Beginningto use

United Streaming Videos

Kathy Davis

EdTe 281

United StreamingTechnology in Education

• Your school site has purchased the rights to videos from Discovery Education

• Start accessing these files and building your own lessons using this incredible technology

• Always click: to skip to a specific topic or click anywhere else to go through this presentation one slide at a time

United Streaming TopicsSee each by clicking through each of the

PowerPoint slides one at a time

• Logging in for the first time

• Logging in to search for a video

• How to preview or save video

• How to incorporate into PowerPoints

• How to incorporate into Google Earth

• How to begin making movies

Access to theUnited Streaming Website

• Your school id is: xxx-4444

• To get your personal login information, you must fill out all of the blanks that have an asterisk

• Once you have your username and password you can get started at:

www.unitedstreaming.com

• Login using your username and password

• You will then open the Homepage

United Streaming HomepageYou can customize and make your own Homepage by clicking on

Preferences

The Teacher Center provides a number of teaching tools. Use Professional Development to fully learn each section.

Professional Development is updated often with examples and techniques for you to use United Streaming. Try it on your own!!

Searching for content is easy. Use the search box, or narrow your search by subject, grade, or state standard.

The middle area displays content that United Streaminghas chosen to share. This can give you quick ideas for lessons

Narrow your searchBy specific choices onthe homepage searchsection, one can filtercontent that only alignsto your state standards

or your subject

or your grade level

Or even more specific filters

Click Play to Preview or Right Click to Download

a video from your search results

If you don't want to previewor download the entire video,you can click theVIDEO SEGMENTtab. You may notice thatCITATIONS and RELATEDMATERIALS (blackline masters)are also available.

Download a video if you wantto watch more than a few minutesof it. Previewing is not intendedfor watching more than a few minutes.It uses streaming video andcan be jerky or slow.

Be careful where you save your file! Don't let your computer decide...

Where to save your video file• You may want to start a separate folder for videos

• If you plan on incorporating the video into a PowerPoint, you MUST have a copy of the video file in the same folder as your PowerPoint Presentation!

• Your school computer

• Your home computer

• Your flash drive

• The District Server

• Or a mystery, if you let your computer decide!

• File structure is by personal preference

• Remember where you saved it!

• Web-based tutorial on files and folders:

Integrating Videos into PowerPoint Presentations

Add excitement to your presentations...physics via roller coasters!

• Download your chosen video segment, saving it into the same folder location of your presentation

• Either "Insert, Movie, From File..." or simply drag the movie file icon into the slide which will show your movie

• When prompted, choose whether to have the movie start automatically, or upon your click

Integrating Videos into PowerPoint

Integrating Videos intoPowerPoint

Insert

Movies and Sound

Movie from file

Linking from Google Earth•View United Streaming videos from Google Earth locations•Videos are inserted inside placemarks much like images are inserted•Stream the section of the video you want to put into Google Earth•Right click on it while it is playing and go to properties.•Copy the location web address and paste it into your placemark•When you click on the placemark you are able to see the video link•Click the link and the video will stream in Windows Media Player

PlacemarkDescription

Making Movies using United Streaming Video Clips

• Run an advanced search for video clips that are editable

• Closed captioning is also available

Use in Windows Movie MakerDownload and import into the program:

Windows

Movie

Maker

Topic Indexclick to see a specific topic

• Preview or download a video

• Save a video for use

• Folders & Files tutorial on the Web

• Narrow your search criteria

• Integrate video into PowerPoint

• Link to videos in Google Earth

• Use in making movies

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