Something New From DiscoveryEducation
For those not familiar with DiscoveryEducation, it is a Discovery Channel website offering tons of media content for the classroom. A similar website from years past, United Streaming, offered free web access to movies, video segments, lesson plans, black-master copies, audio clips, and photos, but it eventually became a paid site.
Recently, Discovery Channel’s DiscoveryEducation merged with United Streaming. Now with a small paid subscription, schools can have access to this vast amount of media and unlimited downloads of that content.
For teachers who like to download video segments, rather then entire movies, DiscoveryEducation has a new option: Flash-based movies using the .FLV format. This is a great option for SMART Notebook users — you can download the .FLV version of the movie and insert it onto a Notebook page without loosing the Internet during a lesson.
What’s the advantage? This gives the teacher at least two different ways of helping students to takes notes while playing a video:
- Using SMART Video Player (plays the ASF formats), the video pauses while the teacher uses a pen to guide notes, and
- while in Notebook the teacher can write onto the same page as the FLV movie is playing without pausing or stopping the movie.
If you have any other great hints or suggestion, please let us know!
