Tips | Feb 7 | Feb 28 | Mar 13 | Apr 3 | Apr 17 | May 1st

Facilitators: Linda Foote, Vickie Creed, Cate Lund
Westwood Elementary School Jan-June 2008

• Copy of the TLC Proposal 2007-2008
• Documentation Required for this Course
• Reflection sheet

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Exploring all the Features of  United Streaming

Day One Agenda
 

• KQED (Public Broadcasting of Northern California):
  Using Video Effectively
  Using Video with English Language Learners
   
• United Streaming
  United Streaming
  United Streaming Scavenger Hunt
   
• Downloading to Your School's Network Manager (Server) Print out the screen shot directions or the watch the video to learn the correct steps to download and play clips
  Printable Instructions     Video Instructions
   
• Closed Captions
  Instructions to download and play videos with closed captions
   
• Learning Point
  Learning Point
   
• Instructions to turn off Pop-Up Blockers before creating assignments or quizzes 
   
• Instructions to add Action Buttons to your PowerPoint slideshow
   
• The CADEN site offers DEN members the perfect arena to share strategies for integrating United Streaming, Google Earth, PhotoStory and other programs to provide powerful instruction. Join the DEN and share best practices with educators around the world.
   

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Using United Streaming in PowerPoint, PowerPoint Advanced Tips, and Game Show Templates
 

Day Two Agenda PowerPoint PowerPoint PDF PowerPoint Storyboard Planning Sheets Creating Hyperlinks in PowerPoint Setting Specialized Backgrounds in PowerPoint Creating a PhotoAlbum in PowerPoint Instructions for Creating a PowerPoint Jeopardy Game PowerPoint Jeopardy Template PowerPoint: Judicial Branch Jeopardy Game Elaine Fitzgerald's links to Game Show Templates for PowerPoint Mark Damon's Templates for Jeopardy, The Weakest Link, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Guess the Covered Word, Wheel of Fortune, and more.                                                  top

March 13, 2008

Photostory3 | MovieMaker | Pinnacle Studio | Edupodcasting | Audacity 
Sound Files | CA DEN Collaboration

Using United Streaming with 
PhotoStory3 and Audacity
(bonus work: Podcasting)

PhotoStory 3

• Free PhotoStory3 Download
  (tutorial)
   

• Storyboarding Planning Sheet for Students
   

• Mark Coffman's WindowsPhotoStory.com: http://www.windowsphotostory.com/Guides/
  Beginner/importing-and-arranging-pictures.aspx
   

• David Jakes from Downer's Grove Illinois has a great intro to PhotoStory3 with screenshots: http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.pdf
   

• Photos for educators can be found in United Streaming and at this link: Free Music, Photos, and Video Clips

Audacity Download and Tutorials

• Audacity is a great, free, open source software for recording and editing sounds to add to your videos or slide shows. You can download it for free at this link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• You MUST ALSO download the Lame MP3 encoder  (You need Lame MP3 encoder to export MP3s from Audacity. You only need to link to it once)

Instructions for downloading Audacity and Lame MP3 encoder   Instructions for linking Lame MP3 encoder and Audacity the first time you export an MP3 from Audacity   Steve's link to Doug Warsham's tutorial for Audacity: http://lss.wisc.edu/~doug/audacity/   Another great tutorial for Podcasting with Audacity: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm

Edupodcasting Tutorial

• Steve Dembo's  Powerpoint: www.teach42.com/edupodcasting101 At the top of the page, click on Edupodcasting presentation 8/1/06

• The  Switchpod Podcasting site also has a great list of links for educational podcasting at: http://media.switchpod.com/users/tgreen/Podcasting_Workshop
  _Web_Resources.pdfWeb_Resources.pdf

Sound Files

• Sound Files from Hall Davidson (Hall's Site)

• A great website to build music on MACs or PCs: www.findsounds.com

• http://www.freeplaymusic.com

• http://www.archive.org/details/etree

• www.smartsound.com

• www.naturesongs.com

• enature.com/audio/audio_home.asp

• www.freemusicdir.com

• www.freeaudioclips.com/categories.php?cat=2&cat_name=Classic%2FHard%2

• www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html (free stuff in corner)

• www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html (email for permission)

California DEN Collaboration Site

• The CADEN site offers DEN members the perfect arena to share strategies for integrating United Streaming, Google Earth, PhotoStory and other programs to provide powerful instruction.

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Windows MovieMaker

• Instructional Training for MovieMaker (Thanks to our Discovery Den Leader, Jannita Demian)

• Or check out the manual from Shawnee Mission School District

Pinnacle Studio Plus

• Visit our Pinnacle Studio Training pages for additional information on how to edit United Streaming videos in Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus.  Pinnacle Training Page  (We'll have a session in the fall to teach this program. This is just an introduction.)

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Using United Streaming with Google Earth 

Day 4 Agenda

• Download Google Earth
   

• Visit the Google for Educators site for all the new Google Resources for Education including Google Earth, online docs and spreadsheets, and blogs for educators to collaborate and share best practices.
  The Infinite Thinking Machine: provides ideas to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st Century
   

• For educational resources developed specifically for Google Earth 
  
  1. Cheryl Davis presented excellent MS/HS ideas for using Google Earth at NECC in Atlanta.  Her slideshow has excellent instructions for inserting photos in your placemarks in Google Earth as well
  
  2.  Apple's Learning Interchange Website has an entire section dedicated to lesson resources using Google Earth.
  
  3.  Student Lessons in Google Earth
  
  4. The Google Earth Lessons Website
   

• Google Earth Lit Trips Join other teachers and students who have created Google Earth files for the greatest literary road trips of all time. (Download the Grapes of Wrath trip here.)
   

• Visit the Google Earth user guide to explore all the tools available in this program.
   

• Popular Science.com has created a "Google Earth tour of geographic points of environmental interest around the world." 
   

• Hall Davidson from Discovery Education has produced an excellent guide for using Google Earth with United Streaming to improve learning
   

• Great instructions from Google for making movies from tours you and your students create in Google Earth. You can post these movies or embed them in PowerPoint. Requires Google Earth Pro, Google Earth EC, or Snag-It software.
   

• Join educators around the world who are using Google Earth. You'll find great ideas, resources, and a forum to publish excellent student work.  Click on the image at the right.
   

• Visit the combined Google Earth/United Streaming site for some outstanding lesson plans and examples of how to use Google Earth in the classroom.
   

• A great Google group for educators integrating project based lessons in the classroom with Google Tools can be found at this site.  They have great links for real-world data to use with projects in Google Earth.
   

• Touring Google Earth (Hall Davidson and Linda Foote Joint PPS)

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Friday, August 3, 2007

Finalizing Work and Presenting Projects

Day 5 Agenda

TIPS From Jannita

• If a video you've embedded turns "white screen" and doesn't play, the title of the movie is too long. Rename the movie to a shorter name and it will be fine.

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Using United Streaming in Non-Linear Programs

• Timeliner

• Inspiration

• Google Earth

• Kidspiration
   

• Software to use with United Streaming will be distributed (Timeliner, Kidspiration, Inspiration, or Pinnacle)
   
• Instruction will be provided for the distributed software and participants will have time to develop an instructional resource using their new programs.
  Instruction for:

• Participants will share successes and challenges, collaborate on planning and developing projects, asking questions, and making proposals for future projects.
   

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• Share strategies or samples of how to use United Streaming to scaffold, teach, reteach, introduce vocabulary, or review critical concepts for your class
• You may load your software on the computer in the lab (and uninstall it when you're done) if you need to use Timeliner or Inspiration/Kidspiration.  Pinnacle is already on the lab machines.
• Meera Navarro, Linda Foote, and Anne Smith will be available to provide mini-lessons and offer support as you learn your new programs. We also have lesson sheets available in the Professional Support portion of United Streaming. PowerPoint reviews will be available as well!
• Use the software you received to create a lesson or provide re-teaching, reviewing, or scaffolding for students.

• Review the documentation requirements for this course (see the top of this page for a link to the document if you need a copy)

• We've also had a special request to do additional work in Google Earth so we will start with work in Google Earth and strategize how this tool can improve learning in our classrooms.

Timeliner PDF | Inspiration PDF | PowerPoint | Learning Point

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