Do More With Discovery Education

As more of my district's teachers have started to implement the Discovery Education content and resources available to them into their lessons, I decided it was time to add another set of tutorials.  In a previous post, I demonstrated how teachers can search for resources and then share the links with their students.  If you're ready to take things to another level, you can start to share DE resources with your colleagues in your school and/or district and (this is the really big one) you can create your own classes, add your students, and create assignments that get delivered directly to the students.  Two of the assignment types that you can build are writing prompts and quizzes and the results of both can be reviewed and commented on by the teachers.  I go into a lot more detail in the videos.  Be sure to watch them in full screen and 720 HD.  Enjoy!

How to Share Discovery Education Resources With Your Colleagues

Creating Discovery Education Classes, Adding Students, and Creating Assignments

How to get the URL of a Discovery Education resource

A valuable resource we provide to the teachers and students in our district is access to the Discovery Education website.  It contains thousands of digital files of varying media types including full videos, video segments, images, clip art, audio tracks, songs, articles, interactive activities, complete lesson plans, presentations, handouts, assessment tools, and much more.  Many people associate Discovery Education with science and history, but their offerings now span dozens of subject areas including mathematics, English/language arts, health, world languages, visual/performing arts, research/study skills, teaching practices, career/work place skills, and more.  All of our teachers have the opportunity to create a Discovery Education account (Leyden teachers can click here to learn how) and, new for this school year, all of our students have been uploaded into the system and have accounts created for them (Leyden teachers can click here to learn how students log in).  In previous years, the only option for our teachers to use a Discovery Education resource was to project it in their classrooms.  Now that all of our students have their own Chromebooks, have their own Discovery Education accounts, and our teachers are publishing course content in a learning management system (we use OpenClass) or on websites, teachers can now share links to DE resources for students to access both in and out of the classroom.  The following video tutorial demonstrates how teachers can get the URL of a specific DE resource to share with their students.  Be sure to change the video resolution to 720 HD for best quality.  I plan on producing additional tutorials that show how teachers can create classes in their Discovery Education accounts, add their students, and share resources within the system.  So check back later.