Madison County Summer Workshop

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• Madison County Summer Workshop
• Kathy Landman
• Lynn Fanning Elementary
• (klandman_at_madison.k12.al.us)
• Revised 8/14/07 kml

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What is United Streaming?

• Digital video-based learning resource from
  Discovery Education.
• On-demand access to 50,000 content-specific
  segments from 5,000 full-length videos and over
  20,000 images.
• Used in more than half of the schools in the
  United States reaching more than 30 million
  students.
• Five year contract 2005 2010.

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United Streaming Subscriptions Provide

• Largest and most current K-12 digital video/video
  segment library available today.
• Only standards-based video-on-demand application
  shown to increase student achievement.
• Practical and easy-to-use learning resources for
  students and educators.
• Access to the highest quality producers
  including Discover School, United Learning,
  Scholastic, Standard Deviants, and Weston Woods.
• State-of-the-Art Professional Development
  sessions for online and onsite support.

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How Do I Access It? What Do I Need?

• www.unitedstreaming.com
• United Streaming Representative at your school.
• -Set up Account for new users
• -Retrieve login and password from account
  previously setup in your name.
• -Free 30 day trial through website, OR
• login csvteacher, password csvteacher
  (temporary)

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Update!!!

• Go to http//www.aptv.org to login to United
  Streaming. APT is monitoring the usage of United
  Streaming and it is important that they see we
  are using the site.
• Click on Register Now to use APTPlus at the
  bottom of the page and follow the instructions.
• Youll use your same username and password for
  United Streaming.

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Teacher Center
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Calendar
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Lesson Plan Library

• More than 200 lesson plans designed for
  unitedstreaming videos.

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Professional Development
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Embedding Video Segments

• Locate the video segment you want
• Save it (be sure you know where its going when
  you save it. Youll need to retrieve it. Also
  rename it if you need to.)
• Set up your slide in PPT, click on Insert,
• Movies and Sounds, Movies from File. Navigate
  to your video clip, double click to insert it and
  save your slide.

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Hyperlink

• Download Video Segment to a designated folder.
  (Again, be sure you know where its going!)
• It is recommended that you save your revised Word
  document or Powerpoint in the same folder.
• Highlight the text or select the image on the
  page that you wish to use for the hyperlink
• Go to Insert Hyperlink
• Click to select the video file that you wish to
  link.
• Click OK when finished.

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Users Guide

• Go to Professional Development
• Click on Trainers Toolkit
• Download and print Users Guide (31 pages.)