Developing Usable Experiences

Class via Video

October 29th, 2007 11:18 pm —  183 views

After a particularly hectic day at work I rushed off to a different kind of class. My CSCW1 course was having class via video today to give us a real sense of what video collaboration was all about. There was one small problem.

The professor asked us to split up. One half was to go to north campus, the other in the same building where class is normally held. I offered to go to north campus2. As it turned out, I had no idea where the building was and wandered around until I was able to find it. I arrived at class about 20 minutes late, all sweaty from rushing around. Lucky for me class was just starting and I didn’t miss a whole lot. But still! What the hell was that? I can’t find the building where I’m supposed to attend class via video? I knew where our normal class was held. While I’m rushing around, that classroom is sitting empty and dark.

Besides that being a frustrating experience, today was a mad sprint like every other day. Working hard as always. But I’ll tell you, I’m looking forward to taking a break later this week3. Granted, if this trip hadn’t been planned I wouldn’t be so stressed out right now. But since was planned early in the summer, I’m stressing about what it is going to mean from an academic standpoint. Oh well, I’ll do the best I can. It is what it is4.

I’m up kind of late on a Monday. I was finishing some work on a hi-fi prototype for a project I have in my Interfaces design class. I’m about to hand off what I’ve been working on for the last 3 days and want it to look somewhat decent. It could take up all my time so I have to draw the line somewhere.

Damn I’m tired, again. School is good, this work is good, my work is good…but then why do I feel so damn ragged all the time? Yes, “this too will pass”.

Image: I took this picture tonight at the start of lecture (at least the start that I was there to see). Kind of interesting…a picture of a picture of a picture. Or something like that at least.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  1. Computer Supported Cooperative Work…this course focuses on computer based collaborative software, like email and Basecamp. [↩]
  2. I was thinking I knew where the building was at that point [↩]
  3. Mostly a break. I have some homework that I have to work on while I’m there, but it’s just sketches so hopefully that won’t suck real bad. [↩]
  4. I have to remind myself of this quite often. I mean really, what can a person do but go with the flow most of the time anyway? [↩]

Related Posts

2 Comments 

Comments

2 Responses to “Class via Video”

  1. Ken Brown on October 30th, 2007 10:27 pm

    well after a unsucessful dear hunting trip with my son ron i’ve been trying to catch up on your blog’s and felt inspired to do an entry in my blog, to find in TERMINATED. Sorry I disapointed the blog master.

  2. Spike on October 30th, 2007 11:08 pm

    Actually, this was a technical issue. After two years of smooth sailing, the server I was leasing at a data center in Florida has gone even more south than it already was.

    As a result, I’ve bought my own server, spent the last couple weeks configuring it and will be co-locating it at a data center in Troy the day after I get back from Hawaii. For now its sitting in my basement scabbing off my Comcast account.

    Your blog will be resurrected once my server is in a happy way. I’m not sure that if I have a backup of your data but there is a good chance I do.

    More on that after the fact.

Leave a Reply




Subscribe without commenting