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Introduction: I just gave my first Skype presentation today, and it felt pretty strange. The technical difficulties mostly arose with the sound. There were heavy echoes and so we ended up just cutting off the sound from the audience. This made it more difficult for me because I couldn’t gauge audience reaction. It was a real challenge to give a talk without being able to hear the laughter of the audience. (I asked them to wave their hands every time they laughed, but they didn’t do so–or else they were never laughing, which would be even worse.) Next time I’ll use the telephone for at least one of the sound channels. The visuals were ok from my side–I just went thru my slides one by one, using the cursor to point to things. I prefer standing next to the screen and pointing with my hands. But doing it this way was ok, considering. The real visual problem went the other way: I couldn’t really see the audience. From the perspective of the little computer camera, everyone seemed far away
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