This video titled Future of Learning: How Technology is Transforming Public Schools features Scott Kinney, the VP of Discovery Education, discussing technology use in classrooms. This started me thinking about streaming video.
For next school year I was hopeful to get streaming video into our classrooms. Currently our school has a few outdated VHS tapes and even fewer DVDs which our teachers use in their classrooms. In addition our District collectively purchases videos and we pay approximately $1100/year for our K-8 Elementary School's use of the videos and a few other items.
I believe that this money would be better spent on streaming video (we will have bandwidth to support this). I'm hopeful for either Discovery's United Streaming or SAFARIMontage.
Do any of you have schools which subscribe to video streaming? Is it worth paying for subscriptions like these if we can access Teacher Tube or other free videos from our school?
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I just want to point out that this is the first blog I've created where I've added tags. How easy it was, they were right there under the title "labels". I can't believe I missed it all along, but thankful to have found how to do it now.
ReplyDeleteCheri - I really like the streaming possibilites that Discovery Education has to offer, although, I find their library of videos to be a bit out dated. There is relatively little surrounding computers, technology and things related to what I teach. Maybe science teachers have better luck. Often times, the streaming bogs down the system, but with discovery, you can download to your computer and play directly from your hard drive. No worries that it will stop mid stream! You never know with technology. Always have to have that back up plan!
ReplyDeleteOh ~ And good for you on the tags! :)
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