digital content

Next week schools around the country will be commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Students will be engaged in service projects and learning about the message of Martin Luther King, Jr.   But what is the state of civil rights education in our country today? 

In today’s world many teachers are starting to integrate more and more digital content into instruction. With SAFARI Montage teachers do not have to download internet content the night before class and hope it will play the next day! Our content is not streamed from the internet but instead we use a file sharing process, where the content is provided on a server that “lives” in your school building or district. What this means to you as a teacher is with one click, from one interface, you can access thousands of digital assets to include in teaching.

In today’s world many teachers are starting to integrate more and more digital content into instruction. With SAFARI Montage teachers do not have to download internet content the night before class and hope it will play the next day! Our content is not streamed from the internet but instead we use a file sharing process, where the content is provided on a server that “lives” in your school building or district. What this means to you as a teacher is, that with one click, from one interface, you can access thousands of digital assets to include in your lessons. 

Prince George’s County Public Schools 14th annual Powering Up with Technology conference on Saturday November 13th offered another great experience for teachers and administrators to interact with technology vendors. I thoroughly enjoyed my three training sessions with PGCPS teachers focusing on SAFARI Montage basics, CreationStation for uploading digital content to the SAFARI Montage system, and Integrating Digital Content into Curriculum.

Once again I am proud to say that Baltimore County Public Schools is on the cutting edge of technology in education. As a countywide initiative, SAFARI Montage CreationStation is now in every school.

In this new age of the digital student, multimedia and interactive curriculum, there are two ways to engage students -- either give each of them a computer or outfit each classroom with a projection device that displays the information so that it is large enough for everyone to see. The latter is the direction we chose at Garland ISD when looking towards the future.

Baltimore County Public Schools in association with the Carnegie Institution has introduced a program entitled Project BioEYES to all Title I elementary schools. BioEYES is a unique program that introduces the basics of research science to Grade 5 students.

Our high school was fortunate to have been selected by the Baltimore County Public School's Office of Library and Information Service to receive CreationStation. This powerful tool allows our school to post locally created content to our servers for school-wide use. This posting ability has been an exciting opportunity for not only creativity but time saving practicality, especially for our administration.