Description
Discovery Education is a division of Discovery Communications, the leading global real-world and knowledge-based media company. The leader in digital video-based learning, Discovery Education produces and distributes high-quality digital video content in easy-to-use formats, in all core-curricular subject areas. Its award-winning digital learning resources are licensed to more than 70,000 schools across the United States. Discovery Education is committed to creating scientifically proven, standards-based digital resources for teachers, students, and parents. Through strategic partnerships with over 25 public television stations across the country, its public service initiatives, products, and joint business ventures, Discovery Education helps educators around the world harness the power of broadband and media to connect their students to a world of learning.
Discovery Education unitedstreaming allows teachers and educators to stream or download over 40,000 video content segments and 4,000 full video titles from DiscoverySchooland other award-winning producers. Video content is correlated to your state and provincial standards, and an average of 300-400 new video titles are added annually. Teachers can quickly and efficiently search a video library via curriculum standard, keyword, subject area, grade, producer, new releases, or all available titles. Additional features of Discovery Education unitedstreaming include Hardware neutral, no special software or hardware needed, image library with over 18,000 images, including 2,000 geography images, lesson Plans correlated to videos, calendar of important dates in history linked to video clips in five core curriculum areas, plus biographies, health and guidance, and commemorations, teacher's guides and blackline masters/worksheets, 100 Spanish videos, 300 Closed Caption titles for visual learners, hearing impaired and student learning English as a second language, 27,000 encyclopedia articles, over 1,200 editable video clips, and a clip Art Gallery with over 1,500 images.
Complete program details are at: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
Review Summary and Statement of Alignment
The International Society for Technology in Education completed review of the Discovery Education unitedstreaming on April 2, 2007 and determined that the program clearly supports the implementation of the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students in a specific, carefully reviewed and documented manner and prepares participants to substantially meet the following standards:
NETS•S ALIGNMENT
 Meets: I.B., II.A., II.B., II.C., III.A., III.B., IV.A., IV.B., V.A., V.C., VI.B.
Supports significant growth for: I.A., V.B., VI.A.
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