1. Beginning to use United Streaming Videos Kathy Davis EdTe 281

2. United Streaming Technology 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

3. United Streaming Topics See 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

4. Access to the United 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 www.unitedstreaming.com Login using your username and password You will then open the Homepage

5. United Streaming Homepage You can customize and make your own Homepage by clicking on Preferences

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

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

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

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

10. Narrow your search By specific choices on the homepage search section, one can filter content that only aligns to your state standards or your subject or your grade level Or even more specific filters

11. Click Play to Preview or Right Click to Download a video from your search results If you don't want to preview or download the entire video, you can click the VIDEO SEGMENT tab. You may notice that CITATIONS and RELATED MATERIALS (blackline masters) are also available. Download a video if you want to watch more than a few minutes of it. Previewing is not intended for watching more than a few minutes. It uses streaming video and can be jerky or slow. Be careful where you save your file! Don't let your computer decide...Don't let your computer decide...

12. 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:

13. Integrating Videos into PowerPoint Presentations Add excitement to your presentations...physics via roller coasters!

14. 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

15. Insert Movies and Sound Movie from file

16. 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 Placemark Description

17. Making Movies using United Streaming Video Clips Run an advanced search for video clips that are editable Closed captioning is also available

18. Use in Windows Movie Maker Download and import into the program: Windows Movie Maker

19. Topic Index click 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 Begin slideshow again The End