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Summer Streamin’ Great Tips to Get You Ready for the New School Year

Summer Streamin’ Great Tips to Get You Ready for the New School Year Matt Monjan and Lance Rougeux, Discovery Educator Network Customize your homepage Click on Preferences > My Home Page to add things like: Today in History Featured Videos New Videos on your very own unitedstreaming

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Summer Streamin’ Great Tips to Get You Ready for the New School Year

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  1. Summer Streamin’Great Tips to Get You Ready for the New School Year Matt Monjan and Lance Rougeux,Discovery Educator Network

  2. Customize your homepage • Click on Preferences > My Home Page to add things like: • Today in History • Featured Videos • New Videos on your very own unitedstreaming home page

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  4. Explore your world with out leaving your classroom! Use the Atlas as an Activator

  5. Load Up Your iPod Mega VCR • Media on your Video iPod • Videos • PowerPoints • Music • Photos • Animations Check out Hall’s Blog to learn how!

  6. unitedstreaming 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 Mega VCR

  7. Video in PowerPoint Really Embedding Save video or video segment to your computer View > Toolbars > Control Toolbox Click on More Controls (hammer and wrench icon) Scroll down to Windows Media Player Draw a box that will become the image below Practice Embedding…Really Embedding

  8. Video in PowerPoint Really Embedding Right click on the media player > Select properties Click on the empty cell next to “Custom” Really Embedding

  9. Video in PowerPoint Really Embedding Browse for your video > Click OK In slideshow mode, you will be able to play the video embedded WITH controls like rewind, fast forward, sound, etc. Really Embedding

  10. 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

  11. CC 30 pt 10 pt

  12. CC

  13. Add material from “My Content” folder and view who has taken your assignment on line Build Something • Upgrades to “The Builders” Incorporate videos into your quizzes at the beginning of each quiz or when a student gets the question wrong Now your students can type a response to your prompt and send it to you electronically. You can even view their results on line! Now you can add bullets, spreadsheets, bold, italics and more!

  14. Share! • Go to: www.unitedstreaming.com/studentcenter • Enter the code: W3273-8FFB

  15. Plan a Back-to-School Lesson • Get to know your students with the Calendar

  16. Spend some time on the blogs • Visit the Implementation blog for great tips and tricks!

  17. Plan a Digital Story Telling Session Use video, images, and sounds to create a story, documentary, or film. Have your students tell the story from their point of view We show you how through DEN blogs like: Or unitedstreaming Professional Development links like the Trainers Toolkit and unitedstreaming In Action:

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