Edmund Fitzgerald - Gitche Gumee

Date 9-22-05

TV17.org will help with the production of a live web cast at Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit, Michigan.

This year's program

A talk with Capt. Don Erickson who searched for the Fitzgerald on Lake Superior the night of the loss.
November 10 GLMI event will be the lamp lighting.
Lee Murdock in Concert.
Don Erickson speaking, the ringing of the bells.
Bishop Ingalls speaking and a finale with Lee Murdock.
The GLMI webcast will be the second one and there will be live questions over the internet that will be accepted like we did last time.

Link to Dossin Museum Live Web Cast Page:
http://www.glmi.org/webcast/Default.htm

What to Expected

Internet media such as the streaming video are meant to be viewed by high speed connection found in most offices or home cable and DSL connections. The videos will display for dial up users but today's technology does not do a very good job of streaming video over slow connections.

Online video is very different than watching a program on your home TV. Screen size is much smaller and quality can degrade if you are using a slow connection with many other users, such as a busy office or heavily burdened cable or DSL connection. Although we are serving the webcast from a major Internet Backbone your connection to our server is only as fast as the slowest point between your location and our server.

That said, Internet webcasting offers small groups an affordable way to broadcast unique programs that would otherwise be unavailable to audiences out side a local community.

How does it work?

The webcast originates from the Dossin Museum on Belle Isle. Two video cameras connected to a computer takes the audio and video and converts it into a digital format. When you log onto the web page the digital files are sent through our Zing wireless Internet connection from Belle Isle and routed across the Internet to your computer. The ability to webcast is an added benefit from our Webcam Project. http://www.glmi.org/webcam.htm

See Video Clip of Capt. Don Erickson at Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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