1. UnitedStreaming More Than A VCR Darcy Goshorn East Pennsboro Area School District

2. UnitedStreaming.com Write this down: Username: morethanavcr Password: more This is a temporary dummy account setup just for this today. It will be disabled tomorrow.

3. Customize your homepage Click on My Account > My Home Page to add things like: –Today in History –Featured Videos –New Videos on your very own unitedstreaming home page

4. Standard Custom

5. Explore your world with out leaving your classroom! Use the Atlas as an Activator

7. Mega! VCR unitedstreaming Videos –Download a video or segment –Make sure that you have QuickTime selected in your media settings –Open iTunes and import your video (File > Add File to Library > Find your video) –Click on the video and select Advanced > Create iPod Version –Sync-ety, sync, sync

8. Practice Embedding…Really Embedding Video in PowerPoint Really Embedding –Save video or video segment to your computer –View > Toolbars > Control Toolbox –Click on More Controls (hammer and wrench icon) –Scroll down to Windows Media Player –Draw a box that will become the image below

9. Really Embedding Video in PowerPoint Really Embedding –Right click on the media player > Select properties –Click on the empty cell next to “Custom”

11. How ‘Bout Streaming? Morgan Freeman, Lean On Me

13. Or get the YouTube Add-in Powerpoint 2007 skp.mvps.org/download.htm

14. Really Embedding Video in PowerPoint Really Embedding –Browse for your video > Click OK –In slideshow mode, you will be able to play the video embedded WITH controls like rewind, fast forward, sound, etc.

15. CC Closed Captioning I use VideoLan Client (VLC) WiMP anyone?

16. CC Closed Captioning Trick Font Size –Open the CC file in a text editing program like Wordpad or Notepad –Locate the line of code that indicates “font size” –Increase the font size from 10 to 30 (or whatever you prefer) –Save the CC file

17. CC 10 pt 30 pt

18. CC

19. Build Something Upgrades to “The Builders” Now you can add bullets, spreadsheets, bold, italics and more! Now your students can type a response to your prompt and send it to you electronically. You can even view their results on line! http://students.discoveryeducation.com/genericStudentIndex.cfm?cdPasscode=W73CA-A3D9

20. Share! Go to: www.unitedstreaming.com/studentcenter Enter the code: W73CA-A3D9 …now what…? …maybe Wordle.net!Wordle.net

21. Need a Fast Sponge Activity? Consult the Calendar

22. Thinking Thematically Use the Thematic Focus Archive

23. VCR 2.0 Essential Question: What makes Mars a significant planet in our solar system? Activity: Create a commercial for the first company offering trips to Mars.

24. http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SnqTX8bSJkg

25. Mad Props Presentation adapted from “Summer Streamin’” by Matt Monjan and Lance Rougeux