Professional Development for Discovery Education streaming
CSD is excited to announce the expansion of the Virtual Learning Center (VLC). We are proud to continue our partnership with Discovery Education and Discovery Education streaming and are now adding Discovery Education streaming to the many technology resources we offer through our VLC. Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to educators by Discovery Education. The VLC is excited to have Stephanie Madlinger as our lead trainer for Discovery Education streaming. Stephanie has many years of classroom experience along with several years of leadership in technology professional development. Visit our new Virtual Learning Center website at http://www.csd.org/vlc to find the entire line of technology education we have to offer you and your staff.

At Your School
All Level One and Two Members of Cooperating School Districts can receive training on site. The possibilities of using Discovery Education streaming are endless. This incredible resource empowers educators to capture teachable moments in the classroom, incorporate clips into a multimedia presentation and student learning environments, and is ideal for project and inquiry based learning. Administrators have the ability to track the usage and effectiveness of Discovery Education streaming and technology coordinators have the ability to customize Discovery Education streaming to fit specific technology needs. By using Discovery Education streaming in your classroom the use of this evaluated resource is supported by scientific research to fulfill mandates set by NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. This user-friendly resource is complementary to any educator in the classroom today. Search a video library via curriculum standard, keyword, subject area, grade, producer, new releases, or all available titles. Contact Stephanie for pricing and available dates.

At Cooperating School Districts
To kickoff the addition of Discovery Education streaming to our VLC, CSD will offer FREE Discovery Education streaming trainings in our Tele on the second Monday of the month for the the 2008-09 school year. The Tele is located at 1460 Craig Road (Hwy 270 & Olive) Please contact Joan Forrest 314-692-1259 or jforrest@csd.org to register. Each hands-on training will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00p.m. Bring a friend or come by yourself. The following dates are scheduled for this school year. Space is limited so register early!

When using Discovery Education streaming you get:

* Over 55,000 video content segments - the largest and most current K-12 digital video/video clip library
* Standards-based video-on-demand - shown to increase student achievement/test scores
* Access to a wide variety of producers— Discovery Channel School , United Learning, Standard Deviants, Weston Woods, and many more
* New content and features continuously added every few weeks
* My Content to bookmark favorite video clips, quizzes, assignments & more for later use
* Diverse learner and Cross-cultural video library of over 100 Spanish clips and closed caption titles
* Ability to customize video clips for individualized instruction and differentiated learning
* Pre-made lesson plans, blackline masters, and other teacher resources like writing prompts and quizzes
* Calendar of events and important dates in history linked to video clips
* Library of over 1,500 Clip Art and over 2,500 Images from nationally recognized photographers & artists
* NEW Atlas feature to zoom into & out of countries, learning about the culture, history & government of each
*NEW Student Features to create Class Management assignments & individualized Student Accounts for organization of resources & teacher assigned work

For more information or to schedule a professional development training contact Stephanie Madlinger or (314) 692-1212.