Discovery Education

I had a meeting with the representatives from Discovery Education Canada today. This site is part of the Discovery channel and we primarily use it for watching videos that support curriculum. We don't download the video. Instead we just stream the video or portion of from their site and it doesn't take up space on our server. They have just expanded their Canadian service and are actively purchasing more videos with Canadian content.

I didn't realize the other features of Discovery until today. First, our school should be able to set up individual teacher logins rather than the school password that we currently have. Then we will be able to add their videos into a My Content section and keep the videos we like in a very accessible place. Also they also demonstrate the atlas feature that has a map of the world. When you move the mouse over a country, all the videos that they have that about that country are linked on the side. Many applications in a classroom.

We also discovered that they have negotiated an ERAC pricing at $2.00 a student for every school in BC. Well worth it in our opinion. It is very easy to set up a trial password for schools and district who are thinking of video streaming but not sure yet. Discovery is the number one video streaming service in the States.