Webcasts

=**What is a Webcast?**= A webcast, broadly defined is 'meeting' that takes place over the web. Webcasts may take the form of presentations out to attendees of the webcast and/or interactive dialogue between the attendees. Webcasts may include audio, video, text and/or pictures.

**Examples of WebCasts:**

 * Microsoft Educational Webcasts http://www.microsoft.com/Education/WebCasts.mspx
 * Workforce Education Webcasts http://www.nccte.org/webcasts/index.asp
 * Steve Hargadon webcasts [|http://www.stevehargadon.com]
 * SET-BC http://www.setbc.org/

**Potential Uses of Webcasts in the Classroom:**

 * Peer tutoring
 * Distance lectures
 * Inter-class or inter-school meetings or presentations
 * A story-a-thon
 * 2nd Language Learning
 * Providing technical assistance over distance
 * Allowing students to work in virtual groups
 * Q&A answer session with students
 * Consider buying an inexpensive webcam, and programming an [|Intellikeys] keyboard and overlay to record video. This makes shooting video a simple process, regardless of disability
 * Software applications like [|Kurzweil 3000], [|WYNN], [|Clicker 5], [|Premier Assistive Technology] Applications, and [|UltraHal] can convert text files into MP3 files that can be downloaded to an MP3 player or burned to CD

**Tools to Create Webcasts:**

 * SkypeCasts - up to 100 people, audio only https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/home
 * Free High Speed Conferencing 100 people audio only http://www.highspeedconferencing.com/
 * Nice Cast(Mac) http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/
 * Odd Cast (win) - Broadcast http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv3/
 * Elluminate [|http://www.elluminate.com]
 * Unyte - application sharing, powerpoint broadcast http://www.unyte.net/download/default.htm
 * InstaCollab - application sharing, powerpoing broadcast http://www.instacoll.com/
 * Free website to help you convert media file formats (audio, video and text) http://media-convert.com/

Inclusive Webtools Wikispaces Webcast:
A little about RTI and UDL. ..