Class taught for Fulton County May 2012

1. WELCOME!

2. AGENDA – DAY ONE
 Today’s Meet - How do you use DE Streaming? –
www.todaysmeet.com/DE2012
 Logging into Discovery Education
 Review – How to find, share, save videos / Exploring full video options
 Video Quizzes
 Video Segments as Hooks
 Basics of Closed-Captioning / Advanced Closed-Captioning Options
 Sounds / mp3 / Speeches / Wordle or Tagxedo / Lodge McCammon
 My Content
 Personal Exploration

3. http://todaysmeet.com/DE2012
http://todaysmeet.com/DE2012

4. Diagnostic Assessment
How do you use
Discovery Education
STREAMING to
reach the 21st
century learner?

5. Leverage Media Assets from
Discovery Education STREAMING
to help speak their language
Audio
(speeches,
Videos Images
interviews, sound
effects, songs)
Encyclopedia Builder Tools
Theme Pages
Articles and (Writing Prompts,
and Lesson
Reading Quizzes,
Plans
Passages Assignments)
...and much, much more!

6. www.discoveryeducation.com

7. LET’S DIVE RIGHT IN ….

8. FIND A VIDEO
From the streaming homepage, you
can search for digital media by
keyword, subject, grade level, video
type, video detail, materials, media
pack, or curriculum standards

9. VIDEO SEARCH RESULTS
The video search results
page includes a thumbnail
image, content title, # of
segments, and video length.
“Roll over” a title to review
more information including a
description, preview,
copyright, and producer and
quick links to view curriculum
standards or add to My
Content.

10. SAVE VIDEO

11. SHARE A VIDEO

12. ASSESS STUDENTS

13. Print student quiz as is
Print student quiz key
Save quiz as MS word and
edit
Save quiz as MS word and
edit, with answers

15. Hook your students with
Video Segments!

16. Mathematics > Performance Standards > M4N2.d -
Round a decimal to the nearest whole number or
tenth. (Advance to 32 seconds for hook)
Channel 4 (Producer). (2002). Maths Mansion: Show 06: The Rounding Machine. [Full Video]. Available from http://www.discoveryeducation.com/

17. Use Closed-Captioning to
Reach ALL Learners

18. CLOSED-CAPTIONING
 To help students who are hearing
impaired
 To help ELL students
 To reach multiple modalities
 Higher-level applications:
 Students create new closed-
captioning script/movie is viewed with
sound off

19. Filter for Closed Captioned Titles

20. Setting up and viewing CC

21. How to Download
Media with Closed Captioning
1. Create a folder on your desktop.
2. Right-click on the blue download icon and
select “Save Link As.”
1. Save the video in the folder you just created.
3. Right-click on the “CC” icon and repeat the
same process.
4. Adjust the CC settings within your Windows
Media Player.
1. Click here for step by step instructions.
2. Click here to read more about Closed Captioning on
Mac computers.

22. Three Sources for MP3 Assets
Audio 
Historic
readings,
speeches,
Sound
music Effects
Rain, door
shutting,
animal noises
Songs 
Thematic
educational
songs

23. DE STREAMING Library of Songs
• DE STREAMING has close to
466 elementary school songs on
the site.
• To find them, click inside the
Search box, select “songs”
within the Media box, and click
“search.”
• Download and save the song on
your computer, and insert it into
PowerPoint.
• Top it off with DE STREAMING
images OR create your own!
Example!

24. Lodge McCammon
» Jefferson Davis
» Civil unrest in the land of cotton
» Circa 1861
» Lincoln as chief, the northern states he’s gotten
» To be anti-slave Republic
» Hey! We need those slaves to survive
» The south has a voice, but congress is biased
» We’ll break the heck away and write a constitution
» For these confederation slaves states
» Jefferson Davis is the best solution
» He’ll give us secession updates
» If it comes to war, he’ll have Robert E. Lee
» While the North gets Grant to head their war machine
» Seven southern states put a call to battle
» When they drew this line in the sand
» Shots at Fort Sumter made the sabers rattle
» Now, eleven states will make a stand
» 25,000 dead at Antietam
» And at Chancellorsville Stonewall Jackson faces Southern guns
» The Anaconda Plan restricted southern trade
» Through rail and naval blockades
» So as supplies ran out, so did the will to fight
» Which drew closer the northern blade
» Sherman marched heading to the sea from Georgia
» Burning cities and then major towns
» The north surrounded Lee causing the south to surrender
» At the Appomattox Court House
» April 9th, 1865
» Was the day the Union won the power to survive

27. Get the picture?

28. My Content
Collect
Organize
Share
Retrieve
Media (video, photos, music)
Quizzes
Writing Prompts
Assignments
Accessible from anywhere on the site.
Main / sub-folder
Create hierarchies within content, grade levels or courses.
Share folder contents with your school and your district.

29. Collaborate. Share Content.

30. EXPLORE ON YOUR OWN
Find videos, video segments, teacher guides,
quizzes, and blackline masters.
Look for other resources – photos, audio, etc.
Save to “My Content” / Organize “My Content”
folders
Experiment with closed-captioning
Tutorial resource for review and independent
exploration….
50 easy ways to use DE Streaming