Arte e Cultura
StreamUK to Webcast World Book Day to Audiences Worldwide
The event taking place at The South Bank Centre is named , featuring Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler , David Melling , Emma Chichester Clark , Korky Paul and Lydia Monks who will be exploring their work with more than 300,000 online viewers.
StreamUK, nominated for 'Best 2011 Webcast' by Streaming Media Europe last year, is providing a full end-to-end service for the event from production, encoding and managing the live stream, to distributing the content to its interactive online video platform StreamMP, via the Level 3 content delivery network.
The use of StreamMP enables live question submissions that will encourage pupils and literature fans to interact with some of literature's top and current authors. Naomi Clemence , a class teacher at Ruchill Autism Unit in Glasgow said; "
webcast hopes to be another form of interactive learning that increases engagement between young pupils and literature old and new.
To watch the online event live on the 1 March you can register for free here, or simply visit http://www.worldbookday.streamuk.com to catch-up on demand.