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A.K.A. United Streaming: Information and Uses As An Effective Instructional Aid

Created by: Steve Crivelli 10/21/2008

Taken from www.unitedstreaming.com

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By the end of this P.D. session you will be able to:

• Login to United Streaming• Navigate through the United

Streaming main page.• Use the built in search capabilities.• Save found material to the My

Content page.• Download material to your computer.• Adjust preferences.

What is Discovery Streaming?

• 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.

• www.unitedstreaming.com

But What Does It Mean?• United Streaming is a large online library

collection of video, audio, video and audio clips, and much more; accessible to all Howard County Employees.

• Some videos include pre-made teacher guides and worksheets.

• Some material aligns to state voluntary curriculum.

How can I access it?

• Each Howard County Employee has their own account.

• Logon at www.unitedstreaming.com• Username: <Your Howard County Employee

Email>• Password: hcpss

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Preferences

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Once you login you can access your preferences page:

1) Click on the My Account Link at the Upper Right Hand corner of your page.

2) Click on the My Preferences link.

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Using Macintosh computers, you should have Quicktime selected as your media player.

You can choose to have the player “embedded” - play in the internet window or “stand-alone” - open and play in its own window.

Click save when you are done.

What your page should like.

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My Content

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Advanced Search

How to Search…• By format

– (Video, video segment, audio segment, clip art, events, lessons, songs, speech.)

• By grade– (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)

• By subject– Careers/Work Place Skills, English/Language Arts, Health, Language

Instruction, Mathematics, Research/Study Skills, Science, Social Studies,Teaching Practices, Visual and Performing Arts

• By State curriculum standards• Advanced Search: Which allows you to search by

– Keyword, Media Type, Subject, Grade Level, Publisher, Copyright

Advanced Search

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Limit your search if you would like to narrow the number of results.

Let’s Try IT!

Search Example

• Try to find a video clip for:– Media Type: Video Segment– Subject: Math– Grade: 3-5

• Results

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Now What Do I Do With It?

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**Notes:

The (minutes:seconds) indicates to me that it is

a segment of a full video.

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Saving to your computer

• You can play a video/audio segment from the website however this is very slow.

• You can download the material to your computer.

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Open Link in New WindowOpen Link in New Tab-----------------------------------Bookmark This LinkSave Link As…Send Link…Copy Link Location-----------------------------------Properties

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When the window pops up choose where you want to save the file and name it what you want. Click Save.

My Content

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You can access the My Content link from your main page or from the material you have found.

1) Check the box next to what you want to save.

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