Weblog of Wesley Fryer

TxDLA
2005
7 March
2005

Presenter: Lance Ford
(lanceford@howe.k12.ok.us)
- also Scott
Parks (superintendent)
sparks@howe.k12.ok.us

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target="NewWindow">www.howeschools.org

target="NewWindow">www.howe.k12.ok.us

Using software called Wirecast to
stream out his preso

Our philosophy
is that this is the video generation, we try to deliver info at 3 min, then 7
min, then 3 min
- that is the way this
Nin

Topics
today:
- bringing in resources from outside
world
- H.323 streaming and
capturing
- creating streaming
content

presenter’s wife is at home
in Oklahoma, watching this

Free
resources for the classroom

- Apple
Learning Interchange

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Example: Virtual Field Trip via
streaming from ALI website and US Holocaust
museum
- this is a lot more than “here is a
resource, figure out how to use it”
- these
resources are all-incompassing as far as specific
lessons

content on ALI does get
updated regularly

Next is
Annenberg/CPB
- href="http://www.learner.org" target="NewWindow">www.learner.org

- a lot of teacher training content,
videos to use in the classroom, want you to order DVDs but they keep lots of
updated content that you can get free
available

Library of
Congress
- target="NewWindow">www.loc.gov

- Library of Congress is in the process of
digitizing history, can download lots of different media to include in
presentations

Actually had a great
H.323 connection from Howell, Oklahoma with distance learning education experts
at the Library of
Congress

Subscription
Services
- Atomic
Learning
– our business teachers is now
throwing out the textbook and solely using
Atomiclearning.com
– have just switched
lab to all Macintosh
– retention process
have been benefited from

- href="http://unitedstreaming.com"
target="NewWindow">unitedstreaming.com is another great
resource
– can stream content to the
desktop, all educational videos wrapped around national and state
standards
– this company has been great
posting areas of content they haven’t had
before

there is tons about music
composers, auto mechanics
- new section
called “good books,” discovery kids videos from Discovery Education

- his wife is a library/media specialist
turned stay at home mom

They were
about to spend $448 for 4 different
videos
- their yearly subscription to
unitedstreaming.com was $1000 per year, that gives you access to thousands of
video titles
- you can burn these to CD if
you have the
subscription

Participants like how
the videos are divided into increments, you can

Great resource for set induction,
anticipatory set, great to start class with, get their attention, get them right
into the content
- are writing topics for
each day
- many ESCs have bought
subscriptions to
unitedstreaming.com

For teachers and
techies: Streaming with H.323
- lots of
existing equipment (like Tanbergs and Polycoms) have built-in H.323

- you must give out the IP addres to do
this
- you have to be on the same subnet on
the netwrok

this creates challenges
for us
- you do have an option in this
environment to Unicast to OS X Server and reflect
out
– reflect stream to a Mac OS X server
for the world to see
- they are an
all-Tanberg house, they have had tons of problems with Polycoms and
Picture-Tels

Can use a codian IPVCR
to stream content also
- no post-production
required, no compression, ftp, etc…
-
used to spend 4-5 hours for 1 hour
conference
- streams it to the
web

Work closely with
Visionality/Designs that Compute
- IPVCR
just works: it is tremendous
- saw it at
INFOCOM
- they encode lots of title1
special ed for state of oklahoma
- cost
depends on numbers of ports: $12,000 to record one thing, $30,000 at high
end
- can record 10 different conferences
simultaneously, have them available for playback
immediately
– people can use a H.323
device to dial in, or they can use a regular PC to dial
in

Can delegate out rights to the box
to record stuff

Scott Grim calls this
“a TiVo for H.323″

You can call right
into the IPVCR and record whatever you
want

For Techies…. creating content
from the ground up
- want to show how few
steps are required to get from his Powerbook
laptop

Superintendent want people to
be empowered: know the tools, lots of background so they can help make the
equipment work
- try to empower many people
at various levels

1st step: Quicktime
Streaming Server (aka Darwin Streaming
Server)
- can run on any
box

QuickTime Broadcaster is FREE,
runs on any Mac
- both products are
free

They use WIRECAST for
broadcasting, it is $100 or $200
- href="http://www.varasoftware.com/products/wirecast/"
target="NewWindow">www.varasoftware.com/products/wirecast/

Use QuickTime Pro for chop editing,
for $29.95

Creating QuickTime
streaming content
- usiing Quicktime Suite
of Products (there is a Windows broadcast
product)
- download and install quicktime
streaming server
- set to stream on port 80
if the box you are using has it available (this allows you to avoid firewall
issues)

Download and install either
wirecast (company out of England) or quicktime
broadcaster
- hook up camera and/or
microphone
- choose a broadcast audience
(DSL or higher best)
- Chooose a Unicast
STream to your QTSS (this is a key setting that avoids
firewall
- that creates .sdp file that you
upload to media director of local machine
-
then if you want everyone to access it over the public internet, create a link
to that .mov file that is an rttp streaming
file….

this session right now is
being presented live on the web
- are now
broadcasting at 256K for

this
process has literally brought the world to the students in Howell,
Oklahoma

Are team teaching now via
H.323, using final cut pro, other
products
- they don’t have their own
expensive video producation center, but with this setup they have 2 kids and
they are entirely doing their own video broadcast from their
school!!!!!!!
- this is just
amazing!

Are very fortunate to have a
100 megabits to the internet for their
district
- do lots of video
streaming
- their ISP is
onenet

Onenet has committment to
provide T1s or higher to all districts in Oklahoma