Ruth’s Ruckus2

Many of you are aware that there have been many changes to United Streaming in the past year.  I’ll list them here in case you have not noticed:

• They have changed their name.  This was Discovery Education’s way to bring uniformity to all of their new products.  So United Streaming is now DE Streaming (Discovery Education Streaming).
•  PPS has changed our method of access.  Last school year if you were on the  PPS network and navigated to the DE Streaming site, you were automattically logged in.  We are no longer doing that in order to allow teachers access to the DE Streaming teacher tools while on the network.
• We’ve scheduled lots of professional developmnent on use of the DE Streaming teacher tools because they are absolutely fabulous, fun and free.  So we need to use them.
• DE Streaming has created a student center with lots of classroom application that is due to roll out in the spring.

Why am I telling you all of this?  Because DE Streaming is about to roll out another batch of changes while we are on break.  As a DEN (Discovery Educator Network) STAR Educator I get updates about changes and promotions that Discovery Education is planning.  The last few updates have included an invitation to a webinar about the changes that will be made in late December.  Deloris and I attended this afternoon.  They will be changing the login page to one that is very customizeable.  They will be adding new search perameters as well.  The other changes won’t effect most users.  If the changes throw you for a loop, let me know.