The Internet has had a profound impact on education in America. Students have learned to use the Web to research information and connect with the world at large in ways not previously imagined. Webcasting is one of the newest Internet resources that is beginning to have profound implications for education and is being used by schools in many creative ways.

Webcasting in academic institutions has possibilities that stretch the imagination.

In the classroom: Lectures can be recorded and then be made available to students for later viewing. Student skits and classroom activities can be webcast and viewed later that night on the Web with parents who would gain real insights into classroom activities.

On the stage: plays, concerts, guest speakers, dance performances, talent shows, etc., all could be webcast. This is so important for parents and relatives who simply cannot attend a given performance in person but who would love to be able to view it live online.

On the playing field: football, basketball, track events, cheerleading, marching bands and anything else your school does can be webcast. Working Dads and Moms could view events they might ordinarily miss.

Graduations: The time honored tradition of the graduation ceremony is at once preserved and enhanced through the use of the Webcast.Graduations invariably represent an important milestone in the life of the graduate. Unfortunately, seating is typically limited and schools provide families with a limited number of tickets and that in turn poses a quandary for families as to whom to give them to.

The other problem of course is getting to the graduation. Typically colleges accept student from all over the country, and this prevents many people from attendance because the distance is just not practical. And of course relatives of graduating high school seniors often just cannot the travel the distance to be there.

Webcasting provides a beautiful solution to these issues and represents a way for all proud family members and friends to enjoy this milestone event.

WebcastsUSA can produce live video streams of your school's next graduation and broadcast it on your web iite. This enables all relatives and friends of the graduate to view the commencement ceremonies live from anywhere in the world. If it is keeping with your school policy an admission fee could be charged and WebcastsUSA could help in developing a pay-per view model including a secure server for payment.

A concomitant benefit is the ability to archive the entire Webcast so that the ceremony could be preserved on our storage platform for "on-demand" viewing at a later time.

Pay per view: WebcastsUSA is now offering state of the art Webcasting to school districts throughout the area in a way that is not only cost effective but actually may be a way to subsidize existing school budgets. Performances of all sorts can be both webcast live and preserved for on-demand viewing in the future. How does this work?

A good example might be the production of a high school play. WebcastsUSA could webcast the performance. This would allow parents, grandparents, friends and relatives who are simply unable to attend the performance to see it live online! Later the performance could be viewed on an “on demand” basis from archival storage. Children will never again have to be disappointed because someone missed the big show!

How can this generate school funds at the same time? Perhaps the price of admission at the door is $10.00. WebcastsUSA can assist you in developing a pay per view application. This would enable anyone to view the performance from anywhere in the world. Once they log in to a secure page and gain access by paying on a secure server, they are given access to the show for one performance only and the funds are deposited directly into a designated school account. In addition WebcastsUSA could collect the names of those who have historically viewed events and they could be contacted about future school productions.

Of course this is just one example of the many applications that schools could enjoy. The possibilities are endless - graduations, sporting events, lectures, concerts and student productions of any kind.

School cable channel: The local school cable channel has become an important source of information for both parents and students. To a certain extent it has replaced teacher announcements that were traditionally hand delivered by students (papers which were known to get lost on the way home or perhaps just buried in the pile on the kitchen table). School cable channels provide an excellent way for schools to alert parents and students to school activities, remind families of important dates and to offer school presentations of all kinds.

Now broadcasts from your local school cable channels can be captured and broadcast on the Web.This means you don't have to be in your home neighborhood to view programs on the local channel. If you want to see a school council meeting or view a high school football game you can do this online from anywhere in the world. Parents who are traveling can stay in touch with local school developments and for students who are more oriented to the PC then the TV this is a better way to get information.

WebcastsUSA provides live streams of school cable channels for many school districts in US. These school cable channel broadcasts are now being converted to Webcasts and viewed live online. Additionally, broadcasts on school channels can be archived and requested for viewing "on-demand". And WebcastsUSA provides the bandwidth and server space required to accomplish this in a remarkably reliable and very cost effective way.

School archived media: WebcastsUSA is providing webcasting to increasing number of schools.Plays, concerts, graduations, and countless other events are all being streamed live. This provides parents, friends and relatives the opportunity to view student productions of all sorts live on the Web.In fact people tend place enormous value on "seeing it live".But how about wanting to see a webcast event a second time? And how about preserving special events for longer periods of time?For schools the ability to archive and rebroadcast can be of tremendous use and WebcastsUSA provides a wonderful method for achieving this. Archives of class lectures, sporting events, special presentations and endless other activities can be stored on our server and replayed on demand.WebcastsUSA offers a tremendous archival space that preserves and protects Webcasts for future viewing. And webcasts can be requested and viewed "on-demand" for any number of times.

A climate controlled state of the art storage management backup system that utilizes multiple layers of redundancy protects all data and images so that there is never a fear of data being lost. Media is streamed on high speed servers that guarantee reliable and superior performance. And WebcastsUSA is able to provide storage space in increments that will perfectly match the requirements of your institution.