REMC MI Streamnet

About MI Streamnet

MIstreamnet delivers streaming video to educators in Michigan, and increasingly, across the country. The project was initiated as a means to provide live and on-demand video resources to educators and the public: professional development programming, curriculum content, and coverage of other educationally related government events such as State Board Meetings. The Fiscal Agent for the project is Wayne RESA.

Financial Statement
REMC MIstreamnet is a project funded by the non-profit REMC Association of Michigan. REMC MIstreamnet is free to content viewers.

Revenue
The REMC Association contributed $60,000 to the project. There were user fees (from organizations generating content) which contributed an additional $8,300.

Expenses
In the 2006-2007 year of the project, the project had expenses of $84,304 for staff time, hardware, software, Internet service and server co-location charges. The difference, $16,004 in expenses, was borne by Wayne RESA.

REMC MI Streamnet Administrators

Ken Schramm, Project Manager

Darrell Wanamaker, Technology Administrator

William Turner, Server Technician

The REMC Association of Michigan provides proactive leadership to the Michigan educational community by participating with other organizations in building a vision that supports quality teaching and learning and provides equity to Michigan's Pre K-12 students.

The MI Streamnet project is administrated by the REMC Association of Michigan. REMC centers around Michigan participate by relaying streamed programs to the areas they serve, and some REMC's originate content as well.

Merit is a non-profit corporation based in Ann Arbor whose mission is to make Michigan a showcase for high-performance networking. Merit is governed by Michigan's public universities, was founded in 1966, and was America’s first regional research and education network.

The primary and auxilliary relay servers for MI Streamnet are housed in the Merit facility, and are connected directly to the MichNet network backbone.

Apple Computer, Inc. provided technical assistance to the MI Streamnet project during it's early stages, including working with Michigan REMC and Merit Network to establish the initial relay network.

Apple's Quicktime media player application, which is used to view MI Streamnet, is available free of charge to the public.

MI Streamnet offers RSS feeds of both Recent Events and Upcoming Events. To subscribe, you can click on the RSS icon in your web browser's address bar or navigation area.

For more information on RSS, read the wikipedia entry here.

To view Live and On Demand events on MI Streamnet, you will need the free QuickTime Player application, version 7.0 or higher, and a broadband internet connection. For additional viewing instructions, download this PDF file.

Since Live events occur at a specific time, viewers should test their connection a few days before the event by selecting 'Live Video Stream' from the left navigation area. There is usually a test stream from Annenberg CPB, and if you can view this test stream, you will be able to view the Live event. If you have trouble, see the 'Tech Support' section.