Discovery Education Streaming: Beyond Video

Shawn Brandt

You know DE Streaming is a great place to find video content related to your curriculum, but this service offers so much more. Learn how to use Closed-Captioning, find lesson plans, and travel the world with the Atlas Interactive Map. Create online activities with Assignment Builder, Quiz Builder, and Writing Prompt Builder.

NOTE: You must be logged into Discovery Education Streaming to access many of these resources.

Review of DE Streaming Basics

• How have you used DE Streaming? (poll)
• Three ways to search for video content (PDF)
  1. Keyword search
  2. Subject/Grade
  3. Curriculum standards
• Streaming vs. Downloading (PDF)
  • Stream to preview
  • Download to use in class 
    • TIP: Create a folder for content of the same topic/unit.
• Adding videos to "My Content" (PDF)
  • TIP: Create a topic folder to collect all of your content. 

NOTE: To help me stay on schedule, I will be using Cool Timer. It's a free download and great for classroom activities!

50 Ways to Integrate DE Streaming (PDF)

Summarized in 15 examples

Section One

• Set your "My Account" information (PDF)
  • My Preferences
  • My Homepage
• Using video in PowerPoint
  • Create a "topic/unit" folder
  • Save this PowerPoint sample in the video folder you created: DE Streaming Sample.ppt
  • Linking a video in PowerPoint (PDF)
  • Embedding a video in PowerPoint (PDF)
    • PowerPoint 2007 (TIP Sheet)
    • PowrePoint XP (TIP Sheet)
• Writing Prompt Builder (PDF)
  • Summer Barbecue (sample)
  • TIP: Landscape pictures fit best on the screen.
• Closed Captioning (PDF)
  • TIP: When downloading, make sure the video and CC files are named exactly the same.
  • Windows Media Player settings... from the menu, do the following:
    1. Tools >> Options >> Security >> [check] Show local captions when present >> [check] Run scripts when present >> OK
    2. Play >> Captions and Subtitles >> On if available
• On This Day in History... Calendar (PDF)  

• Use as a "Bell Ringer" activity
  • Start video when class begins
  • Journal about the video content
• Link videos with mind mapping programs (PDF)
  • Inspiration project (sample: Causes of World War I)
    • Inspiration 7 (TIP Sheet)
  • Online project with Mindomo.com
    • Mindomo map (sample)
• Quiz Builder (PDF)
  • China Today (sample)
  • Extra credit assignments
  • Differentiated learning
  • Learning stations
• Silent Films
  • Show a short video segment with no audio
  • Students offer ideas they think the video is about
  • Research and write a script for the segment
  • Playback video with the audio
• Great Books series
  • Keyword search: "Great Books"
  • Introduce a book before it is read
  • Reinforce understanding after chapters have been read  

• Create Mini-Movies (PDF)
  • Assign groups sub-topics to cover a larger topic
  • Students research and write short scripts for a video
  • Collect video segments for students
  • Students use MovieMaker to create 2-3 minute sub-topic videos (PDF)
  • Combine all of the subtopics to create a 20-30 minute video about the main topic
• Create a WebQuest (PDF) 
  • Use the Assignment Builder to create a webquest (sample: The Teen Driver)
    • TIP: Use your TeacherWeb site as a "portal"... link the assignment from one of your pages.
    • TIP: Check the Display to Students box if you want the instructions, objectives, etc. to appear. >>>
    • Create an assessment with Quiz Builder
  • Other webquest alternatives
    • TrackStar (Sample)
    • Word (Sample)
    • PowerPoint (Sample embedded below)
    • | View | Upload your own
       

• Virtual Field Trips
  • Discovery Atlas interactive map
  • TIP: To view "Full Screen," right-click the video... click Zoom,,, click Full Screen
• Mini-Units
  • Thematic Focus (PDF)
• "Work smarter... not harder."
  • Tap into more than 200 lesson plans designed for Discovery Educationâ„¢ streaming videos.
  • Lesson Plan Library (PDF)