SAFARI+Montage

SAFARI Montage Update Features
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 * What is SAFARI MONTAGE?**

It is a place to view, store, and share video (QuickTime)- educational publisher and/or student/teacher created. Share created playlists by building or district and view video of various lengths, live streaming capable: local school news and cable, network, satellite and media (educational publisher provided and/or student/teacher created flipcharts, image files, audio files, interactive items (i.e. Flash)) warehouse to enrich content delivery.


 * In the next version SAFARI should enable montage to….**
 * Access to websites, YouTube “portal”
 * Link videos to state standards
 * Allow outside users to watch videos
 * Student access at school and at home
 * Enable short quiz and //results of quiz reporting//
 * NEW VIDEOS (more publishers)!
 * Can teachers post their original content?
 * Additional video content up-to-date for all content areas
 * A reliable media player with high-quality presentation

Does Montage have a role in Lesson Planning and Construction?
What is your practice? Your recommendations? Structures for organizing and referencing your resources?

Planbook online (FACS), flipchart with uploads (but Montage hasnt been reliable enough). We have never used Montage as a place to begin lesson planning. Search in Promethean Planet. Search for things available online (World History for us all, etc).

Current practice? - save as flipcharts/folders - embed vidoes/links into flipcharts

Recommendations? - more simplicity and ease of integration of media - global access - web based system to access content (think google presentation/slideshare)

Structures for organizing and referencing your resources? - embed links/videos to gPres, flipchart, etc.

PROB: Content sees mulitiple use that diminishes its curricular impact. SOLU: More content, wider variety, stricter tags for specific curriculum
 * Challenges**

PROB: Using Montage as a lesson planning structure is unnecessary or redundant as other constructs are already in use (and using Montage resources).

GOING FORWARD works for some content areas better

Should we build around editing the content and forming playlists and original content given the possibility. Assumption is that content that can be loaded into