United+Streaming

On Wednesday, October 29, we will begin looking at [|discoverystreaming] (formerly unitedstreaming). Discoverystreaming is a video service that Summit subscribes to through Discovery Education. It allows us to show online videos on a variety of topics for a wide range of grade levels.

I want to make you aware of a number of uses for discoverystreaming. One we will look at this week is importing video segments into imovie for editing - creating a project building on clips from discoverystreaming. [|Here's a brief tutorial in pdf form.] If you do not already have a discoverystreaming account, let me know and I can get you set up before the next meeting. -karen

In our class, in addition to looking at importing and editing clips, we looked at:
 * media settings (windows media or quicktime)
 * my content (a way of saving and organizing videos and clips)
 * Teacher Center (Lesson Plan Library, Thematic Focus, and the Atlas)
 * and Professional Development opportunities through Discovery Education

This really is a terrific resource and I just hope we're getting all we can from it.