Discovery+Education



Grade Levels: PreK - 12

URL: @http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

What is Discovery Education?
 Discovery Education provides teachers with thousands of educational videos. You may download entire videos or short video segments. You can also search for songs, audio files, clip art, images, and more.

Instructions for Setting Up Streaming:
 If you do not have an account, get the passcode for your building from your media specialist or from Mary Frazier. You'll use the passcode only the first time you access Discovery. You'll be asked to create your profile and create your own username and password. If you forget your username and/or password contact Mary Frazier and she'll have it sent to you.


 * My DE **
 * Home: Choose personalize page (upper right hand side) **. **You now have the option to make this page contain the content that is important to YOU!
 * Teacher Center: This includes curriculum resources, such as calendar with historical events, atlas, themes, and more.
 * Professional Development : This is where you'll go to get help in learning Discovery.

This is where you'll go when you're ready to search for videos, songs, clip art, etc. You can search by grade level, subject area, and even content standards.
 * Searching **

What is the difference between **streaming** and **downloading?** Streaming is happening live over the Internet and takes up bandwidth. Use streaming to preview a video (especially during low usage hours). Download the videos you want to play for your students. These can be synced to your iPod(s) and/or added to their documents so they can watch it again and again.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Streaming vs. Downloading **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> When downloading DE videos on a Mac, make sure you select QuickTime (QT).
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> You may stream the videos as a way of previewing them. It is advised that you download the videos for classroom use rather than streaming them. Streaming during high network traffic times might tax the network and cause the video to pause and cut out. If you run into problems consider streaming videos before or after school to preview them. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Discovery videos can be converted through iTunes and synced to iPods. This works great for those students who want to watch a video over and over. There are also many songs (mostly primary) that you can add to a keynote presentation or put in iTunes so you can play them during class or put them on iPods. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> There are many more features to Discovery than just videos.

===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Integrating DE with Promethean ActivStudio** <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(these directions may need to be altered for ActivInspire) === <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Add a link, a still image, or insert a downloaded video into a Flipchart by following the simple instructions below. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Adding a Link to a Flipchart <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. In DE, select a video. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Copy the URL (link). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Show the flipchart. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4. Right-click on the flipchart page. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 5. Click Insert>Web Site Link. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 6. Paste the URL into the web site link field. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 7. Click OK. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Note: To show the video you will need to log into DE after clicking the link.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Adding Still Images to a Flipchart <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. In DE, select an image. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Resize windows so that you can see both your flipchart and the browser. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Drag and drop the image from DE to your flipchart page. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4. Click Add Objects.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Inserting a Downloaded Video in a Flipchart <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. In DE, select and download a video. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Show the flipchart. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Right click on the flipchart page. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4. Click Insert>Video File Link. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 5. Navigate to the saved video. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 6. Select your video and click Open. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 7. Check the Store in Flipchart checkbox. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 8. Click OK. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Note: When the video is downloaded you don't have to worry about logging into DE!