1. Created by: Steve Crivelli 10/21/2008
Discovery Streaming
A.K.A. United Streaming: Information and Uses As An Effective Instructional Aid
Created by: Steve Crivelli 10/21/2008
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2. By the end of this P.D. session you will be able to:
Login to United Streaming
Navigate through the United Streaming main page.
Use the built in search capabilities.
Save found material to the My Content page.
Download material to your computer.
Adjust preferences.

3. What is Discovery Streaming?
Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards.

4. But What Does It Mean?
United Streaming is a large online library collection of video, audio, video and audio clips, and much more; accessible to all Howard County Employees.
Some videos include pre-made teacher guides and worksheets.
Some material aligns to state voluntary curriculum.

5. How can I access it?
Each Howard County Employee has their own account.
Logon at
Username: <Your Howard County Employee >
Password: hcpss

6. Preferences To access your preferences page:
1) Click on the My Account Link at the Upper Right Hand corner of your page.
2) Click on the My Preferences link.

7. Preferences Continued
Using Macintosh computers, you should have Quicktime selected as your media player.
You can choose to have the player “embedded” - play in the internet window or “stand-alone” - open and play in its own window.
Click save when you are done.

8. How to Search… By format By grade By subject
(Video, video segment, audio segment, clip art, events, lessons, songs, speech.)
By grade
(K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
By subject
Careers/Work Place Skills, English/Language Arts, Health, Language Instruction, Mathematics, Research/Study Skills, Science, Social Studies,Teaching Practices, Visual and Performing Arts
By State curriculum standards
Advanced Search: Which allows you to search by
Keyword, Media Type, Subject, Grade Level, Publisher, Copyright

9. What your page should like.
My Content
Advanced Search S E A
R C H

10. Advanced Search
Limit your search if you would like to narrow the number of results.
Let’s Try IT!

11. Search Example Try to find a video clip for: Results
Media Type: Video Segment
Subject: Math
Grade: 3-5
Results
769 Results as of 10/29/2008

12. Now What Do I Do With It? **Notes:2 3 1
**Notes:
The (minutes:seconds) indicates to me that it is
a segment of a full video.

13. Saving to your computer
You can play a video/audio segment from the website however this is very slow.
You can download the material to your computer.
Hold down the ctrl key on your keyboard and click on the little disk icon.

14. Saving Continued
When the window pops up choose where you want to save the file and name it what you want. Click Save.
Open Link in New Window
Open Link in New Tab
Bookmark This Link
Save Link As…
Send Link…
Copy Link Location
Properties

15. My Content
You can access the My Content link from your main page or from the material you have found.