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Teachers’ Domain Update

Teachers' Domain is a free education portal offering valuable content and features for teachers, students, and PTV stations. With over 500,000 users in all states and countries, it provides resources like discussion questions, teaching tips, and self-paced lessons. New features coming soon include full-screen videos and linked student accounts.

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Teachers’ Domain Update

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  1. Teachers’ Domain Update CLEAN, June 8, 2010

  2. About Teachers’ Domain • What is Teachers’ Domain? • free education portal for teachers, students, and PTV stations • NSDL Pathway • provides content and features teachers value • PTV stations can brand and customize

  3. nearly500,000 registered users in all 50 states and 192 countries, representing over 78% of K-12 schools and 10% of US teachers, generating more than 5,730,000 monthly page views! Recent metrics

  4. 1800+ teachers surveyed in April 2010: Top ways they use TD: show media to the entire class adapt a lesson plan use discussion questions, teaching tips, or frame-focus-follow-up use a student activity (self-paced lesson) Existing features they most value: discussion questions, teaching tips, frame-focus-follow-up ability to save resources in folders standards correlations background essays Their favorite new features (coming by Fall 2010): full-screen video find resources by standards save and submit answers in self-paced lessons create linked student accounts Find other teachers through profiles make your folders and groups available through your profile What teachers think

  5. Over 35 PTV stations are Teachers’ Domain partners Local branding partners

  6. Resource page

  7. Custom editions

  8. Custom editions

  9. Adding content through the TD CMS

  10. New front-end features: • Full-screen video player • Redesigned with larger, more flexible pages • Browse by standards and expanded standards correlations • User content upload • Enhanced, searchable user profiles • Linked student-teacher, and teacher-teacher accounts • Ability to save your work in self-paced lessons and submit to linked accounts • Group work folders New front-end features

  11. Climate-related content already on TD: • Earth science resources and lesson plans (with DLESE) • Polar sciences collection (IPY)—resources, lesson plan, and student activity • Alaska Native Perspectives on Earth and Climate—resources, lesson plans, student activities • Where Words Touch the Earth (NASA, Tribal Colleges)—resources, lesson plan, teacher activity • Speaking Your Mind About Global Warming—student video production activity • Other resources, see topic areas Climate-related content

  12. Content in production: CPB project (1200+ assets) • WGBH, ThinkTV, and Wisconsin ECB (33 media resources) • Other CPB grantees (LPB, MPT, Nebraska ETV, KQED, UEN, WOSU) Environmental Public Health • Impacts of climate change Advanced Technological Education • Green technology careers Where Words Touch the Earth 2 • Additional Native perspectives Upcoming content

  13. www.teachersdomain.org Questions and discussion

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