From Brad Fountain (Field Manager, NC/SC) Well this seems to be an appropriate follow-up to Rachel’s wonderful post about the image collection in unitedstreaming. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Adobe Photoshop Elements is a software program that allows you to edit, organize, and add special effects to photos/images. With schools continuing to use
Tip #21 Thousands of Pictures Await You!
From Rachel Amtsutz (Field Manager, MD/DC/International) It’s been said that "A picture is worth a thousand words." No matter how you do the math 1,000 words x 20,000 images = A LOT of Images waiting for you! Check out the more than 20,000 images available in the Image Library on unitedstreaming. Housed in the Learning
Tip #20: Timeliner Possibilities
From Danielle Abernethy (Field Manager, Northern FL) TimeLiner software and unitedstreaming make a great team. As in Inspiration, the videos must be saved as Quick Time, but from there the possibilities are only limited to your imagination! One popular topic in Social Studies is the Civil War. To create a timeline, download the video clips
Tip#19: Audacity – The FREE, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
From Brad Fountain (Field Manager, NC/SC) What is it and why do I want it? Audacity is a free, easy to use audio editor and recorder that educators and students should find very useful in producing content for use in presentations. Audacity can used to: record live audio, covert tapes into digital recordings, edit
Tip #18 – Assignment Builder: Rube Goldberg Inventions
From Brad Fountain and his wife Laura (Field Manager, NC/SC) Have you ever heard of Rube Goldberg? Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist whose cartoons, by his own description "were symbols of man’s capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results". As your students create Rube Goldberg inventions, machines designed to complete
Tip #17: Calendar- Who did What, When?
from Dawn Strunk (Field Manager, New England) Do you know what happened on July 28th? Well Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Beatrix Potter were born, Fingerprints were first used for identification, Potatoes were first introduced in Europe, and oh yeah, it’s my birthday! Can you guess which of these events are on the unitedstreaming Calendar? Have
Tip #16: The Many Uses of Movie Maker
From Rachel Amstutz (Field Manager, MD/DC/International) This is my favorite icon on unitedstreaming! Have you noticed it before and wondered what it meant? This icon means that the video is editable. (No you can’t eat it!) Basically, the producers of this video have given permission for you and your students to download this clip and
Tip #15: Are You Ready for the Next Generation?
From Karen Seddon (Field Manager, South FL) The excitement is building. The chrysalis is opening. the new unitedstreaming is coming soon! We are so excited because we have been getting sneak previews of the finished pieces of the next generation of unitedstreaming and it is amazing! On this “Tip A Day in May,” we will
Tip #14: Inspired Streaming
From Danielle Abernethy (Field Manager, Northern FL) One of the many reasons that I love unitedstreaming is that it plays nicely with other software. I love how I can embed it into PowerPoint, create my own digital stories with it in MovieMaker (or other programs), and even use it with my favorite software, Inspiration. Inspiration
Tip #13: Getting to Know Each Other with Assignment Builder
At the beginning of each school year it’s always fun to get to know the new group of students you have in your class. Some of these students you know and some of them you don’t. Some of them know each other and some don’t. Here is a great lesson that has been created in