Time managment for regional meetings

We have regional review every week for several years. One of the issue is to allow a reasonable amount of time to each participants and to allow time for interactions and feedback.

Those sessions are in videoconference, some time in Zoom some time in Jitsi and those tools alow only screensharing, webcam and a chat channel.

Here I am emulating a webcam with OBS Open Broadcaster Software software in wich information are displayed.

I wrote a simplified Processing code.

Processing code

Processing is a langage for visual arts and visual literacy within technology.

File code : processing_002.pde

When executed this code launch this counter window .

The counter start decreasing. When you click on the square, it restart the counter and change a few other parameters : actual time, remaining time, student counter … In the code you can edit the number of students, the total time, some extra time, interaction time .

For the last 30 seconds (treshold_time) , the background color change to red.

OBS software

With OBS software, a video mixing software, you can include this window in full screen

And you can add also your own webcam.

By cliquing on “start a virtual camera”, obs create a virtual webcam.

Zoom or Jisti

In Zoom, select “OBS virtual camera” as video source.

You can always modify in real time your OBS scene, create several scene with only your webcam or only the processing window and switch from one to the other.