Hello,
I would like to try and embed an ip cam into a course on our site, The cam will show chicks been hatched and allow students and parents to log in and see.
I have seen it done before, but i can not remember where, and have no idea how to set it up or what plugins to use.
thanks
J
Hi Jon
Great idea I did something similar some years ago with a web cam on stop frame setting left for some tome in the brooder, kids and adults loved the video, was amazing to watch.
Im not sure but have you tried looking at something like justin.tv I have used it for live steaming from my Iphone and i think you can embed the video feed into a web page, thus you could embed it into a moodle web page.
Let me know how you get on!
James
We have used UStream.tv at our school to permit parent viewing of an event in real time. The Ustream viewer can be embeded in your Moodle web page. see http://www.ustream.tv/
Hi Jon, I am with Walter on this one. UStream TV is a wonderful way to set this up. Just last night I was at a live concert at a local coffee shop and used my Android cell phone to stream the concert live (with permission) to UStream and then took the stream from UStream and embedded it into a Second Life virtual reality event so audience members in SL could watch the concert live as well. Moodle will work in exactly the same way!
Awesome thanks, i will give it a try! however i did try and look at ustream in school, but the schools regional filter kicked in and would not let me go to its website!
I will have a word! as i think this should be a nice little project
Thanks again, and i will let you know how it goes
J
Our school used to block ustream.tv because it has a chat feature and we can't have students chatting in class, can we? The block came off when the headmaster discovered the Hummingbird nest cam and wanted our students to see the live hatching of the eggs.
http://www.ustream.tv/hummingbirdnestcam
This, Skype, and other distruptive technologies can be both positive and negative in the classroom. If we insist on blocking all disruptive technologies, we lose any benefit we may gain from them. Should we ban pencil and paper because students use these to pass notes in the class? The solution has to be classroom management, not blocking everything that can be disruptive. Yes, we use Skype to connect our language students to native language speakers around the world. We have had students spending a term abroad who visit their classrooms back home via Skype. And yes, Skype is a problem for our teachers and they have to deal with the problems.
There are some cloud based services providing great solution for IP camera. Using these services you can easily broadcast the video stream of your camera and you can embed the live video into your page.
One of the best is IPCamLive. This can receive the video stream directly from the IP camera so you do not need additional PC for transcoding/streaming stream the video.
http://ipcamlive.com/howdoesitwork
