-Before_Your_Eyes

Before Your Eyes: Video and Video Streaming in Instruction
toc 8:00-11:45 am Dates: 7/21, 7/22, 7/23, 7/24 1 Credit 15 Hours

Most likely you have used United Streaming, Discovery Education’s online video library, or possibly even PowerMedia Plus, with your students at one time or another. Are you familiar with Channel 13's Vital program? TeacherTube? Brain Pop? This class will provide an overview of video and video streaming resources we have available together with instructional uses.

Discovery Education United Streaming
[|http://www.unitedstreaming.com] Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards.Teachers may set up own usernames and passwords using a code available in the District Files folder in your eChalk account. See a librarian for assistance. Enter your School’s Passcode and create your own username and password. (Your own username and password gives you direct access from any computer at anytime.) TURTLE HOOK JHS Passcode:E096-4988 Vital (grades 3-6), [|http://vital.thirteen.org]

http://students.discoveryeducation.com/genericStudentIndex.cfm?cdPasscode=T4B18-4EF2

PowerMedia Plus
 [|http://www.powermediaplus.com] Set up your own passwords using these codes: student **BKuA9SWZQu** teacher: see your librarian ALL media types: more than 3,200 videos, 21,000+ core concept clips, 6,000 curriculum-oriented audio files, 5,000 print resources, and an unsurpassed collection of 25,000 photographs, illustrations, and clip art images, as well as a databank of 15,000 quiz questions and 1,000 pre-made quizzes!

TeacherTube
http://www.teachertube.com/index.php After beta testing for almost two months, TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

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Brain Pop
http://www.brainpop.com/ Username**: uniondalehs** Password: **uniondalehs** **BrainPOP** produces educational animated movies for grades K-12 to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible and entertaining to both children and adults.

We also have BrainPop in espanol. Go to http://es.brainpop.com/ Username**: uniondalehs** Password: **uniondalehs**

AtomicLearning
[|**http://www.atomiclearning.com/**] Username: **uniondale **Password: **schools** **Atomic Learning** provides software training using a unique, just-in-time approach. Their library of thousands of short tutorials on dozens of applications are focused on answering the common questions teachers, students and anyone else may have when learning software. Also available is Spanish.

MovieMaker
Tutorial:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/create/default.mspx Windows Movie Maker is a fun and easy to use video editing program that allows you to make home movies, photo albums and business presentations. It is also widely used in schools as a tool for class projects and allows students and teachers to create wonderful graduation presentations of all the goings-on that took place in the school year.

Microsoft Office Tutorials
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/default.aspx Free self-paced training courses.

Essential Resources for Teachers http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/school/FX102781621033.aspx