Digital Curriculum

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Digital Curriculum

• Video Resources for Teachers for Free.

Professional Development Training
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What it is .

• Library of digital video resources for
  teacher/student use for learning.
• 1,626 digital videos from 15 to 30 minutes each.
  (individual clips from 10 to 30 seconds- small
  size files.)
• Video concepts are correlated to Alabama State
  Course of Study student objectives.
• Video library is searchable by Title, Grade
  Level, Key concepts. Correlations are displayed
  with video title.
• Service and access provided by Alabama Public
  Television.
• Accessed through the Internet from your Classroom
  computer

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AVAILABLE RESOURCESCurrent as of December 3,
2003

• Full-Length K-12 Curriculum Videos  - 1,626
• Key Concept Video Clips 8,677
• Online Quiz Questions 10,905
• Online Quiz Review Questions 14,478
• Photos Still Images2,000 new high definition
  photos being added this December/January - 4,580
• State Framework Correlations 43
• National Framework Correlations 4

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• APTPLUS will give you access to more than 1400
  educational television programs with
  video-on-demand. With APTPLUS, you can easily
  search program content by key concepts that
  correlate to Alabama curriculum standards and
  choose appropriate clips between 2 and 6 minutes
  long that support specific ideas in your lesson.
  APTPLUS also allows you to find related lesson
  plans, teacher guides, sample tests, still images
  for use in multi-media projects, charts, graphs,
  audio files and more.

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Projected Use

• Teacher selects objective(s) from state course of
  study to teach to students.
• Teacher accesses Digital Curriculum and searches
  videos using key words from objective(s).
• Teacher selects video or videos for classroom use
  and reads summary and key concepts associated
  with video.
• Teacher schedules download of selected
  appropriate video (at night) and schedules time
  for review and viewing.
• Teacher incorporates video into daily lesson
  plan with activity and student evaluation
  instrument.
• Teacher documents video location for future use
  and reference.

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Other Capabilities

• TEACHERS CAN
• - Use video clips and photos in multimedia
  presentations
• - Create their own online assignments and video
  play lists
• - Create their own online custom tests and
  quizzes
• - Receive emailed results of students tests and
  quizzes

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Other Capabilities

• STUDENTS CAN
• - Review the most relevant video content using
  key concept clips
• - Use photos and video clips for multimedia
  presentations, projects and papers
• - Use videos for remediation, review or
  enrichment
• - Take online practice quizzes
• - Use videos for self-paced learning

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LESSON PLANS

• Most videos in the APT PLUS library come with
  lesson plans.
• These lesson plans contain tests and numerous
  other reproducible activities to use in the
  classroom, as additional instruction, for
  homework, or extra credit.

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FULLY INTERACTIVE ONLINE ASSESSMENT

• Professional educators have created quizzes and
  tests for instructional videos in the APT PLUS
  library.
• If a student selects an incorrect answer, he or
  she will receive online video feedback, a short
  video clip reinforcing the correct answer.
• Teachers have the option of creating their own
  custom quizzes for students to take online.
• Not currently recommended for dial-up use due to
  bandwidth limitations.

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The Good.

• Can download the videos and still images for
  classroom use (free).
• Can play the videos using windows media player
  and through PowerPoint.
• Can project computer images and video via
  projector or TV adaptor in the classroom.
• The videos are designed for teaching specific
  objectives and not for entertainment.

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The Bad.

• Use of this resource by teachers will require
  TIME for review and planning.
• Digital Curriculum web site is setup to stream
  the videos for viewing while online, but it does
  not work well because of the limited capacity
  (bandwidth) of our network. (Future possibility).
• Teachers must review the video description and
  correlated objectives for classroom application
  BEFORE downloading and using the video.
• Excessive use by students during the school day
  has the potential to slow other network
  operations.

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The Ugly.

• Digital video files are VERY LARGE in size and
  can fill a computer hard drive easily.
• Digital video files require a long time to
  download and can slow Internet Access for
  everyone if downloaded during the regular school
  day.
• Storing several digital video files on a single
  computer over a long period of time is not
  practical. (Video must be moved to another media
  storage if future use is planned.)
• Digital videos can be burned to a CD if CD
  burner is present.

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The Digital Curriculum Web Site Tour

• Digital Curriculum Log-On Screen.

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Select a Video Streaming Server. (after log-on)

• Can be set to default to Windows Internet Server.

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Digital Curriculum MENU Bar

• MY DC personalized page for user
• Assignments stores assignments the user
  creates.
• Search user searches the video database for
  resources.(default page)
• Correlations course of study AL objectives
  linked to the video curriculum
• Current Events- Very good!
• Resources- Can get a list of ALL video titles
  here.
• Log Out must use this to quit the site.

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My DC page.
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Assignments Page.
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Search Page
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Correlations Page
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Current Events.
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Resources Page.
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Help Page.
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Next Steps.

• See your school librarian to obtain a user name
  and password to APTPLUS/Digital Curriculum.
• Access the APT website for more details on
  Digital Curriculum. http//www.aptv.org/Learning/A
  PTPlus/index.asp
• Access Digital Curriculum to find a video or
  other resource that you can use.
• Remember the file size and storage limits of your
  computer.
• Schedule the Technology Coach for help in
  developing your student technology idea.

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QUESTIONS?