United Streaming Meets Google Earth

Best Practices Using United Streaming

United Streaming
United Streaming
KQED (Public Broadcasting of Northern California):
Using Video Effectively
Using Video with English Language Learners
Learning Point
Learning Point
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.

Using United Streaming in 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
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.
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.

Using United Streaming with Podcasting, Audacity,
Movie Maker, and PhotoStory 3

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

To Download Audacity: download Audacity AND the Lame MP3 encoder (You need Lame MP3 encoder to export MP3s from Audacity. You only need to link to it once)
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/

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

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.

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.

Using United Streaming with Pinnacle

Edited on: 07/29/2007 by Linda Foote
Instructional Curriculum Specialists
Poway Unified School District
lfoote@powayusd.com;
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