Discovery Workshop for Cache the Wave

Using the Power of Digital Media with Discovery Streaming

Deborah Thonus

Cache the Wave

Barnstable High SchoolJune 14, 2010

Agenda: Introductions Breaks and bathrooms- The important stuff! How do you use Discovery Streaming? Search tips Play time!

Discovery Education Student Center NEW!!! Writing Prompt Builder Quiz Builder Assignment Builder- media driven assignments for school and home Teacher Center and Professional Development DEN

PowerPoints with Discovery’s images, sound clips, and embedded videos Play time!

Glogster with Discovery Streaming assets Play time!

*Windows Movie Maker and Discovery Education *If time…..

The Power of Digital Media is at your fingertips!

A Guide toDiscovery Education

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Strategies for Training andImplementation

From the streaming homepage, you can search for digital media by keyword, subject, grade level, media pack, or curriculum standards

streaming Homepage

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.

Video Search Results

You can stream the full video by clicking on the “Play” button , save the video on your computer by right clicking on the “Download” button and selecting “Save Target As”, or add the file to your “My Content” libraries.

The More to Explore section includes content that is relevant to the selected title.

Full Video Description

All videos have a description with information about the length of the video and shows the number of segments available. Note the ability to generate a “printer friendly” page and rate the content.

Video Segments divide the selected video into short segments that can be streamed or downloaded for use with presentations, classroom projects, and student activities.

Click on a segment to play or right click on the “Download” icon to save video segments to your computer. Click the drop down box next to “Add selected items to” box if you wish to include the segments in assignments, quizzes, or Playlists in your “My Content” materials.

Video Segments

Since all of the digital media on the Discovery Education streaming site is protected by copyright, it is important to include the proper citations for the videos, images, and articles you download from the site.

The “Citations” tab displays the essential information in three accepted formats. Just copy the data from this page and paste it into your presentation and lesson files.

Citations

Related Materials

When you click the “Related Materials” tab, you will see links to a variety of resources including Teacher Guides and Blackline Masters.

The Media Settings controls are located directly under the viewer and give you the ability to enable the closed caption text display and select the media player you prefer to use to stream or download a video.

Media Settings

My Content is a new and versatile space that you can use to organize personal Playlists, assignments, quizzes, and writing prompts as well as share resources with colleagues.

My Content

Let’s Play!Take a break, chat together, then start downloading Discovery assets. When should we start up again?

Create a folder on the desktop.

Start a document for citations and save to the folder.

Download several images, a video segment, and any other interesting media like songs, audio, etc. (Remember to copy citations as you download.)


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With My Classrooms, you can build and manage your classrooms and assignments. Students visit the Student Center to access these materials.

My Classrooms


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Spark Creativity and Foster Learning•Enhanced Student CenterMake time in the library, at study hall, and at home as educationally relevant as class time.

Included with your subscription, DiscoveryEducation.com’s Student Center is accessible at school and at home. The Student Center enables educators to tailor content to groups of students as well as individuals.

Designed to make the rich world of Discovery Education accessible to students, Student Center supports independent and self-directed learning as well as encourages student ownership of projects.

•Maximize computer lab time•Support individual learning styles•Engage students with rich explorations•Block access to content based on your preferences•Access editable clips for use in student projects

Student Center also allows educators to assign content to students and receive timely feedback from student quizzes and assignments.

The Writing Prompt Builder provides a tool to let you create your own writing activities using digital images from the Discovery Education streaming library. You can use the completed

prompts directly from the site or give students access through the Student Center.

Writing Prompt Builder

With the Quiz Builder, you can modify existing quizzes or create your own online assessments using digital resources from the Discovery Education streaming libraries. As with projects

created with the Assignment Builder, students visit the Student Center to access these materials or log into their own student accounts to access assigned quizzes or assignments by their

teacher.

Quiz Builder

With the Assignment Builder, you can create online activities that feature videos, images, encyclopedia articles, and calendar events that you select from the Discovery Education

streaming libraries. Students visit the Student Center to access these materials.

Assignment Builder

The Teacher Center contains a variety of instructional resources and tools..

Teacher Center

The Calendar tool is a great way to locate videos that are associated with important events in history, prominent people, and commemorative events and cultural celebrations.

Calendar

Choose from over hundreds of full lesson plans created to accompany selected videos in the Discovery Education streaming library. The lessons can be downloaded or added to My Content, and most are available in both PDF and Microsoft Word formats.

Lesson Plan Library

Each week, a new Thematic Focus is posted on the site and each unit includes discussion guides, lesson plans, media links, student activities, and related materials. Here is a small sampling of the Social Studies themed units that you can download and use with your students.

Thematic Focus Themes

Inspired by Discovery Channel's landmark ATLAS series, Discovery Education streaming provides a unique video guide to our world. Featuring exclusive clips from Discovery's ATLAS series, this interactive map provides thousands of videos that show off the wonders of countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Zoom in to each country and learn about its culture, government, history, and the natural world.

Atlas

The Professional Development segment of

the site is designed to connect users with essential training

materials, interactive training modules, and a variety of professional

development opportunities.

Professional Development

The Discovery Educator Network is a community of active Discovery

Education streaming users who share their expertise with

colleagues and participate in regional and national professional

development events

Discovery Educator Network

Now what?Let’s take another break. Share your ideas and thoughts. You may want to pair up with someone in your field.

There are three common ways that you can use downloaded video segments:

Standalone files: Just double-click on the file icons to open the preferred media player to play the segments.

Hyperlinks: Create hyperlinks in most standard applications to link words and pictures to video resources that you wish to add to your lessons.

Embedded Video: Insert video segments directly into documents and slides and view the segments without using a media player.

HyperlinkingIn software applications like Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, and many others, users can click on defined hyperlinks to view video segments with a specified media player.

Embedded VideoPowerPoint, AppleWorks, and Keynote are among the software products that allow you to embed video files right onto the pages and slides that you have created:

Downloaded Segments

PowerPoint Example

Play time!

Create a short PowerPoint style presentation using Discovery assets from

your folder. Make sure your presentation is saved in the same folder.

During student presentations, mute the sound and have students write their own narrations for video segments.

Play segments with sound but without video display; encourage students to listen for details and unique sounds before they write.

Even with short segments, stop to discuss specific frames in the video or use the still images for writing prompts.

Some Teaching Strategies to Consider

Create lessons and projects in which students are always actively involved in the viewing process and follow-up activities.

Try creating individualized projects that students can access on “learning centers” in the classroom or computer labs.

Be sure to pose questions or prepare thought-provoking “lesson starters” before viewing to actively engage students.

Teaching Strategies

No video editing software is permitted except for those titles that have been designated as “Editable Content.”

Students are allowed to keep projects containing video segments in their electronic portfolios if used for demonstration purposes.

Teachers may keep video files and projects on disks and servers as long as the Discovery Education streaming subscription is current.

Protect the content, especially when creating web pages, so that only subscribers are able to see the video files.

Converting digital video to analog format such as VHS cassettes is not allowed—only digital devices may be used.

Use the dynamic citations provided with Discovery Education streaming digital media when you cite video resources and support materials.

Protecting Discovery Education streaming Content

Copyright Issues

Portable digital media Laptop computers and iPods External hard drives Digital camera media cards Workstation hard drives Global shared folders and volumes on network servers Multimedia Stations and classroom learning “centers” Dedicated video file servers

Since all Discovery Education streaming media has been licensed in digital format, users are only permitted to save downloaded video files, segments and images to digital storage media. The following are some of the common options for saving and transferring video segments and digital images:

File Storage

Play Video

GlogWow!

Examples:

Learning Center: http://dthonus.edu.glogster.com/whales/

Webpage: http://dthonus.edu.glogster.com/Chris-Van-Allsburg/

Student work: http://s017.dthonus.edu.glogster.com/whos-your-whale-now/ http://s001.dthonus.edu.glogster.com/colonial-times/ http://s010.dthonus.edu.glogster.com/Taylors-Penguins/

Collaborative Project:http://s008.dthonus.edu.glogster.com/thank-you-cape-cod-canal-rangers/

Play time!

Create a simple Glog using Discovery assets from your folder.

Video clips must be smaller than 100 MB and take FOREVER to load.

Be patient. It sometimes seems like nothing is happening.

Did we make it in time for mash-ups?

Thank you for being a great group!

Go, Play, Share!Ask me about getting extra PDPs.

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