Teachers’ Domain Update CLEAN, June 8, 2010

About Teachers’ Domain What is Teachers’ Domain? free education portal for teachers, students, and PTV stations NSDL Pathway provides content and features teachers value PTV stations can brand and customize

Recent metrics nearly 500,000 registered users in all 50 states and 192 countries, representing over 78% of K-12 schools and 10% of US teachers, generating more than 5,730,000 monthly page views!

What teachers think teachers surveyed in April 2010: Top ways they use TD: 1.show media to the entire class 2.adapt a lesson plan 3.use discussion questions, teaching tips, or frame-focus-follow-up 4.use a student activity (self-paced lesson) Existing features they most value: 1.discussion questions, teaching tips, frame-focus-follow-up 2.ability to save resources in folders 3.standards correlations 4.background essays Their favorite new features (coming by Fall 2010): 1.full-screen video 2.find resources by standards 3.save and submit answers in self-paced lessons 4.create linked student accounts 5.Find other teachers through profiles 6.make your folders and groups available through your profile

Local branding partners Over 35 PTV stations are Teachers’ Domain partners

Resource page

Custom editions

Adding content through the TD CMS

New front-end features New front-end features: Full-screen video player Redesigned with larger, more flexible pages Browse by standards and expanded standards correlations User content upload Enhanced, searchable user profiles Linked student-teacher, and teacher-teacher accounts Ability to save your work in self-paced lessons and submit to linked accounts Group work folders

Climate-related content Climate-related content already on TD: Earth science resources and lesson plans (with DLESE) Polar sciences collection (IPY)—resources, lesson plan, and student activity Alaska Native Perspectives on Earth and Climate— resources, lesson plans, student activities Where Words Touch the Earth (NASA, Tribal Colleges)— resources, lesson plan, teacher activity Speaking Your Mind About Global Warming—student video production activity Other resources, see topic areas

Upcoming content Content in production: CPB project (1200+ assets) WGBH, ThinkTV, and Wisconsin ECB (33 media resources) Other CPB grantees (LPB, MPT, Nebraska ETV, KQED, UEN, WOSU) Environmental Public Health Impacts of climate change Advanced Technological Education Green technology careers Where Words Touch the Earth 2 Additional Native perspectives

Questions and discussion