G+ hangout for Bayesian Data Analysis course now! (actually, in 5 minutes)

Here’s the link.

When you’re on the hangout, please mute your own microphone!

I’ll have the computer point at the blackboard. You can follow along with the slides:

for the first hour

for the second hour

P.S. Apparently there is some limit on number of hangout participants (see comments). I didn’t know about that! Maybe next time will try “on air” hangout, I will have to learn more about this.

Next week the teaching asst will do the course so no hangout, then in two weeks there is no class because it’s the day after Halloween and that’s a holiday around here. So we’ll resume this on Fri 8 Nov. See you then!

P.P.S. Those of you who were able to join the hangout: Could you please let me know how the visual and sound quality were? Thanks.

34 thoughts on “G+ hangout for Bayesian Data Analysis course now! (actually, in 5 minutes)

  1. Andrew, why not recording the session? those of us that can not join now could watch it before joining in further sessions. That would be awesome :)

  2. With all due respect, but organizing this with a platform that can only have 10 participants seems a bit ridiculous. Is there any other platform/way to have more participants?

  3. G+ is a bad idea anyway. For people in corporate/hospital/institution settings that do not allow G+, joining is almost impossible.

  4. > Hangouts are limited to 10 video conference participants, with no time limit. You can also use Hangouts On Air to broadcast a hangout to many more people, though there is still a limit of 10 active participants.

    So instead of a simple hangout it should be “on air.”

  5. So there was quite a few pb, each of which has a solution :

    – participant limitation
    – the one way, shared state that is your microphone : everyone can turn yours off, but only you can put it back on. someone turned off Andrew mic and he was busy doing the lecture.
    – slides : it is good to have the video, but also the slides as they are being projected.

    So a way to do this, while still *have the 10 or 15 participants limitations* :
    – setup a ‘hangout on air’ for the video
    – add the slideshare app, which unlike the ‘share screen’ *adds* a visual stream for the audience, and does not *replace* the main stream for the user.

    Then mr Gelman put the slide presentation from slideshare in full screen for the projector
    => he has his usual presentation
    => the audience can enjoy both the video stream of the class as well as the same slides being shown to the classroom

    To remove the 15 people limitation, one has to use 2 services, as they seem to broadcast only 1 video stream :
    – 1 for the video (hangout on air, youtube live, .. ?)
    – 1 for the slides (hangout on air with screen sharing, … ? )

    Anyone has experience to share with those questions ?

  6. Any chance of posting a version of the slides in which all the overlays are shown at once? It would make printing more useful, I think. I believe that if you provide the option “handout” to beamer, that is what you get.

    Thanks!

    • Phil:

      This is probably going to annoy you, but . . . I purposely don’t post the handout version because if I do, I’m afraid students will print the slides and then read the slides and skip the book. The slides are intended to make the book easier to use, but I worry that some students will simply read the slides and nothing else.

      • In my experience, your fear is well founded.

        When did students decide that scribbling on printouts of PowerPoint slides constituted taking lecture notes? Or worse, that PowerPoint slides ought to be a substitute for textbooks?

        What will become of a society in which even university graduates are limited to dot-points as a means of written communication?

        • I would not use PowerPoint if I had the option. However, university lecture theatres, especially those for larger lectures, no longer have chalkboards/whiteboards.

          In small classrooms that are equipped with whiteboards, PowerPoint can be avoided. However, the overwhelming majority of students seem to have lost, or never gained, the capacity to take notes without the aid of pre-printed PowerPoint handouts.

          How do you conduct your lectures?

    • Why don’t you just print multiple pages on one page? Most printers have that option, Adobe Reader/Acrobat also give you an option to put multiple slides in one page.

  7. I was one of lucky ones able to join the google hangout early on.

    The significant problem has already been mentioned, the limits of Hangout:
    1) anyone can accidentally mute everyone (as all of us that joined early experienced)
    2) max limit of 10 not viable

    I am not an expert in Hangout, but I do participate to a live streaming via Hangout for a Coursera course (Asset Pricing by Prof. John Cochrane), and it works well (but they organize it specifically for Q&A, hence small room and two TA’s helping out, i.e. easier to manage). I believe (again I am no expert) that the the youtube video streaming can be “taken down” after the live streaming, in case you really dislike keeping it public.

    Other than the muting glitch, the audio was acceptable. I could follow the latter part of the lecture by looking at the slides on my own. But of course, as suggested above by Nicolas, the slides could be shared from the laptop (even just by sharing your desktop – e.g. I could see Nicolas’ desktop during the hangout).

    To improve the audio, maybe a separate microphone closer to you?

    Lastly, thank you for taking the time to stream your lecture.

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