Discovery Education

   

     If you are looking for a great all-purpose tool to use in the classroom, Discovery Education is it! Discovery Education is a video streaming service to which NWCS subscribes.  In Discovery Ed, you can find videos, images, lesson plans, class activities and more!  Many of us have been using these resources for quite some time, but what we didn't realize is that Discovery Education has much more to offer!
     As students create more and more content on their iPads (especially videos in iMovie) it is becoming more of a challenge to get those videos from them.  Discovery Education provides a simple platform students and teachers can use for this!  Students can simply login to Discovery Education and choose to create a board.  They then choose to add items and select media.  Next, they choose to upload media from their device, and select the video they want.  Once this is done, they choose to share their board with their teacher.  Now teachers can view all student-created iMovies in one place without taking up storage on their own devices.  They simply choose to view student boards, and that is that!
     Another nice feature of the board builder in Discovery Education is that students can create these boards (which are like interactive digital posters) and include not only their own original videos but also images and video from Discovery Education.  Students can include text, headlines, and much more on their boards.  It is a great presentation and creation tool for the classroom!

For more information about setting up a Discovery Education account for yourself and your students, please visit this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-t7c2dE_deYendzNGRWQnRPMWs/view?usp=sharing