[Year 12 IT Apps] Streaming point to point in a school

[Anne Mirtschin]

Hi Roland
Have you considered using blackboard collaborate (ex- elluminate). It has a
stronger video streaming option than skype, can be booked free though DEECD
if you are a government school, it will also allow parents to ask txt
questions via a backchannel through the chat option, should parents have
individual access to a laptop or computer etc.
Anne

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:

> We have an interesting AV technical problem and I was hoping that somebody
> would be able to recommend a solution or way forward.
>
> Because of the small size of our new building, we have to run a parent
> information night in three locations. There is an advantage to this as we
> can divide up our translation services. The thought was to broadcast a
> video and voice feed from the main room to projection systems in the other
> locations. It has been stressed that the quality must be good and the
> signal stable. I did think to try skype but it was crossed off the list.
>
> It has already been suggested that we use VLC on a laptop recording a AV
> signal form a good USB camera (video camera??) to stream to VLC players on
> laptops in the other locations for display on a digital projector.
>
> Has anybody else done this before and what have they done?
>
> Regards Roland
>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen
> eLearning Coordinator
>
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