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CHAPTER 5
The Camera and Voice Pod
The Camera and Voice pod is used for displaying video that is broadcast live to meeting
participants, and it provides controls for regulating broadcasts of live audio and video to
participants. Presenters can send and regulate broadcasts, and they can enable broadcasts from
participants who are not presenters. Unless a presenter enables them, participants cannot
broadcast either audio or video. A presenter can specify that both audio and video can be
broadcast, or that only video or only audio can be broadcast.
For broadcasting audio, a microphone must be connected to the broadcaster's computer.
Similarly, for broadcasting video, a web camera must be connected to the broadcaster's computer.
The following are two scenarios for the use of broadcasting. In the first, both audio and video are
broadcast. In the second, only video is broadcast:
The meeting room is a virtual classroom and a presenter functions as the
Virtual classroom
course instructor. What the instructor says is broadcast to participants. A video camera broadcasts
an image of the instructor as the instructor speaks. Participants in the class are not enabled to use
audio or video. To communicate with the instructor, participants can use the Chat pod (see
Chapter 3, "Using the Chat Pod," on page
17) and the Participants List pod (see
Chapter 2, "The
Participants List Pod," on page
15).
The meeting room is used as a virtual meeting place in which geographically
Virtual meeting
separated colleagues can carry on a discussion. Broadcasting is enabled for all participants. When
a participant speaks, a video image of the participant is broadcast. However, because of limitations
in the way the Internet handles audio material, a conference call is used for spoken
communication between participants, instead of audio broadcasting.
Broadcasting audio and video
If a presenter has enabled broadcasting by participants, your Camera and Voice pod shows a Start
Broadcast button.
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