United Streaming Tips

For more information on using United Streaming, access the Professional Development section when you log in.

* Log in to United Streaming (trcuser; user)
* Click the Professional Development link (on the right side of the screen)
* Go into the Trainer's Toolkit (the QuickStart guide should help, check out the UserGuide and PowerPoint presentations also)

If you come across any problems or have any questions about how to do something, please don't hesitate to let me know!!

TTI Lesson Resources

The Teacher Training Institute (TTI) through Blue Ridge Public Television (WBRA) helps teachers throughout the state with designing and developing technology-rich lesson plans for their classrooms. All of the lessons created through TTI have a video component as well as a web component. In addition many of them creatively incorporate other forms of technology and software. The TTI Master Teachers work year-round to create lesson plans that follow the general TTI model of effectively using video in the classroom. All of these lessons are available through the WBRA website for anyone to copy, alter and implement. These are "tried-and-true" lessons as most of the TTI Master Teachers are classroom teachers who have tested their lessons with actual students. For this assignment, access the TTI Lessons and browse through them to get a general sense of the model and how they are designed. Choose one lesson to read more thoroughly and post a reaction to include the following items:

- State the title of the lesson
- State three things you liked about the lesson
- State one thing you didn't like
- Briefly describe how you might adapt this lesson for your class or needs

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines

It is important to know and understand the guidelines for using multimedia products in your classroom. Our local PBS station, WBRA, has developed a synthesis of these guidelines to help guide teachers in using video, audio, etc. in their classrooms. For this assignment, access the Copyright Confusion Made Clear website and read carefully through all of the guidelines.

When you are finished, click on the link below to access questions related to the website. Complete the questions based on what you read through the WBRA website; you may access the website as often as you need.

Click here for access to the questions

If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. This assignment is due on Friday, October, 26.