Successful Ustream for The Stephens Family

Yesterday, through the magic of technology and a little help from above, we were able to send a live stream from Pittsburg, KS to KU Medical Center so that Jeff Stephens could watch his daughter graduate high school. (See story here)

I was very excited and nervous to have this opportunity. You never know with technology what can and usually will go wrong.

Thanks to Brian Boore for going with me to PSU on Thursday,
making sure that our computer and connection was adequate and for the equipment needed to make this happen.

Thanks to Tom Holt and PSU for working with us to make sure we had a good connection in the Weede building.

Thanks to Russ for coming out Sunday morning to get the cables I
forgot to do the broadcast! Russ was also the man behind Sunday's
broadcast that made sure the stream was going out and had sound.

This could not have been possible without all of you and the many of
people that have also helped us with streaming along the way.

A special thanks to Ustream.tv and Brad Hunstable this has opened up many doors for us and other educators!

Sunday afternoon, I got to the building a little after 1pm. Got everything setup and then started having some trouble. Firefox would crash when I tried to go live with the stream. I restarted my machine 3 or 4 times. Finally, between 1:45 and 1:50 the stream started working and Russ helped me get the audio sounding good. For the rest of the graduation we had a great signal and un-interrupted stream.

I am so happy that things worked out and we were able to help Jeff and his family at this moment in time.

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