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With Discovery Streaming
you have more than 4,000 educational videos
available for use in the classroom—at any time you
wish!
Discovery Streaming
is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you
by Discovery Education.
With Discovery Streaming, you get:
· The largest
and most current K-12 digital video/ video clip
library available today
· The only
standards-based video-on-demand application shown to
increase student achievement
· Practical
teacher and student learning resources
· Access to a
wide variety of producers—Discovery
Channel School,
United Learning, Standard Deviants, Weston Woods,
and many more
· Unparalleled
options for customization and local control
· New content
and features continuously added throughout the year
To log into united streaming you must first enter
a passcode to create a new account. Please contact
Mike Bachrodt, x2760, for this passcode.
Follow the instructions for creating a new
account and you are ready to go. Play with Discovery
Streaming website. There are many ways for you to
incorporate video into your lessons. You can even
use snippets of an entire video so you can take only
what you need for your class. It is a wonderful way
to enhance your lessons.
By the way, there is no need to save any
video to your H drive as the District has a special
arrangement with Discovery Streaming that allows us to
house all the videos right here in District 211.
Access will be fast! Saving videos will only cause
our server space to be used up so please do not
download and save a video!
TIPS
You may not
know that your
STUDENTS can access
and use the same videos
and video clips! It's easy; they go to
Discovery Streaming and use the passcode you supply
to create a user name and password. (The passcode is
available once you are on Discovery streaming, under "My
Preferences".
How is this useful? In a practical sense, if a
student misses a day with a movie, it is easy for
them to make up. Or, students can find clips of
educational movies to use for their own
presentations (Thanks to Josh Teschner for that
use.) Furthermore, the Discovery Streaming site
emails you when a student uses the site. The site,
itself, provides many more ideas of how to utilize
it, including creating quizzes for students to
access through the site that show images or clips
for each question, if you so choose. There are also
lesson plan ideas and discussion guides available.
So, its more than just an easy movie source to
stream into the classroom...it can be.....interactive!
(Nicole LaBeau, English, October, 05)
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