50 Ways to Use Discovery Streaming

50 Ways to Use Discovery Streaming Patti Duncan DEN Virtual Conference October 25, 2008

Thematic Focus

In the “Teacher Center” choose “More Tools”

Choose “Thematic Focus”

Discussion Guide Media Activities

Lesson Plans for Different Grades Resources

Past themes are archived

Discovery Atlas

Atlas Map Videos Related Materials Launch Atlas

Discovery Calendar

“ Today in History” Items for many different subjects… video clips attached

"Finish The Story" Choose 4 images at random or along a selected theme…

First student looks at slide #1 and “starts the story” Create a slide show with one image per slide, add a text box next to image

4 th student finishes the story based on the last image Next student adds to the story at slide #2 … third student writes based on slide #3

Karaoke Search for songs by topic or grade level

Download a song and have students make a slide show of the lyrics… then have another team sing along with their song

"Speech Recognition" Students search DES for famous person

Choose “Speech” from the options to further sort the results

Choose a speech they want to report about

Choose “ speech transcript ”

Students write a “News Report” about the speech, including quotes or “sound bites” (from video clip) and record a podcast of the news report

Voicethread

Voicethread allows you to piece together video clips (like the ones that you get from DES), still pics, and voices into one project

Glogster

American Sign Language Students download a video clip with closed captioning Students film themselves doing sign language to video

Cover it Live Students can watch a video clip in different classrooms and live blog about it…

Collaborating teachers create a blog page for the students Teachers choose a video and download it in their classrooms

“ Lead” teacher sets up a Cover it Live session and embeds it into the blog At an agreed upon time… each teacher starts the video in their classroom… students log in to the CIL session on the blog

Remote Learning Use the “Assignment Builder” to create an assignment that can be done ANYWHERE

Use for:
Substitute lessons
Homebound students
To share with other educators
Students going on vacation!
Email assignment link, post it on district calendar, or post it on your wiki or blog…

Students can access assignment and work on it from home, or school

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