50 Ways to Integrate
Discovery Education streaming
Brad Fountain
Discovery Educator Network
Professional Development > Trainer’s Toolkit > Integration Ideas
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Multimedia Presentations:
Hyperlink, Embed and Really Embed
PowerPoint and Multi-Media Presentations
A few key terms
Hyperlinking = linking to a website, video, document or
slide that is different or outside of your current
presentation
Advantage – fast forward/rewind control
Disadvantage – opens a different window, you leave your
presentation
Embedding = placing a document, video, sound, image,
etc within the framework of your slide
Advantage – looks pretty, you stay within your presentation
Disadvantage – lose ability to fast forward and rewind
Instructions for Hyperlinking and Embedding
• Hyperlinking to a Video
• Embedding a Video
• Really Embedding a Video
• Images + Songs
Steps for Hyperlinking
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Log into Discovery Education streaming
Download a video, segment, image, song, etc.
Type some text
Highlight the text “Some Text”
Go to Insert (located in your tool bar)
Go to bottom and select Hyperlink
Find the file that you downloaded and select it
(note it can be within the same Power Point!)
Steps for Embedding
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Go up to Insert
Go to Movies and Sounds
Select Movie from File
Navigate to the file that you downloaded
Example of Video + Power Point
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Working with three of your
classmates, draw a map of your
school – without leaving your
classroom!
During your exploration of your
school and its grounds, draw at
least 10 items/areas that you
find along your route
When you get back draw a time
line of your adventure- make
sure that you include significant
events that you encountered
along the way
Now for something really cool Really Embedding
– PC ONLY
1. Go to your tool bar and click on the word “View”
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
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
Almost there…
6. Click inside the blank box next to the box titled (Custom) and then click on
the three little dots
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
Voila!
You have now embedded a video with controls like
fast forward, rewind, pause, etc – play your PPT
to see the video
Discovery Education streaming Audio – Song +
Power Point
DE Streaming has close to
400 elementary school
songs on the site. To find
them change the Within
Drop Down box to Songs
and click on the “Go” button
Download the song (rightclick, “save target as” on PC
or ctl + click on Mac) and
insert it into your
Powerpoint
Then add in DE streaming
Images or create your own
and add!
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Journaling
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Reading Support
(Close Captioning)
Why use Close Captioning in the classroom?
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To help students who are hearing impaired
To help ELL students
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
Log into Discovery Education streaming.com and
click on the Advanced Search link
Scroll down and click in the box next to “Include
only Closed Captioned Titles”
Downloading a Closed Captioned Movie
• First right-click on the blue download icon,
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
CC
Closed Captioning Trick
• Font Size
– Open the CC file in a text
editing program 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
10 pt
CC
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Today is Your Birthday
(Calendar)
Located in the Teacher Center
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Build Interest with
Video Segments
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Graphic Organizers
www.mindomo.com
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Encyclopedia
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Ongoing Assessment
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Digital Storytelling
The Two Minute Digital Story
http://youngscientist.discoveryeducation.com
Make a short video about one of the following…
• Newton’s Laws of Motion
• Acceleration
• The first A in NASA: Aeronautics
• Centrifugal and Centripetal Force
• Scope and Scale
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Green Screen
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Learning Stations
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Professional Development
http://community.discoveryeducation.com/about/webinar_archives
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Virtual Field Trips
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Film Festival
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Mini-Units
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Mega VCR
Mega VCR
• Media on your Video iPod
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Videos
PowerPoints
Music
Photos
Animations
• DE streaming Videos
– Download a video or
segment
– Make sure that you have
QuickTime selected in your
media settings
– Open iTunes and import
your video (File > Import >
Find your video)
– Right click on the video and
select “Convert Selection
for iPod”
– Copy the video to your
iPod
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Interactive Map
Ok, one
other
idea
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