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Matt’s Media Tips 11-19 ‘Tis The Season to Share and be Thankful As I think about and reflect about things that I am thankful for within Discovery Education, I have to say that the ability to share and support others with the My Content, My School, My District, Quicklists, and MediaShare tools have to be at the top of that list. What’s all that content stuff about? For those of you who harken’ back to the days of unitedstreaming, you may remember this thing called “playlists.” That feature has changed quite a bit over the years and the new added functionality is guaranteed to make you logging in for a second helping of the good stuff (sorry for the pun - I have Thanksgiving dinner on the mind). Over the next couple of pages I’m going to outline a few things that you might not have known about these relatively new features and functionalities. Now I covered a lot of the My Content how-to’s back on April 2, 2012. So I’m not going to repeat those steps (you can click on that date’s link to get an extensive walk-through). But I do want to point out that the location of the My Content button looks a smidgen different today see picture above. To add something to your content find and click on the little blue down arrow (next to the blue + symbol) next to your chosen asset. Then select the My Content link. The QuickList We’re going to skip along now to the brand new QuickList feature and functionality. This is pretty cool.
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Pick an asset, any asset, and you’ll find the QuickList count and play button located in the lower lefthand corner of your screen. The QuickList gives you the ability to find anything and everything and quickly book mark it for viewing later. You can also assign your bookmarks to an individual student, entire class, or even incorporate this list into a Writing Prompt, Assignment, or Quiz! See I told you this feature is pretty cool.
Adding things to your QuickList is easy. Simply find the blue + symbol that is associated with your full video, segment, song, image, sound effect, etc and click on it. This will automatically add your asset to your QuickList queue.
Click on this blue + symbol to add the full video to your QuickList.
Once you’ve selected content and beefed up your QuickList you can choose to dish it all out or portion it out bit by bit - whatever suits your appetite (I guess I’m still thinking of that turkey). After you click on the play symbol you will see all of the things that you’ve bookmarked. Then it is just a simple matter of clicking on the forward or backwards arrows to shuffle through your stuff. To share your bookmarked content to a student, class, or assignment scroll over to the bottom right-hand corner of your screen and click on the List Options up arrow. This will pull up your QuickList menu. When you’re done viewing this menu simply click on the List Options down arrow.
Click on this blue + symbol to add any of these segments to your QuickList.
Ok Matt, I’m with you on the QuickList - but what’s the difference between that feature and the My Content feature? Well, my friend, I am so glad that you have asked. Think of the My Content area as your way of organizing your bookmarks. Remember that you can create folders of content within the My Content area. This includes anything that you’ve created like quizzes, prompts, and assignments. You can also share your content with your school and district. I’ve seen districts map their curriculum to Discovery Education assets in their District Content folders. I’ve also seen Department Heads create and share content using the School Content folder. And if you have MediaShare turned on, you can upload your own work (lesson plans, presentations, rubrics, videos, etc) and either add it to your own My Content or share it across your school or district. To see how to do that check out this edition of Matt’s Tips and Tricks. Here’s a quick tip. All DEN Stars have access to MediaShare. This means that you can add their work to your My Content, School Content and District Content folders! Check out the Narrow My Results column on the left-hand side of your screen. If there are DEN Assets associated with your search you will see a blue By Source section. Check the DEN Assets box to see and/or add their great work! How am I doing? I would love to know your thoughts. Use this link to tell me!
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This is one of the rare times when I’m going to highlight something that is not a free mobile app. However, sling Note is well worth its $2.99 price tag. This tool allows you to truly maximize your browsing experience on your iPad.
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From their site: On the left panel you have a web browser and a calculator while on the right panel you have a notepad and another web browser. • Cut web clips and drop them into notepad. • Drag web link into notepad and vice versa. • Drag calculation result into notepad and vice versa. • Annotate web clips, photos and text with pen, highlighter and tooltips. • Drop text boxes and tooltips with movable pointer. • Draw sketches and diagrams with automatic curve smoothing. • Use three finger swipe gesture to switch between application easily. • Email notepad page to yourself and other people • Export notepad page as a PDF Import PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, Keys, Pages, Numbers and RTF files • Translate website with one click • Import photo from your library
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11/19
7pm 8pm
DE Science Middle School 101: Follow your webinar guide through the subcategories to discover inquiry problems, conceptual explorations, and assessments. Learn how to navigate the sections to interact, watch, and read, using virtual labs, videos, and articles. The webinar also shows you how to use assignment builders and assessments to guide and measure your students? understanding and mastery.
11/19
7pm 8pm
Using Notebooks and Journals with the Discovery Education Science Techbook: In this session we will highlight strategies for the use of notebooks and journals in a media rich classroom. How do students collect information as they explore concepts? What are the best methods for students to gather "notes" from videos, reading passages, explorations and virtual labs? What is the difference between notebook and journal entries? All of these questions and more will be addressed in this information packed hour.
11/20
1pm 2pm
Myth Busted: DE is Only for Teachers: Special Student Webinar! Discovery Education is for students, too. Gather your class and join us as we launch into Discovery Education for students. We’ll check out how easy it is to research that report due on Monday, download a video to help with tomorrow’s homework and explore all kinds of cool stuff your students can access through Discovery Education.
11/20
7pm 8pm
Building Your Lesson with the Discovery Education Science Techbook: Join the Discovery Education Science Techbook team as we build a media-infused science lesson presentation that you can use in your classroom. Each month we will demonstrate how to create a truly engaging lesson presentation using digital resources and PowerPoint/ Keynote
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Sneak peek at the back to school enhancements. Roadshow app.
6/11/2012
Fun things to do over the summer with technology and media. Mustacheme app is featured.
5/21/2012
The ins and outs of Digital Storytelling. Digital Storytelling Web 2.0 presentation and apps
5/14/2012
Who Knew We Had News? Find an additional set of free Discovery News videos, the Video Yearbook, video almanac, and great webinar information. Roadshow App for playing back videos on-demand is reviewed.
5/7/2012
4/30/2012
4/23/2012
My Five Favorite Summer Resources. We explore five free interactive sites that parents, students, and teachers can use over the summer. We’ll also explore a free translation app for mobile devices. Getting Your Game On. Finding great games, simulations and more within Discovery Education. Back-toSchool Sneak Peek Webinars announced. Futaba Classroom Games for Kids iPad app explored. Getting the Point with PowerPoint and Keynote. Learn how to trim audio & video in PPT and save both PPT & Keynote presentations as images to embed in Web 2.0 sites. 2 Screens and Joinme mobile presentation apps explored.
4/16/2012
It’s all about the Theme. We’ll explore several different ways to find unique thematic content. Three most voted upon stories revealed. Studyblue mobile flashcard app highlighted
4/9/2012
Scratch and Pop. Six-Word Story finalists revealed. Links between Discovery Education and
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3/26/2012
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3/12/2012
2/27/2012
Scratch.mit.edu, Popplet.com and EduTechr mobile app explored.
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Mi Content es Su Content. Bookmarking and sharing your Discovery Education content across your school and district, two great contests, and two text-to-sign mobile apps
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Building out the New Year Five of my favorite things you can do with the Discovery Education Builders, Rover App for DE Students
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Special Holiday Edition 13 Tips from Educators around the US and Canada, Videolicious App
12/12/2011
50 Ways to Use Discovery Education Tips and tricks galore iSwifter - Flash for iPads
11/28/2011
What I am Thankful for Building out your PLN Wordspree and Math Acorn Apps
11/14/2011
Things I Stole From the Community DEN Tips, Four really cool tips you can do with Google. TED and Animoto apps
11/7/2011
First Six Weeks Aggregated
11/4/2011
Creating an “iCenter" How to create an ePub using DE videos. Spirit of Innovation Challenge
10/24/2011
Spooky Edition Digital Storytelling, Web 2.0 Piqua City Community Night, Crazy Pumpkin and Halloween Card Creator Apps
10/17/2011
Stick it to IT Collaborative Note Taking Site Educator Spotlight - Jennifer Everett, ToonTastic and PuppetPals Apps
10/3/2011
Opening Up Closed-Captions Closed-Captions for Macs and PCs, 10 FAQs Customer Service Receives
9/26/2011
Common Core, Web 2.0 and DE Three cool sites that integrate nicely with Discovery Education. Administrator Spotlight - Molly Hay!
9/13/2011
Can you Hear what I’m Writing? Embedding an eReader into your Writing Prompts, Getting to know Discovery Education SCIENCE
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2/13/2012
Special Valentines Issue - Things I love about Discovery Education. Five Minute Preps, Images,Coaches Eye App
2/6/2012
What did you say? Closed Captioning on an iPad? Getting Closed Captions to play on your iPad, GreenScreens on iPhone/iPad with GreenScreen FX app
1/30/2012
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Let’s Give Them Something To Sing About Differentiated Instruction Using Songs, First Student Media Contest of the Year, ShowMe and Educreations whiteboard apps Meet the Faces of Discovery Education Get up close and personal with the Discovery Education on-air talent, special student webinar series, Story Kit app