Streaming the Inauguration In a School?

Anonymous Teacher writes "I work in a small school in Washington and we are trying to prepare a way to watch the inauguration in 20 classrooms over a 1.5 T1. As our bandwidth severely limits the ability to individually stream to these rooms, is there an alternative to presenting it to the students? Are there any sites that offer a downloadable copy of the video quickly after the event that can be hosted locally or is reconfiguring the computers to use a proxy server the best solution?"

Re:television

[WindBourne]

And before that it was radio, before that it press, and before that it was in person. The simple fact is that time changes. I am 49 and would love to have kids see this from the net, rather than the TV. The news will be far more impressed by themselves and will be making loads of worthless comments; CNN will prattle on about this being a black man, while Fox will do everything to warn about the evils of a dem (with tones of it being that it is a black man). It would be better for the kids just to get a straight stream of this from the white house cams. If Obama and the dems are smart (and they tend to be), they will have multiple streams set up for this.

Just do what you did...

[bobobobo]

...for Bush's inauguration! What's that you say? You didn't force all the kids to watch W's? In all seriousness though, why the big deal for Obama's inauguration? What makes it more significant than any other inauguration in the past? Did you guys broadcast Bush's or Clinton's?

Re:TV

[Anonymous Coward]

The high school I currently attend was created three years ago and is definitely a product of the "tech age." Each teacher has a room equipped with a "smart cart" and their own personal laptop, but the school hasn't installed any TVs. There are only two television sets on campus, one of them is owned by one of the teachers and the other is owned by one of the on-campus clubs.

Re:Is this why...

[Albanach]

Most schools have no reason for owning any sort of TV tuner in every classroom, and are located in steel-roofed buildings that do not get reception easily.

Seriously?

When I was at school in the UK we would regularly - though not frequently - use video as part of lessons. The BBC broadcast a whole host of TV shows designed to be shown in the classroom with accompanying teaching material.

Is this some peculiar European teaching strategy?

All our classrooms has access to a TV and an aerial socket on the wall. That was decades ago, seems hard to believe it isn't the case for most schools.

Stinky Mcfartypants

[Anonymous Coward]

We are doing this in our school. We have a computer with Windows Media Encoder 7 hooked up to our satellite tuner with a Hauppauge hvr-1950 and it streams out over the internal network. We have tested it with 40 connections with no hiccups.

Hope that helps

Don't you have channel one?

[kabocox]

I graduated HS in 96 from Arkansas. That was 93-96 in HS and 90-93 in junior high. We had what was called "channel one" almost daily from junior high to the end of HS. What the heck was channel one? About a 5-10 min news program aimed at kids and broadcast to schools through out the nation. They had about a 5 minute local segment where the local school could insert their daily news program if they wanted from the A/V kids if they wanted. I had the impression at the time that it was paid for by a grant or bond or something. Now if we had that in Arkansas back then, I'd assume that every one else had similar educational tools growing up.

If there was any content that the school wanted piped to every one, they'd make sure to tell the teachers and then they'd run it though the tv. They could centrally turn on the tvs play it and then turn them off. (It took effort of a teacher manually turning the things off if they wanted to do something during that period of time.)

I'd really be surprised that in 2008 that there are schools without those sorts of resources. Oh on commentary, what the heck do you think we did for the next 5 minutes after channel one was over? It was discuss/debate what ever the heck was running and wait for the teacher to quieten the room down. We learned more from each other and discussing than from the teacher at that point. The teachers generally thought that it was cutting into their class time and didn't want to waste any time discussing most of the content anyway. It was wait for lunch if you wanted to talk about it. Like we'd have really cared to bring it up by then any way. ;)