updated the 3rd of Septbember 2012
The Saba Centra software has been kindly shared by EUMETCAL for transmission of a few Lake workshop sessions via internet. Centra session allow you to listen and give presentations from remote PC with internet connection and headphone, preferably using a modern Windows system equipped with firefox/internet explorer browser and java.
We plan to transmit via Centra two sessions on Tuesday and one on
Thursday, about two hours each. These sessions are linked to the
Programme (html). You can join a session 15
minutes before the start, to tune your system for transmission. The
sessions will be recorded and made available afterwards. Please note
that you can also yourself store the session (agenda) as pdf, which
means that you will get a pdf copy of the presentation slides. For
this you need to press a button on the left-hand-side panel.
To join a session and listen a recording, you need a
password. It is the same for all sessions and given in the end of the
Programme. To login, you are asked to provide your e-mail address and the
password. The sessions are open to everyone providing correct
password, even without registration beforehand.
Please point your browser Firefox/Internet Explorer from a Windows system to eumetcal.centra.com . Choose System Check from the upper blue line and follow the instructions. It should be sufficient to perform the system check once for each computer. You might also check the title "Public recordings" on the left. There are a few recorded lessons, which you may open without password. When prompted, please give your e-mail address to start playback. In fact, you can also join our sessions before the scheduled time. Only there will be no slides and most probably no other participants. However, you should be able to see how the interface looks like and press buttons, as well as to start the technical test from the session.
Lake workshop internet sessions will be available 15 minutes prior the
scheduled time. You can find them in two different ways: following the
links in the Programme or directly from "Public events" at the
eumetcal.centra.com site (choose to show "All"). Press "attend" to
join the sessions.
Note that all times are given in UTC! And sorry for the early
mornings for those living too far west from Helsinki ... Please
remember that you can well join from your home laptop, from the
kitchen table for example.
As a participant, you can follow the presentation, raise your hand to comment or ask questions, send signals of approval or disapproval etc. You will see the slides and hear the voice of the presenter. You are not in a video session, so you cannot see the presenter or wave hand to the the other participants.
If you have technical questions during the sessions, you can use text chat to send a message to the session leader. Please do this in case you e.g. cannot hear anything - there may be a problem either in your computer's sound system or in the sending microphone.
At the Saba Centra site you can find information for participants, like this quick reference (pdf) for the desktop users. You should join as desktop user, because this gives your the best quality of session. Unfortunately, this means that you can join only from a Windows (or Mac?), Linux does not work properly.
For Centra, slides as ppt will be needed. Internally, the system will convert the uploaded ppt slides to jpg, to save time and space. A presenter or co-presenter has a full control of the slides (he/she could e.g. jump from one slide to another in any order), the students will follow. You will be given the floor by the leader of each session.
Request to the presenters: please provide your slides well before the session by sending them to the organisers. We will upload them for you to present. Animations should be uploaded separately, for the participants to download and watch in their own computers. To be sure, most common formats for animation should be used. Or still better, do not show animations! Sharing of desktop is in principle possible in Centra, but in practice not advised in this kind of workshop presentations.