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United Streaming
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United Streaming

• The largest and most current K-12 digital
  video/video clip library available today
• The only standards-based video-on-demand
  application shown to increase student achievement
  
• Practical teacher and student learning resources
• Unparalleled options for customization and local
  control
• New content and features continuously added
  throughout the year

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Videos for all Areas

• Core subjects
• Connections
• Foreign Language
• Counseling
• Professional Development

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Videos Variety of Producers

• Discovery Channel
• Animal Planet
• Scholastic
• NASA
• Library of Congress
• Math Mastery
• National Archives
• And many more.

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Other Features

• Student Center
• Teacher Center Assignment BuilderQuiz Builder
• Writing Prompt Builder
• Teachers can access from home

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History

• Articles on LA County School System
• Georgia Public Broadcasting
• Approximate cost - 1,000.00 per school
• Trainings - 2,500.00 per day
• Discovery Educator Network Event at GPB
• Shared information with Trudy Sowar, Yvette Hill,
  and Chris Ragsdale to include a student project
  using MovieMaker and unitedstreaming

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Rollout

• Step 1 Local Hosting of Videos
• 1 TB of Server space allocated - Videos loaded on
  a file server on our network teachers can
  stream videos anytime of the day!(No cost to
  PC, covered by GPB Contract)

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Roll-out

• Step 2
• Presentation of unitedstreaming to Lead Teachers
• Step 3
• County-wide training Discovery Trainer(March
  2006 August 2006)
• Step 4
• School-based Trainings as requested

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Training Model
Training Model
Online Training Webinars
School Workshops
District Training
Common Folder
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Timing is everything.

• Projectors Unitedstreaming
• Revolutionary and the impactit makes is
  dynamic
• Learning becomes multi-dimensional by using the
  videos and helps students develop critical
  thinking skills.
• Louise DeSantis DMS Teacher

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Discovery Atlas - China
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Discovery Educator Network

• DEN website resources lesson plans
• Events
• STAR DEN Member free access to resources (i.e.
  PBS videos for 2007-2008)Goal for teachers to
  apply and join the DEN

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This Summer

• NECC 2007 Atlanta, Georgia
• Unitedstreaming From Superintendent to Student

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Student Project

• Mr. Jeff Pittman Teacher
• Shannon Mitchell - Student

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