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50 Ways to Integrate Discovery Education streaming
Kim RandallDiscovery Educator Network
Professional Development > Trainer’s Toolkit > Integration Ideas
Multimedia Presentations
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PowerPoint and Multi-Media Presentations A few key terms
Hyperlinking = linking to a website, video, document or slide that is different or outside of your current presentationAdvantage – fast forward/rewind controlDisadvantage – opens a different window, you leave your presentation
Embedding = placing a document, video, sound, image, etc within the framework of your slideAdvantage – looks pretty, you stay within your presentationDisadvantage – lose ability to fast forward and rewind
Instructions for Hyperlinking and Embedding
• Hyperlinking to a Video• Embedding a Video• Really Embedding a Video• Images + Songs
Steps for Hyperlinking
1. Log into streaming
2. Download a video, segment, image, song, etc.
3. Type some text
4. Highlight the text “Some Text”
5. Go to Insert (located in your tool bar)
6. Go to bottom and select Hyperlink
7. Find the file that you downloaded and select it
(note it can be within the same Power Point!)
Steps for Embedding
1. Go up to Insert
2. Go to Movies and Sounds
3. Select Movie from File
4. Navigate to the file that you downloaded
Example of Video + Power Point
Hyperlinked video
Embedded video
Now for something really coolEmbedding with all the bells and whistles! PC ONLY
1. Go to your tool bar and click on the word “View”
2. Click on Toolbars and then Control Tool Box
This will bring up a box that looks like this:
Really Embedding Continued
3. Click on the Hammer And Wrench Icon
4. Scroll down and choose Windows Media Player
This will change your cursor to a + symbol –Giving you the ability to draw a box
Really Embedding Continued
5. Draw a box and then right-click on the box and choose Properties
Almost there…6. Click inside the blank box next to the box titled (Custom) and then click on the three little dots
Finding the video
7. Click on the Browse button to find the video that you want to embed, then check the Stretch to fit button and then click on the OK button
Voila!
You have now embedded a video with controls like fast forward, rewind, pause, etc – play your PPT to see the video
streaming Audio – Song + Power PointDE Streaming has close to 400 elementary school songs on the site. To find them change the Within Drop Down box to Songs and click on the “Go” button
Download the song (right-click, “save target as” on PC or ctl + click on Mac) 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.
JournalingWriting Prompt Builder
(located in the Teacher Center)
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transl8it.com
Have some fun with your writing prompts by typing the question (prompt) in IM lingo
Journal writing via the Writing Prompt Builder in the Teacher Center
Reading Support(Close Captioning)
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Why use Close Captioning in the classroom?
• To help students who are hearing impaired• To help ELL students• 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
Log into streaming and click on the Advanced Search link
Scroll down and click in the box next to “Include only Closed Captioned Titles”
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
CC
Closed Captioning Trick• Font 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
Today is Your Birthday(Calendar)
Located in the Teacher Center
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Calendar• Teacher Center >
Calendar
Calendar• Birthday PowerPoint
– Introduce yourself– One thing you did this
summer– One thing you’ll
accomplish that will make you famous enough to have your own video in streaming
Build Interest with Short Video Segments
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Assignment Builder (located in the Teacher Center)
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Create an Assignment, Quiz or Writing Prompt and Embed the voicethread in the Builder Tool
1. Go to www.voicethread.com and create a voicethread
2. Click on the right-arrow to copy the Embed Code
3. Log into DE streaming and the click on Teacher Center
4. Create a new assignment5. Enter instruction into the
instruction boxes6. Paste the Embed Code from
voicethread into an instruction box
7. Give the assignment code to your students
Graphic Organizers(Tools like Inspiration)
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Embed Discovery Education streaming videos, sounds, songs and more in Inspiration 8
Concept Mapping• Inspiration
– DE streaming images, audio and video
HyperlinkingHighlight text > Tools > Hyperlink > Select the file
Embedding (Inspiration 8)Tools > Insert Video or Sound > Select the file
Other graphic organizers – For Free!
www.mindomo.com
www.bubbl.us
Concept Mapping• Gliffy
– http://www.gliffy.com/
• Bubbl– http://bubbl.us/
• Mindmeister– http://mindmeister.com/
• Mindomo– http://mindomo.com/
Concept Mapping• Mindomo
– DE streaming images– Videos– Websites– Articles
DE streaming ImagesSearch > Select a size to preview > Copy the URL
EncyclopediaChoose Articles from Within Box
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Choose Articles from the Within Box and click on the Go box.
Now ready for another cool trick with PPT?
Recording Sound with PPT1. Click on the word Insert
in your Tool Bar
2. Click on Movies and Sounds
3. Click on Record Sound
4. Click on the red dot and record your students narrating the encyclopedia article that you round in DE Streaming
Quiz Builder (located in the Teacher Center)
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Mini-Movies(iMovie, MovieMaker, etc)
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The Two Minute Digital Story
Green Screen
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• Adobe Premiere Elements– Chroma Key
Special Effect
Learning Stations
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Professional Development
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www.DENcommunity.com
Google Earth and DE streaming
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AFI: Lights, Camera, Education
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Great resource to get your students started with Movie Making in a format that ties the writing process directly to filmmaking
Mini-Units
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Mega VCR
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Mega VCR• Media on your Video iPod
– Videos– PowerPoints– Music– Photos– Animations
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_matters
Interactive Map
1 more
Customized Homepage
Ok, one other idea
Standard
Custom
Engage Your StudentsWhat will you use it for?
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Discovery Education streamingwww.discoveryeducation.com
Discovery Educator Network (DEN)www.dencommunity.com
www.discoveryed.webex.com