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United Streaming: Enhancing Learning Through Digital Video Resources

Explore United Streaming, a digital video-based learning resource from Discovery Education. Access over 50,000 content-specific segments, 5,000 full-length videos, and 20,000+ images. Learn how to access, use, and embed video segments for educational purposes. Subscribe for practical resources and professional development. Utilize the Teacher Center Calendar and Lesson Plan Library for enriched teaching strategies.

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United Streaming: Enhancing Learning Through Digital Video Resources

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  1. Madison County Summer Workshop Kathy Landman Lynn Fanning Elementary (klandman@madison.k12.al.us) Revised 8/14/07 kml

  2. What is United Streaming? • Digital video-based learning resource from Discovery Education. • On-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full-length videos and over 20,000 images. • Used in more than half of the schools in the United States reaching more than 30 million students. • Five year contract: 2005 – 2010.

  3. United Streaming Subscriptions Provide: • Largest and most current K-12 digital video/video segment library available today. • Only standards-based video-on-demand application shown to increase student achievement. • Practical and easy-to-use learning resources for students and educators. • Access to the highest quality producers – including Discover School, United Learning, Scholastic, Standard Deviants, and Weston Woods. • State-of-the-Art Professional Development sessions for online and onsite support.

  4. How Do I Access It? What Do I Need? • www.unitedstreaming.com • United Streaming Representative at your school. -Set up Account for new users -Retrieve login and password from account previously setup in your name. -Free 30 day trial through website, OR login: csvteacher, password: csvteacher (temporary)

  5. Update!!! • Go to: http://www.aptv.org to login to United Streaming. APT is monitoring the usage of United Streaming and it is important that they see we are using the site. • Click on Register Now to use APTPlus at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions. • You’ll use your same username and password for United Streaming.

  6. Teacher Center

  7. Calendar

  8. Lesson Plan Library • More than 200 lesson plans designed for unitedstreaming videos.

  9. Professional Development

  10. Embedding Video Segments • Locate the video segment you want • Save it (be sure you know where it’s going when you save it. You’ll need to retrieve it. Also rename it if you need to.) • Set up your slide in PPT, click on Insert, Movies and Sounds, Movies from File. Navigate to your video clip, double click to insert it and save your slide.

  11. Hyperlink • Download Video Segment to a designated folder. (Again, be sure you know where it’s going!) • It is recommended that you save your revised Word document or Powerpoint in the same folder. • Highlight the text or select the image on the page that you wish to use for the hyperlink • Go to “Insert” “Hyperlink” • Click to select the video file that you wish to link. • Click OK when finished.

  12. Users Guide • Go to Professional Development • Click on Trainer’s Toolkit • Download and print User’s Guide (31 pages.)

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