Online Video in Education: How schools can use ClickStreamTV for online video

Online video for high schools and middle schools is a great way for schools to communicate and engage their community. From filming events or classroom lectures with a professional camera to using a user friendly, portable flip camera, school faculty and staff have endless possibilities of sharing their message online to students, friends, family and alumni.

For example, several Southwest Chicago Schools including high schools from District 230 and middle schools from District 140 using ClickStreamTV to broadcast their graduations live on the internet. District 230 had first used ClickStreamTV  in 2009 to broadcast their high school ceremonies, and once again used ClickStreamTV in 2010. Although colleges and high schools have streamed their ceremonies live for a couple years now, District 140 led the way for middle schools to use this ground breaking technology and stream their eighth grade ceremonies live as well!

ClickStreamTV provided the Southwest Chicago Schools with an easy-to-use, branded video player for the schools to stream their live video of the graduations ceremonies on the web.  ClickStreamTV was built for users without any IT knowledge, so any staff or faculty member could use the system. The ClickStreamTV system also provided comprehensive video statistics for the schools to monitor the graduation viewers.

Answering the schools’ need for a simple system for friends and family to use, ClickStreamTV system allows the school’s viewers to watch videos from any computer system, smartphone and iPad.  They can also easily navigate through other video content on the schools’ video player, such as past school productions that may be viewed on demand.

With ClickStreamTV’s system and support, District 230 could easily stream their graduation live and add video for on demand viewing, such as the archived ceremony or special events to their ClickStreamTV player.

The schools successfully streamed their live graduation to over 7,000 people who were unable to attend the ceremonies. The system’s automated statistic tool track their video content effectiveness, which helped the schools to evaluate how their videos were received by viewers. With ClickStreamTV, the schools are now able to communicate more effectively with the community by streaming video live or on demand of their graduation ceremonies, sports games, and school productions to special events. They can even improve their email communications by using ClickStreamTV’s Video Email tool, which allows them to target recipients with their videos and messages, and track their effectiveness with the ClickStreamTV statistics tool.