Presentation for DEN VC October 2009

1. 50 Ways to Use Discovery Streaming Patti Duncan DEN Virtual Conference October 25, 2008

2. Thematic Focus

3. In the “Teacher Center” choose “More Tools”

4. Choose “Thematic Focus”

5. Discussion Guide Media Activities

6. Lesson Plans for Different Grades Resources

7. Past themes are archived

8. Discovery Atlas

9. Atlas Map Videos Related Materials Launch Atlas

10. Discovery Calendar

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Karaoke Search for songs by topic or grade level

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

17. "Speech Recognition" Students search DES for famous person

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

19. Choose a speech they want to report about

20. Choose “ speech transcript ”

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

22. Voicethread

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

24. Glogster

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

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

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

28. “ 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

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

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

32. To…. And BEYOND….

33. DEN LC Institute Projects DEN National Institute Projects Matt Monjan’s “50 Ways” Preso