We recently did a neat project where we used video clips in a
Kidpix project to make a movie about ocean creatures. This is a
perfect way to use Discovery Streaming video clips. Here are the
steps: 1. Students picked an ocean creature and did research to
learn some new facts about it. We used books in the classroom,
but you also could use the internet. Students came into the
computer lab with a paper that had one or two sentences about
their ocean animal already prepared. 2. I had downloaded video
clips in Quicktime format from Discovery Streaming and stored
them in advance in a file that the students could open. I made
sure that there was at least one or two clips for every animal.
3. Students came into the lab and started a new Kidpix picture.
I first showed them how to import a video clip onto their page
and position it at the top of their page using “IMPORT > MOVIE”
from the top menu bar. Then they used the paint bucket to color
the page a solid color. Finally they created a text box and
typed their sente