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Open Space1 - C-Study

Present: Steve from Princeton Day School, Lan from Ethical Culture Fieldston, and Sarah from Browning

Safari Montage is a streaming video service - video on demand. Must buy hardware - a separate server. Subscription cost is based on per student costs.

Other options - United Streaming - Discovery Education -It's old, and not that great, interface doesn't seem to work very well, bandwith issues, after one year free subscription, many schools got rid of it

Free streaming: PBS, YouTube, Library of Congress - what other sites offer free streaming with great content? Great site below for American History films http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/onlineFilms/ http://www.expertvillage.com/categories.htm

Discovery channel streaming subscription can be obtained from NYSSL funds

From a technology point of view, Safari Montage and other proprietary sites, are perhaps not the wave of the future. By purchasing a server, it's like we are duplicating the work that has already been done by these free streaming sites.

Ways to download videos from streaming: kickyouTube mediaconverter.org - saves youTube to your hard drive School using Safari Montage - King Low Heywod Thomas, CT Director of Technology - William Waldman Setup of server with pre-loaded video was easy and quick. Video streaming only for school use. Unavailable outside school. System is working well however finds it difficult to view list of all the video on the preloaded hard disk. No problems with bandwidth issues Bought the Creation Station option that allows extra physical hard disk room for storing Microsoft files, powerpoint etc and Mp1 movies. Updates to the video is done through a DVD sent by the company.