Submitted Question:
Hi I teach Spanish with web cam. I live in Germany and my students live in Eagan Minnesota, I teach all the classes with a live camera, I want to know if I can use The School TV Made Easy equipment in my class?
I'd say yes, as long as you are doing a "one-way" live broadcast. You could use Visual Communicator's live stream capabilities, or even the SchoolTube streaming capability. We will be doing this soon with our "Live @ 9:05" Newscasts from our school, so I will feature more blog articles when we have the knowledge of how to best accomplish this.
In any case, the Getting Started Package will allow you to use any classroom or office as a greenscreen TV studio, for both live or prerecorded projects like we do at my school.
Hope that helps, leave questions or comments below.
You CAN in fact deploy other free options if you do want to interact with your students. Visual Communicator can be streamed right into the Livestream.com server so that if you have "producers" in Minnesota who want to talk to you, they could be on their web cam or camera and talk back to you when you cue them. Ther is also a chat room where they can chat with you.
Alternatively, BlogTV producers interact with potential "cohosts" and other guests in much the same manner. I'm less experienced with streaming directly through Livestream to them. They have a chat room and a way to "take" viewers on their air. I'm less familiar with this product, but it is worth some investigation.