PUSD Parents and Community,
We profoundly apologize for the technical issues regarding the live streaming of the PUSD parent forum covering the opening of the 2020-2021 school year. We partnered with PUSD in an effort to equitably include as many parents and community members as possible in the discussion, taking into consideration the viewer's native language and device used to access the internet.
We opted for Zoom because of its ability to have an easily accessed live interpretation channel. Knowing that the 300 person limit might be reached and that PUSD issued Chromebooks couldn’t access a Zoom meeting, we tested and planned for the video to be live-streamed directly from the Zoom app to our YouTube and Facebook pages. Because the Zoom app would only live-stream the English audio channel, we enlisted
KLRN to stream the meeting with Spanish audio
out of the computer in their studio directly to the KLRN YouTube and PUSD Facebook pages.
We do not know the cause of the problem, but starting at 4:30 pm, when we went to start up the live streaming, we were unable to do so. The Zoom app continuously timed out and would not allow us to stream to either YouTube or Facebook. We made repeated attempts to fix the problem up to, and during the meeting. Our 300 person limit was quickly reached within minutes of the meeting start time and those who could not get in, instead of automatically being routed to the YouTube stream, were left to wait. For this, we are deeply sorry.
We have now posted the recording of the meeting, in English, as well as a PDF of the slide deck used during the presentation.
PDF of the slide deck
here
