Worcester Academy's "super-awesome adventure" on Skype at the Obama inauguration
By
Howard Wolinsky on January 20, 2009 in In the news.
The students from Worcester (Mass.) Academy in this Skype Video share their "super-awesome adventure" witnessing the inauguration of Barack Obama today.
They describe slapping high fives with strangers on the National Mall in the record crowd estimated at over one million.
David Bill, their teacher and the director of academic technology, said they had some tech problems competing for bandwidth on the mall. But he said Skype came through "perfectly" as the students connected via webcam to fellow students back in Massachusetts and Maine and to a TV crew at WBZ in Boston.
Students back home saw them projected bigger than life. Middle-school students asked questions via Skype Video and high school students asked questions via Skype chat.
We ended our Video call by slapping virtual Video high fives. A fitting end to a super-awesome Video call.



