Live Stream sports (and other things) so easy that your coaches (and parents) will bless you!

Do you want your coaches to be able to live stream sports EASILY so that the school, parents and community can watch their kids compete? How about those especially hard to attend "away" games in the middle of the day?  Have you tried other streaming services like Google Hangouts, Adobe Connect, UStream, etc.?  (I don't have a problem setting up these streaming services – but then again, I have a degree in Computer Science!!)

Well, don't fear – here comes High School Cube! (www.highschoolcube.com)

It is available world-wide, super easy to use AND FREE!  And…. When I say SUPER EASY to use, I mean SUPER EASY!!! (Oui, disponible au Canada et en France and כן, זמין גם בישראל)

Here is what you do.....

1. Subscribe to setup a "cube" for your school. (You don't HAVE to be a high school.  I have set up a Cube for Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy Middle School as well as for Shalhevet High School.  It did require that I "authenticate" myself as an authorized member of the school)
2. Set up a broadcast day/time
3. Broadcast from an iPad/iPhone/'Droid device or PC or Mac.

That's it! Done!

Now here is the secret thing… you can also use the platform to live stream graduations and other special events!!  If you are industrious, you can also sell advertising to local businesses for your live stream (there is a sharing arrangement with High School Cube for this.)

What I find very cool is that not only does the platform live stream, but you can set up highlight reels, an interactive scoreboard, upload videos and pictures – it is just jammed packed with good stuff.

But you say…. "An iPad?  Come on Yossie, the video from that is not going to be very good, is it?"

Well, if you spend about $100.00 then you can turn your iPad into a FANTASTIC video camera with optical zoom and wide angle lenses!

Using attachments from IOgrapher (www.iographer.com/), you can turn your iPad into a lean, mean, production video camera machine!  Add the IOgrapher base, lenses and if you want Boom microphone (that is about $130 extra for the professional quality mic – but well worth it) and a wonderful little$4.99 iOS app called FiLMiC Pro) and you have a near production quality system!!!  Use that with High School Cube and you are off to the races!!  What is cool is that with the IOgrapher add-ons, you can make quality movies in the school as well.  Bye bye expensive video cameras…. It turns our school iPads into truly versatile all in one units!! (Oh yes, Dave from IOgrapher offers Educational Pricing!!)

(Special note: If you set up your High School Cube and live stream BEFORE the end of June, then Jim Leo from HSCube will send you a full IOgrapher production kit for FREE!!!!  The ones for Shalhevet and Harkham Hillel are already on the way!!)

Here are the links:

Highshool Cube  http://www.highschoolcube.com  Jim Leo jleo@highschoolcube.com

IOgrapher   http://www.iographer.com/  Dave at: sales@iographer.com

FiLMiC Pro https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filmic-pro/id436577167?mt=8

As always, feel free to share/retweet/post, etc.  And.... give me your opinions via the blog site!  I would love to hear from you.

Yossie

Yossie Frankel
Director - Consortium for Information and Academic Technologies
Member Schools:
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy - yfrankel@hillelhebrew.org
Oakland Hebrew Day School - y.frankel@ohds.org
Shalhevet High School - y.frankel@shalhevet.org
Yeshivat Yavneh - www.yha.org
Arete Preparatory Academy - yfrankel@areteprep.org
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