Technology Novice Actually Gets Something To Work (Relatively Speaking)

I did it, yeah, yeah, I did it!!!  I am so excited.  I just completed my first tokbox video chat with two of my peers!  I am so excited.  Why, you might ask?  Because this sort of thing never, may I emphasize never, works for me.  Hence the name of the blog.  Seriously, I am not kidding.

I learned about tokbox yesterday and was interested because you can video chat with more than one person.  I've used Skype a couple of times and have been ever so happy with it, but I really wanted to try to see if we could see each other for our meeting today.  Remember, I'm old school, I tend to believe that communication is even more effective when we can see each other.  Well, maybe not so much.  While we found it to be wonderful to see each other, the feedback from the audio and different quality of our images was a bit distracting.  But, honestly, I was so darn excited that we got the video and audio to work that I didn't notice as much.  My peers, however, did not agree.  So, next weekend, we're spending a bit of time with Skype!  I'll be interested to compare the experience now that I've been able to utilize another type of program.

I do have to share that I tried it out with my sister and brother-in-law this morning. (Yes, I had to do a dry run before my meeting . . .   And, yes, that's me not trusting that everything is going to work.)  We were not able to sustain the video and audio throughout the entire conversation.  But, I got to see them both which was great as it has been two years since I've seen them.  What a gift to be pushed out of one's comfort zone to give something a try!