Excerpt / Summary Some problems experienced at the MOOC:
"19 February 2013
2nd lecture about to begin. Way behind in my reading and didn’t do my homework. Flu, deadlines, and so on, but still feeling guilty, if only to my own little corner of this MOOC’s universe, working group LCL-849. Should catch up by next week!
Hard to find the link to the livestream! Didn’t have the bot-mail ready at hand, and there’s no link to the stream in the obvious place, the home page of the website: http://learn.media.mit..., nor on the Google+ main community home page. I had to dig up the mail to find the link to the Google+ community event under “Register here”. Course navigation requires some rethinking.
Again, no sound, although, again, I checked my settings by playing an ordinary YouTube movie prior to the event! There really should be some test setting, because this way I am going to be virtually late for class every week!
Apparently, something was wrong with the “Media Lab encoding machine”. Must have had something to do with my sound problem of last week. After another 15 minutes last because of restarting my machine, I now get very stuttering sound, of very low quality. Impossible to follow the lecture. Too bad, will try to watch the replay later.
Really weird to see all the tweets passing by of a lecture I can’t see myself. Feel excluded!" |