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I’ve been meaning to put up information regarding my experiences with 2.4GHz 802.11, amplifiers, and antennas. I have designed and implemented some installations for ship-to-shore use, to provide high speed TCP/IP communication to the Internet. There are some radio power restrictions to be aware of and ways to calculate the power output of a 2.4GHz system. Also, there are different places where you can purchase this equipment, to help keep down on the cost… which is always a factor.

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This is a paper that I presented at the Northeastern Educational Research Association Conference (NERA) in 2003. It describes the use of 802.11b wireless networking technology to support broadcasting live video from a research vessel at sea. This paper discusses how this technology was utilized for supporting learning in the Classroom of the Sea Project. The overarching goal of the Classroom of the Sea Project (COS) is to enhance scientific literacy and provide greater opportunities for deaf students by developing and testing the effectiveness of an authentic learning environment and problem-based learning to teach science to deaf students, and to demonstrate the features of the model to others so that they may adopt them under different authentic learning contexts (Babb, Brown, & Schifele, 2001).

Download the paper Wireless Networking and the Classroom of the Sea [148KB] (Adobe PDF).