10 Ways to Integrate Discovery Education into the Classroom

Andrea Alderman

Inserting Media into SMART

Any of the 20,000+ images, videos, sound effects or songs can be downloaded and embedded directly into a SMART notebook page

BLM and Teachers Guide

The Related Materials tab in Discovery Education streaming links to Blackline Masters and Teachers guides.

Songs that help teach

Learning Our Long Vowels (02:56) Long vowels say their names. 2005 Twin Sisters Learning Our Short Vowels (01:47) Learn about short vowel sounds. 2005 Twin Sisters Letters c and g Have Two Sounds (04:48) In words the consonants C and G are sometimes hard and sometimes soft. Q and U Are Friends (01:13) A song about words that start with QU 2005 Twin Sisters People Move (2:18) Considers the five themes of geography: location, place, regions, movement, and human environmental action. 2011 Lodge McCammon Songs.
welovelodge.blogspot.com

Word Clouds
Use one of the thousands of encyclopaedia articles or speeches to makes word clouds in Wordle or Tagxedo

Curriculum standards search

Search content linked to SK curriculum

Builder tools
Writing prompts, quizzes assignments

Thematic Foci
Browse weekly teaching topics that include video segments, lesson plans, and student activities.
Check the archive for all previous themes. Located under Streaming Canada Plus / Teacher Centre

DEN
The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating, and networking.
Become a STAR Discovery Educator for lots of perks!

PD and Webinars
Discovery hosts a ton of free and engaging webinars!
The PD section of their website also provides help and videos to help teachers make the most of Discovery Education

More ways to use DE streaming

Click here

Digital Storytelling in a Web 2.0 World

What is Digital Storytelling?

Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. - Digital Storytelling Association http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/

What Digital Storytelling is Not

Digital storytelling is not simply narrating a set of pictures. It is the process of using words and pictures to tell a story. (Mullen & Wedwick, 2008, p. 68)

Digital storytelling is not simply digitizing a picture book! (Scott Meech @smeech via Twitter)

Why Digital Storytelling?

In The Classroom - Students can demonstrate their grasp of concept
- Synthesized Brain (doing) - Retaining (watching)

- Creative outlet
- Students can use a myriad of media, photos, images, songs, video, sound to express themselves and their stories

- FSL/ ELL Instruction

- Use media to help reach foreign language students matching vocabulary and imagery

- It is engaging a format that the YouTube generation is accustomed

How to Tell a Digital Story?

As easy as 1 2 3!
1. Outline a story idea 2. Find some media

3. Pick a tool and build your story

Outline a Story Idea

Prompts can be visual:
Five-Card Flickr
Mystery Places Voicethread

Prompts can be written:

Discovery Education Writing prompt builder Discovery Education On this day

Youll never guess who showed up at my school today!

Find some media

Videos Images Sounds Songs Speeches Sound Effects

Discovery Education streaming

Finding safe source material

www.discoveryeducation.com
(search 20K+ images, sounds effects, video content k-12) compfight.com (searches Flikr for CC photos)

www.archive.org Images.google.com

Pick a tool and build your story

Photopeach.com add images and match them up
with music and even add quizzes!

Animoto.com add images and songs to create a

music video! (semi free)

Blabberize.com make any image talk! Kerpoof.com create animated video stories, pictures
and more. Includes timeline and multiple layers. Owned by Disney. Mostly Elementary audience.

Goanimate.com Cut and paste DE images and clipart,

songs and more into an animated cartoon story! (free)

Xtranormal.com pick your scene, type in your script,

add action and sound, and publish!

Storybird.com short, art-inspired stories you make to

share, read, and print.

More tools http://50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

Using your social networks to tell a story!

www.twitter.com

http://www.monsterexchange.org/

http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page

Storytelling on the Fly Improvisation

Use any video without words (live animal cams from zoos work well) with screenr.com to create a voiceover.

Can you improv? Try Pechaflickr! Enter a tag, and see how well you can make sense of 20 random flickr photos, each one on screen for 20 seconds. See advanced options to chose different number of slides or timing.

Digital Storytelling and Special Education

What is your student good at? So many of the Web 2.0 tools for storytelling can be used for students who have differing abilities (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, etc.) Great article on how a Special Education teacher adapted digital storytelling for her student`s needs
http://journals.cec.sped.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1106&context=tec plus

Digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu

http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstoryt elling

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryT ools http://couros.wikispaces.com/digitalstory telling http://voicethread.com/share/119840/

So what story will you tell?