Webcasting

or

Who do you want to meet today?

Webcasting by any other name...

Stories from the Net

VECO Vocational Education Coordinators Online

Compare audio to audio with video

• You're a Natural - Part 1 - sound only
• You're a Natural - Part 2 - sound and grayscale video

What do you think? Is the audio what you expected? Is the video what you expected?

Uses of Webcasts

• Interviews

Interview with Peter McRae: Senior Research Officer, Queensland Bilby Project
Queensland National Parks and Wildlife interviewed by Jane Carr.
A recorded Web Cast about bilbies and Australia's endangered animals.

• Guests  

Your special guest

• Author

Public guests -

• Scientist, Dr. John Beck of Stanford University
• Politician Hillary Clinton from the UN

• Class 

Remote and face to face participants share a teacher

• Marie Jasinski

• Combos

Streaming and Chat

Streaming and a Discussion Board

Streaming and PowerPoint and Chat

Streaming and Chat and the WWW

Meet Janine Bowes VECO Project Officer

Live audio stream

Use the Yeppoon SHS Chat Room to support your webcast at irc.yeppoon.shs.net.au Port 6667

Download mIRC now. (Chat software for PC users -  free to education users)

Thanks to our IRC host - Yeppoon SHS...

Roy Kennedy's Kids IRC example IPT students at Yeppoon SHS.

Techo stuff:

Download Real Player (free) 

Note: The FREE player is at the bottom of the screen, in the blue area. It is called RealPlayer 7 Basic.

Install and test using this file:

Introduction File - sound only

Links to webcasting and streaming sites

Trouble shooting:

Make sure you sound is not muted, your speakers are connected and turned on.

Some networks block streamed media.