50 Ways to Use Discovery Education streaming

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Matt MonjanDiscovery Education

Build Interest with Video Segments

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• Have students do a “Pair Share” to discuss a video segment they viewed to summarize the content

• Have students create a new narration for a video segment

• Use sound effects to create a podcasts of a student created story

• Turn OFF the sound to a video and have students narrate

How do you feel these examples could support a literate learner?

Listen Up

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DE streaming Audio - Song

DE Streaming has close to 466 elementary school songs on the site. To find them click inside the search box, choose songs within the Media box, and click on the “Search” button

Download and save the song onto your PC and insert it into your PowerPoint

Then add in DE streaming Images or create your own and add!

Want to see an example?

Songs that help teach the English language

• Learning Our Long Vowels (02:56) Long vowels say their names.© 2005 Twin Sisters

• Learning Our Short Vowels (01:47)Learn about short vowel sounds. © 2005 Twin Sisters

• Letters “c” and “g” Have Two Sounds (04:48)In words the consonants C and G are sometimes hard and sometimes soft.

• Q and U Are Friends (01:13) A song about words that start with QU © 2005 Twin Sisters

• Rhyming Word Rule (02:30)• Rhyming words stay the same at the end. You only change the

beginning. © 2005 Twin Sisters • Silly Sally’s Sister (00:29)

A tongue twister with the letter S © 2005 Twin Sisters • Singing the Consonant Sounds (04:36)

A song about words that start with B,C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z © 2005 Twin Sisters

• The Alphabet Swing (01:21)Sing the letters of the alphabet.

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Audio 2.0

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Speech + Wordle

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Get the picture?

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Great White Shark Opens

MouthOne of 21,000

Images

What if this shark could talk?

Match up DE streaming Videos with Blabberize.com

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How do you feel these examples could support a literate learner?

• Use DE images and/or video to illustrate vocabulary words.

• Use a non-fiction video to have students write three facts about the topic or concept thee summarize the information into a paragraph

• Use images from DE and have students create a story in groups--each contributing one sentence at

a time. 

Nonlinear Presentations

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How did we do it?

Here are the steps1. Log into Discovery Education streaming

(www.discoveryeducation.com)

2. Search for an image(s) by keyword – You have your choice of 20,800!

3. Select an image

Cells

Here are the steps4. Download that image and

place it into PowerPoint(tool bar, Insert>Picture>From File…) into slide # 1

5. Now you have that you have your main picture. Insert a Text Box and call it _____

6. Copy slide #1 and paste into PPT as slide #2

7. Remove text box

8. Embed movie (tool bar, Insert>Movies and Sounds>Movie from File)

Here are the steps9. Choose Automatically and the

video will play once you arrive at that slide

10. To go back to slide # 1, insert a return button

11. To insert a return button, click on the down arrow next to the word AutoShape (lower left-hand corner of screen)

12. Choose Action Buttons and then Home

13. Draw a home in on your slide and tell it to go to the beginning slide

Here are the steps10. We also hyperlinked to a video

11. To Hyperlink highlight text or image on your slide

12. Then go back to the toolbar and choose Insert>Hyperlink> and then…

13. A. Choose a file on your computer (video, image,

etc)B. Choose a place inside your document

(another slide)

Today is Your Birthday

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Let’s check out the Calendar(found inside the Teacher Center)

Getting to the STEM of it

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Teacher Center then Stem Connect

What if my students miss class?

Teacher Center then Ready Zone

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Writing Prompt Builder

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Let’s check it out

Quiz Builder

Bonus

Let’s check it out

Bonus

Assignment Builder

I lied

Let’s check one out - http://snipurl.com/copyrightactivity

Reading Support

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Why should we use Close Captioning?

• To help students who are hearing impaired• To help ELL students• To reach multiple modalities• To help struggling readers• To emphasize a grammar or vocabulary

lesson• To use in combination with a writing

exercise• To reinforce a concept

Finding CC files

Downloading a Closed Captioned Movie

• First right-click on the blue download icon, choose “Save Target As” and then place it in a folder on your computer

• Then repeat the process, this time right-clicking on the “CC” icon

• Adjust the CC settings within your Windows Media Player – CC settings

Closed Captioning TrickFont Size

– Open the CC file in a text editing program like Wordpad or Notepad

– Locate the line of code that indicates “font size”

– Increase the font size from 10 to 30 (or whatever you prefer)

– Save the CC file

CC

10 pt

30 pt

CC

In Howard County(for Macs)

http://accessibilitytoolkit.hcpss.wikispaces.net/closedcaptioning

Web 2 Point What?2.0

Keyword search “Web 2.0”

Great explanations of Web 2.0 and copyright in the 21st century

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Digital Storytelling

I Lied

Student Example

Green Screen

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How can we reach the Literate Learner?

• Use the calendar in the teacher center to create a compare and contrast a chart of what happened historically -vs- what

• Use quiz builder to progress monitor reading comprehension by developing multiple choice questions that correspond with a reading selection.

• Incorporate video clips into an interactive powerpoint to introduce a new story and to build prior knowledge.

Atlas Interactive Map

Seriously

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Let’s check out the Atlas(found inside the Teacher Center)

An adventure of a lifetime

It is nice to share

Will this guy ever

stop?

It is nice to share

Lied Again

Professional Development

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Thank you!

Matt_monjan@discovery.com