Video Streaming to Your Classroom

Streaming Video can provide a very powerful tool that can enhance the learning environment both in and out of the classroom because it allows the teacher to enhance the classroom experience by playing media in the classroom with a simple click on a web link. Students can access the videos to study for exams, review information that they may have not clearly understood, or watch the video to build on what was presented in class.

It is amazing that more teachers are not using this technology to enhance their instruction because streaming video provides educators with so many benefits . Consider that:

• most players are free,
• videos can be seen anywhere an Internet connection is available
• substantial collections of video and audio are easily accessible
• the technology requires very little in system resources
• links to videos can be placed in Web Pages or e-mails
• video is never entirely on students hard drive, so students cannot share it illegally
• and, finally, video Streaming content is always current and up-to-date

Here are a few resources to explore.

• Power Media Plus (email your BITS for the passcode information)
  
• Teachers Network
• Teacher's Domain