Page 0: Page 1: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Jan Crocker LLC Webcasting Project Page 2: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum  “Dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Lake Champlain.”  Located on shores of Lake Champlain - Burlington, Vt.  A dozen exhibit buildings, a schooner for lake tours and research lab.  Steward for over 300 shipwrecks at bottom of Lake Champlain. Page 3: The Challenge Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to create a webcast series to:  Increase exposure of museum despite remote location.  Extend and deepen reach of educational resources of museum.  Provide ongoing opportunities for surrounding communities to engage with museum. Page 4: The Project Begins Webcast is an ideal media for the site:  Compelling, real stories.  Connected to school curriculum.  Expansion of visibility. Page 5: Getting Acquainted  Meeting and tour.  Becoming familiar with resources and opportunities.  Learning together. Page 6: Collaborative Content Development  Create storyboard.  Block out shots.  Focus on curriculum connections to science, art, history.  Develop interactive Components. Page 7: Technology Platform  Live webcast similar to website video.  Technology is “off the shelf”, not complicated.  Computer connected to internet, plus camera, microphone, and software for editing and graphics.  Created own broadcast channel, but via the web. Page 8: Putting it All Together Completed webcast becomes the first of a series and the template for all the rest. Page 9: First Webcast Broadcast Thursday, November 5th  Surpasses all initial expectations.  570 students and teachers from as far away as Florida and Georgia.  58 emails with questions for the live Q & A.  Unanimously positive feedback. Page 10: