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Discovery Streaming - November 2, 2010
User Guide




 * Playing and Downloading Full Videos and Video Segments **

Discovery Education™ //streaming// videos are divided into "chapters" or "segments" so educators can show the part that best relates to their teaching objective or lesson. Click on the Video Segments tab to view a complete list of video segments. || You can view a video segment "live" or stream in "real-time" by clicking on the Play button. The quality of the video streaming experience will depend on many factors including the speed of your Internet connection and the number of people at your school who are online while you are streaming video content.
 * [[image:http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/images/help/play1.gif]] || [[image:http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/images/help/play2.gif]] ||
 * **Play Video **

When you download a video segment, you save a copy of the file on your computer or local network for future access. To download a video or video segment, right-click on the download icon (or Ctrl + click if using a Mac) and choose "Save Target As..."
 * Download a Video **

Many Discovery Education™ //streaming// videos are available with closed captioning (Windows Media Player only). To activate closed captioning, check the box next to "Enable Closed Captioning" in the Media Settings.
 * Closed Captioning **



To download videos with closed captioning, first download the video following the above instructions. Next click on the next to the play and download icons to download the closed captioning file. This file must reside in the same directory as the video and the filename (before the .smi extension) must be identical to the video filename.

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**To Perform a Search by Keyword**

 * Step 1:** Enter your keywords in the white search box, choose what content types you would like included in your results, then click on the "GO" button.




 * Step 2:**The search results page is now displayed. Narrow your search results by media type, subject, or grade using the "Narrow My Results" menu on the left side of the screen. From here you can modify the number of resources displayed on the page by clicking on the dropdown menu to display 10, 25, 50 or 100 items per page. Each video title appears in blue, with the total run time displayed at the end of the title. Also included are a video description, links to Blackline Masters and Teachers Guides (when available), and correlations to state standards, grade range and publisher. Icons will indicate Spanish, Closed-Captioned and Editable titles.


 * Step 3:**Click on either the blue video title or the thumbnail image to access the full video description page. ||


 * To Perform a Search by Subject or Grade:**


 * Step 1:** Click on a subject or grade on the "Subject/Grade Search" menu located on the left side of the screen.

Masters and Teachers Guides (when available), and correlations to state standards, grade range and publisher. Icons will indicate Spanish, Closed-Captioned and Editable titles.
 * Step 2:** The search results page is now displayed. Narrow your search results by media type, subject, or grade using the "Narrow My Results" menu on the left side of the screen. From here you can modify the number of resources displayed on the page by clicking on the dropdown menu to display 10, 25, 50 or 100 items per page. Each video title appears in blue, with the total run time displayed at the end of the title. Also included are a video description, links to Blackline

|| **To Perform a Search by Curriculum Standard:**
 * Step 3:** Click on either the blue video title or the thumbnail image to access the full video description page. ||||  ||


 * Step 1:** Locate the Curriculum Standards Search menu in the lower-left of **Discovery Education** //streaming//, select your State, Subject and Grade and click on the blue "GO" button.


 * Step 2:** Browse the list of relevant curriculum standards; and when you locate the standard that you are interested in click "videos meeting this standard" to display a list of videos that meet that standard. || [[image:http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/images/help/standardssearch.gif width="132" height="141" align="top"]] ||



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