No time for staff development? Need to attract new
teachers to your school district? Ready to use short video or audio clips
to enhance your curriculum? Interested in companies that offer streaming
content delivery to schools? Depending on your bandwidth, streaming media
can help you do all this and more! By using streaming media you can see
and hear live broadcasts via the web. Streaming media allows sound and
video files to be divided into small packets, delivering these packets in
small streams to your computer. This technology allows you to watch and
hear a video clip streamed or downloaded to use in presentations. Visit
this website to see some examples:
Streaming Media Hotlist
Streaming Media Contest
Presenter Bios
Katie Beedon, Education Advocate, SBC Pacific
Bell
Katie Beedon is a former science teacher with
ten years experience in Sacramento and San Diego, California, as well as
in West/Central Africa (Katie peut également parler français!) She has a
Multiple Subjects teaching credential, a Single-subject Life Science
teaching credential, and an M.A. in Educational Technology from
San Diego State University. Katie has been
with the Education First Applications Design Team since 1995; first as a
graduate assistant and then as an
Education Advocate.
Katie works closely with San Diego, Orange County,
Imperial, and Riverside County account managers to identify education
application opportunities, assist customers with technology choices, and
provide value-add services such as customized workshops and presentations.
She is also responsible for creating a statewide quarterly
newsletter, which is popular with both
customers and account managers.
Marycay Densmore
Marycay Densmore is Nationally Board
Certified in Early Adolescence/English Language Arts. She has a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication and Liberal Studies, a
Multiple Subjects and English Credential, and a Master of Arts in Guidance
and Counseling. Marycay has been a teacher for twenty-two
years. She taught four years overseas. Two years were spent at
a Japanese high school in Ichinoseki, Japan, and two years were for the
Department of Defense Dependent Schools in Oslo, Norway. Marycay has
taught 2nd-5th, 7th, and 9-12th grade
(RSP, ELL, and GATE students). Her subject matter has included
English/language arts, social studies, multiple subjects, and speech
communication.
Marycay wrote a grant for $31,000 that enabled her to wire the school and
buy the equipment. She has provided videoconferences for many
teachers at her school. Marycay has videoconferenced with many
famous authors such as Gary Soto, David Macaulay, Michael Cart, and
Michael Hearn. In addition, she videoconferenced with the following
places: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Television and
Radio, Ocean Institute in Dana Point, San Diego Zoo, and the California
Science Center. Marycay has also been fortunate to have
videoconferenced with schools on the east coast in order to collaborate on
student projects. Videoconferencing has become a part of her
classroom environment.
