Bend it, Break it, Bust it Loose
Matt Monjan
Discovery Education

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Build Interest with
Video Segments

2
Listen Up

DE streaming Audio - Song
DE Streaming has
close to 466
elementary school
songs on the site.
To find them click
inside the search
box, choose
songs within the
Media box, and
click on the
“Search” button
Download and save
the song onto your
PC 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)
2 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.

And if you have DE streaming Plus…
You have a
multitude of
3 games to
choose from –
including one
on
Homophones
Let’s check it out

And if you have DE streaming Plus…
And Math
Manipulatives
4
Let’s check it out

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Get the picture?

Federal Troops at Rest
(Image library)
One of 20,866 images
5

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Multimedia Presentations

Now for something really cool
Embedding with all the bells and whistles! PC ONLY
1. Go to your tool bar and click on the word “View”
6 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
6 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
6

Almost there…
6. Click inside the blank box next to the box titled (Custom)
and then click on the three little dots
6

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
6

Voila!
You have now embedded a video with
controls like fast forward, rewind, pause, etc
6 – play your PPT to see the video

With Office 2007
1. Click on the Microsoft Tab
(upper left-hand corner of the
screen)
2. Click on PowerPoint Options
7 3. Check the box next to Show
Developer Tab in ribbon
4. Click on the word “Developer”
in your tool bar area
5. Click on the Hammer and
Arrow
6. Follow the same steps listed
before

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Today is Your Birthday

Let’s check out the Calendar
(found inside the Teacher Center)
7

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Writing Prompt Builder
Let’s check it out

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Reading Support

Why should we use
Close Captioning?
• To help students who are hearing impaired
9 • To help ELL students
• To reach multiple modalities
• 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
9

Downloading a
Closed Captioned Movie
• First right-click on the blue download icon,
9 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

Closed
Captioning Trick
Font Size
– Open the CC file in a
text editing program
9 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
30 pt
9
10 pt

CC
8

In Howard County
(for Macs)
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http://accessibilitytoolkit.hcpss.wikispaces.net/closedcaptioning

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Digital Storytelling

Student Example -
Photostory
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Bonus
Quiz Builder
Let’s check it out

Bonus

One
more
Green Screen

One
more

I
lied
Assignment Builder

Let’s check one out -
http://snipurl.com/copyrightactivity

Seriously
1 more
Atlas Interactive Map

Let’s check out the Atlas
(found inside the Teacher Center)
Seriously
1 more

Lied
Again
It is nice to share

It is nice to share
Lied
Again

PD
Professional Development

PD

DEN

Thank you!
Matt_monjan@discovery.com