audio, then only the speaker output could be recorded. Otherwise, you would need to place your microphone beside of speaker.


6. Get your microphone, speaker or headset ready.

Ok, go back for training! :)