1. 30? Creative Ways to Use Discovery Education

2. Thanks to Discovery Education Jennifer Jensen Clear Sky El, Castle Rock Cynthia Brown Discovery Education All other creators linked herein

4. DE Content: Visual Boards Clip Art Videos Video segments Images

5. HTTP://APP.DISCOVERYEDUCATION.CO M/BUILDERS/BOARDS?ASSETGUID=D7 9EB0E5-EC85-F380-0D17- 5DB58614761B Board Builder

6. Green Screen with ★ iMovie Integration Idea: Students can download images and/or editable video segments from DE and use them for the basis of a children’s story, public service announcement, movie trailer, news broadcast, etc... JayCut is a free web- based platform.

9. Other Ideas  Have students... Invent historical scenarios and have students “slide” on screen with the historical figure. Report on a breaking news story in front of the White House. Report live from a shark tank. ★ All images are from Discovery Education are copyright friendly.

10.  To help students who are hearing impaired  To help ELL students  To reach multiple modalities  To help struggling readers  To emphasize a grammar or vocabulary lesson  To use in combination with a writing exercise  To reinforce a concept Closed Captioning

15. Photo Projects Animoto http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=animoto http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=animoto Blabberize http://blabberize.com/view?id=77900http://blabberize.com/view?id=77900

16. Comic Life

18. Finish the Story Download a series of relevant images Images can be thematic or randomly connected to the unit of study Develop a digital story in PowerPoint, iMovie, PhotoStory 3, Windows Movie Maker or other applicable web 2.0 tool with one image per slide Create a title for the story and add relevant music Do not add text or voice-over narration to the story Have cooperative learning groups view the digital stories; developing a storyline that considers the title, and connects the images to class content One student starts the story, another adds to the story at the next image, a third adds to the story at the next image, and the last finishes the story based on the last image

19. Yodio a site that lets kids narrate over pictures http://yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=w4zTOMoiP 66QcM34nmw5FJ http://yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=w4zTOMoiP 66QcM34nmw5FJ

20. DE Content: Audio Audio: readings, literature, speeches, etc. Songs Sound effects

22. Glogster http://lindsaykhopkins.edu.glogster.com/Edgar-Allan- Poe/

24. One Take Video http://www.discoveryeducation.com /DEN/drlodgevideochallenge.cfm

25. Podcasts Use audacity or the garageband app to record the class singing the DE songs.

26. Digital Storytelling Use sites/apps like ibooks author, kizoa, and simplebooklet Embed sound effects in the stories

27. DE Content: Reading Encyclopedia Events Learning guides Passages Primary Source Documents

28. Search for meaning...build literacy and analysis skills with wordle.net

29. wordsift.com another tool for visualizing text Bonus: Try TagCrowd for embeddable word clouds. Add them to your wiki, blog, or Discovery Education Builder tools!

31. DE Content: Teaching Activities Builders Content collections Graphic organizers Handouts Lesson plans Presentations Resources Assessments Quizes Writing prompts

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