SAFARI Montage BCPS 2012/2013

S AFARI Montage STUDENTS

What’s New? Student access Expanded content Thumbnails Expanded formats: web pages,.lit and.epub, document files CreationStation Mobile Device Support SAFARI Montage App from iTunes Store Common Core Support

PBS has terminated its U.S. K-12 digital distribution agreements with Discovery Education and Learn360 as of June 30, PBS and SAFARI Montage

K-8 Core Digital Resources include: 3,345 fully segmented and searchable video titles 219 audio files 146 documents 15,843 still images 27 web links K-8 Core (2012)

NEW video titles added including: –Reading Rainbow, 153 titles –Eyes on the Prize, 14 titles –America: The Story of Us (A&E) –The Diary of Anne Frank (BBC) –Johnny Tremain (Disney) –Bridge to Terabithia (Disney) –Great Migrations (National Geographic) –How the States Got Their Shapes (A&E) –Alice in Wonderland – animated and live action versions (Disney) –Mary Poppins (Disney) –Holes (Disney) – AND MUCH MORE! K-8 Core additions (2012)

9-12 Super Core Digital Resources include: 3,027 fully segmented and searchable video titles 219 audio files 146 documents 15,843 still images 27 web links 9-12 Super Core (2012)

94 NEW video titles added including: –14 Eyes on the Prize (PBS) –America: The Story of Us (A&E) –The Diary of Anne Frank (BBC) –Ken Burns: The War (PBS) –Freedom Riders (PBS) –More Engineering an Empire (A&E) –Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space (PBS) –African American Lives 2 (PBS) –Vanity Fair (BBC) –A Tale of Two Cities (BBC) –And more! 9-12 Core (2012)

Now part of your high school collection Highlights include: –The Eyes of Nye (Disney Educational Productions) –How the Earth Was Made (A&E) –Vietnam in HD (A&E) –Wonders of the Universe (BBC) –Great American Authors (Ambrose) –Guns, Germs and Steel (National Geographic) –750+ Science titles (Daily Planet, Physics Demonstrations, NOVA scienceNOW, Core Physics, Core Biology, The History of Science and more!) –World Languages content (Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Italian) –And more! 9-12 Expansion (2012)

Provides comprehensive instructional material covering a complete Algebra I curriculum. Supports Common Core and State Standards for Mathematics 37 hours of content reflected in 99 algebra lessons. 25 short videos profiling professionals who use algebra in their careers. Now includes 943 student and teacher PDFs as individual learning objects. Algebra’scool Teaching System

Addresses the essentials of basic math and pre-algebra skills. Supports Common Core and State Standards for Mathematic 41 hours of content reflected in 74 lessons. 13 short videos profiling professionals who use math daily in their professions. Now includes 892 student and teacher PDFs as individual learning objects. Math’scool Teaching System

702 photographs of weather-related phenomena 269 natural and historical resources from the National Park Service including 123 videos, 123 PDF documents & 23 PowerPoint presentations 27 web links to primary resources from the Library of Congress created for educators on historic themes such as civics, government, the Great Depression, colonial and early America and more Additional Content

Digital Resources From NASA Includes 680 Still Images and 61 Video Titles National Atlas of the United States Maps Content Package Includes 216 still images Appropriate for Grades K-12 Package includes 216 color maps of the United States, with general reference features such as boundaries, cities, capitals, major highways, rivers and lakes, and terrain.

Additional Content IRC: History Pictures Content Package Includes over 7,500+ Still Images Appropriate for grades 7-12, with many images appropriate for K-6 Includes over 7,500 still images of a wide range of historical subjects in the areas of World History, Western Civilizations, and American History as well as 160+ primary source audio files. Paintings by the Masters Image Package Includes 1,084 still images Appropriate for grades K-12 Package includes paintings from six master artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet

Additional Content Schlessinger Media Image Library Includes 2,500+ still images Appropriate for grades K-12 Package includes historic, geographic and cultural sites from around the world. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Photographs Includes 1222 still images Appropriate for Grades K-12 Package includes 1,222 remarkable photographs of birds and plants as well as pictures of other creatures such as invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, fish and mammals from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Hundreds of additional titles will be added to SAFARI Montage in December 2012 from the finest educational publishers such as: Ambrose Video Publishing Disney Educational Productions BBC National Geographic VEA Media Rich Learning Learning ZoneXpress Additional Content Coming in December 2012

SAFARI Montage CreationStation® and your Learning Object Repository Audio MP3, M4A DOCUMENT Adobe® Portable Document Format (.pdf) Apple® iWork® Keynote® (.key) Apple iWork Numbers® (.numbers) Apple iWork Pages® (.pages) Microsoft® Excel® (.xls,.xlsx) Microsoft PowerPoint® (.ppt,.pptx) Microsoft Word (.doc,.docx) OpenOffice.org® (.odt,.ods,.odg,.odf,.odp) Rich Text Format (.rtf) StarOffice® (.sdw,.sdc,.sdd,.sdp) Text (.txt) NEW 4.2 WEBLINKS Any URL Addresses IMAGE JPEG, GIF and Bitmap. INTERACTIVE Adobe Flash® (.swf) VIDEO Adobe Flash Video (.flv) H.264 (MPEG-4, Part 10/AVC) MPEG-1 Video File (.mpg) MPEG-4 Part 2 (.mp4) QuickTime® Movie (.mov) Windows Media® Video (.wmv) EBOOK NEW 4.3 EPUB® (epub) NEW 4.3 Microsoft Reader (.lit) WHITEBOARD Promethean® Flipchart (.flp,.flipchart) Promethean Resource Pack (.as3a) SMART Notebook (.xbk,.notebook) NEW 5.0 Hitachi® StarBoard® (.yar) NEW 5.0 eInstruction® Workspace™ (.gwb)

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