SAFARI Montage Training

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• SAFARI Montage Training
• Volusia County Public Schools
• September 8 - 12, 2008

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Crystal H. Patterson Professional Development
Specialist SAFARI MONTAGE
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GREATEST CHALLENGE

• Engage and motivate students
• Differentiation
• Time

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SAFARI MONTAGEVideo On Demand

• Improve communication, collaboration, and
  learning
• Achieve goals
• Maximize results
• Maximize instructional time
• Cost Effective

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SAFARI Montage System

• No longer need to show full-length video or
  even long passages

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SAFARI Montage System

• No longer need to show full-length video or
  even long passages
• Metadata enables exact searches and easily
  identifiable content

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SAFARI Montage System

• No longer need to show full-length video or
  even long passages
• Metadata enables exact searches and easily
  identifiable content
• It is easy to
• Compare and contrast content
• Highlight content points and perspectives
• Customize content for instructional needs and
  student learning
• preference

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Value of the Content on SAFARI Montage

• Supports the curriculum- selected for SAFARI
  Montage by educators
• Aligned to standards by educators
• Can make abstract content concrete
• Can inspire creativity
• Can reinforce critical review through different
  approaches, interpretations and
• perspectives

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• SAFARI Montage Content

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SAFARI Montage Video On Demand Digital Rights
Management System
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SAFARI Montage Video On Demand Digital Rights
Management System

• Volusia County Public Schools
• SAFARI Montage WAN Management
• K-8 Core Content Package
• 9-12 Core Content Package
• Additional Content
• Creation Station
• (not available at this time details
  forthcoming)
• SAFARI Montage Live!
• (not available at this time details
  forthcoming)

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PLAYLISTS

• A Playlist is simply a list of media titles or
  segments that have a related curriculum theme or
  objective.
• Playlists may contain media titles, specific
  chapters within media titles, key concepts within
  chapters, images, and flipcharts as well as
  personal bookmarked segments and notes.
• You can provide descriptive information about
  your playlist to help you recall why you created
  it.

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Playlists

• Types of Playlists
• Idea Playlist
• Grab lots of content on a single idea or gather
  content for a future project
• Lesson Playlist
• Detailed multimedia lesson plan to directly
  support instructional elements of a given lesson.
  
• Resource playlist
• Support materials for a lesson or
• unit to extend or enhance
• content

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Playlists

• Types of Playlists
• Differentiated instruction Playlists
• Learning Styles
• Student Interest
• Student Readiness
• Introductory Playlist
• Introduce a unit, spark interest in a topic
• Review
• Reinforce concepts previously taught,
• reteach appealing to different learning
• preferences

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Playlists

• Types of Playlists
• Remediation
• Provide additional support for students who have
  not mastered content (ELL students)
• Independent Student Work
• Grab primary source material for students to
  analyze compare and contrast various
  perspectives of the same event
• Resources for Substitute
• Provide resources for continuity of instruction
  in your absence

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Permanent Links

• List of links to the chapters and key concepts
  within a particular media title, or link to the
  title itself
• Links are short and portable
• Links will not change when your SAFARI Montage
  system or content packages are updated.