I have a computer in the front of my classroom but the podium it is on is so close to the front wall that it is almost painful to stand behind. I also will be breaking my classes into 3 groups during class time and giving each group a separate task to accomplish. One group will be listening to a small lecture that I give, one will be doing homework and one will be watching a video or interesting with a website. For these reasons, I want to create a classroom media pc with a monitoring station in the back of the class with the following requirements:
* 3 wireless microphones at the front of the classroom
* 3 webcams at the front of the class - would probably be helpful if they were wireless
* there is a 52" lcd monitor at the front of the class
* I need to connect an fm transmitter to this mess at some point so that 1/3 of the students will be able to listen to a ppt presentation without interfering with the rest of the class.
* I want to be able to use the 2 existing speakers at the front of the class but also use 2 wireless speakers at the rear
* I need a webcam at the workstation in the back of the class so that I can project myself from time to time on the lcd monitor in the front of the classroom
* I will have a wifi headset in the back of the class. I need to be able to connect to the speakers sometimes and also to the fm transmitter at other times
* I would like to be able to view the webcam recordings from the rear of the class
I do have internet access in the classroom but I am not sure if the connection is fast enough to connect the webcams to the internet and then access the video from the web. If I made a small - wifi - intranet in the classroom would that allow me to do the same thing? And, just to make things more complicated I have to be able to pack and unpack this whole thing in about 3 minutes and take it to another classroom.
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3 mics should be in the three webcams. Wireless headphones with multiple headphones, OK. Front and rear speakers, with PC connections and necessary outputs on the PC, or to an AMP, no problem. Networked station with cam in the rear, yep.
Wifi headset to connect to EITHER of front or rear speakers? On the same PC, not easily. Two different PC, yeah. View the webcam, sure.
In house intranet with a small wireless router, no problem.
Pack up, move, unpack in three minutes? NWIH, you're dreaming.
MAYBE if speakers, large monitor, webcams, and router all stayed in each room. Mount on wheeled trolley, you still got two separate trolleys. Move all that in a hurry, you're gonna break something. -
I'm with Nelson37 on this. You'd be lucky to be able to move & re-setup all this stuff in 1/2 hour.
If each room already had it's own networked PC, cams, mikes, TVs, etc. then you could just log off of the PC in room 1, journey to you next room & log in to your "session" on the PC in that location (with each session pre-configured to show that lecturer's lesson for that day/hour. Kind of like some of the better MOOCs.
This would take some BANK, too ($$$).
Scott
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