With the combination of available digital tools to create digital content and through an interactive whiteboard medium along with the availability of on demand content educators now have at their fingertips a plethora of resources to create digital lessons. These digitally designed resources through content development servers like MEDIACast can provide educators with a digital library for centralizing content that project organizers, educators, and students can create through a creative commons environment.

Download: Digital Tools Demonstration Lesson

Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) is a nonprofit organization providing free legal mechanisms for learners inside and outside schools to share and remix content. A creative commons environment allows for an expanded range of creative work to be available for others to legally build upon and share. Once the Creative Commons domain has been developed it will enable content creators to grant some or all of their rights to the exclusive domain through open content licensing terms. The intention of the exclusive Creative Commons domain is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information. External links with elements digital content library can then be used as live events as they are tied to a presentation to bring depth and dimension to a lesson.

Teachers and students who create, digital activities can then be engaged in an important role in demonstrating the practical and effective uses of interactive technology resources in both teaching and learning. For teachers, digital content libraries will offer access to a broad array of combining interdisciplinary content into a complete seamless learning experience. No longer will content be segmented and delivered in multiple strands, but can now be combined into presentations that will expand the learning opportunities for all students.

Download: Technology Integration and Project-based Learning

Google announces a new site for educators. Google for Educators is a featured site to support instruction that is designed for teachers

The site supports a teacher's guide to 12 Google products, including basic information about each tool, examples of how educators are using them, and lesson ideas. You'll also find lesson plans and videos from Discovery Education focusing on two teaching tools: Google Earth and Google SketchUp.

Google Earth even has a special section for Discovery Education and using unitedstreaming. Additionally the Google Office suite is available for use. Google has combined Writely and Google Spreadsheets into Google Docs and Spreadsheets .

"Production Resources,"is designed to help digital developers with a plethora of websites that support free media sources for sound, digital imaging, editors, clip art, and video resources. Users entering this website must abide by copyright policy as requested by the Enid Public Schools and the web host. Please read each copyright resource header before activating a link to ensure that you have full understanding of requirements prior to using digital media in a production.

DISCOVERY ATLAS
On October 1, the Discovery Channel will present DISCOVERY ATLAS. Discovery Atlas is a four part series exploring the diverse cultures of China, Italy, Australia, and Brazil. CHINA REVEALED will be the first HD Theater event to be globally broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. A Google Navigators Guide for this event can be found by clicking the following link starting on October 1, 2006.
For more information about this series, visit

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/atlas/atlas.html

"The Silk Road"

DOWNLOAD CHINA INTERATIVE LESSON here (40 meg)

Google Earth Demo Power Point Presentation
How to Link Video to Google Earth


Before you continue please read the Enid Public Schools Fair Use Policy of Unitedstreaming

Unitedstreaming provides up to 5000 educational
videos delivered over the Internet. As members of the Unitedstreaming community teachers in the Enid district may download or stream video content. Many of the videos have teacher's guides and all of the videos are correlated to state curriculum. Please contact your school's library media specialist for login information and the password. To help teachers get acquainted with how Unitedstreaming works the Informational Technology department has provided a few tutorial links below.

You are now ready to use the website by clicking on the www.unitedstreaming.com. In the meantime if you have any questions regarding this site please feel free to contact your IT Director Mike King at mdking@enidk12.org.

Whiteboard Demonstration Lesson








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June 2006