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.
* 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.