Why Safari Montage? Video-on-Demand. Instructional/Curricular Resources. Organizing all of your resources in one location!

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1 ESU 10

2 Why Safari Montage? Video-on-Demand Instructional/Curricular Resources Organizing all of your resources in one location!

3 Sustain 21 st Century Learning Possible Purposes for Using Safari Montage For Pre-teaching For Teaching For Reinforcement For Review For Remediation For Extension

4 How to Access Safari Montage safari.esu10.org

5 The Dashboard Where your Montage experience starts! Selected Video Navigation Bar Whose playlists you are currently displaying. Your most recent playlists Your most recent videos Starts a tutorial video on how to use the Dashboard! Available Digital Video Streams Available Internet Video Streams

6 The Navigation Bar How to get around in Safari Montage. o Dashboard - Your Home Page o Search Here, you can use search terms to locate videos in the video library. o Subjects This is where you can browse for video content by topic o Standards - Here you can search for the State Standards and Core Curriculum. o Playlists - To create and organize your playlists. o Modules - Displays the available add-ons for Safari Montage. o Preferences - Accesses settings to alter how Safari Montage works for you. o Help - Anything and everything you might need to know about Safari Montage.

7 DashBoard (cont.) Take some time to set your Preferences Contact Information Closed Caption Settings Permanent Links Whiteboard Settings Search Preferences Be sure to click Update in each section after any changes.

8 Safari Montage Toolbar Dashboard (playlist categories) Searching Options keyword subject tree standards Playlist Button (to set up new playlist) Modules Preferences (closed captioning option)

9 The Search Page The place to go to find your video! Enter your search keywords here. Checkmark each media type you want to search for. Checkmark special restrictions you want put on the movies found. Starts a tutorial video on how to use the search tool! Gives helpful search hints until you start a search. Then this area shows the search results.

10 After the Search With these tabs, you can select the type of media you want to see from the search results. Shows the Digital Media Publisher for this video content. Here the first result is listed. You can scroll through the search results with this scroll bar. Under some videos, chapters are listed for the video (which can be added to a playlist or watched independently)

11 Check out the Navigation Toolbar!

12 Valid File Formats

13 Developing Playlists and Making Permanent Links to Playlists Using the Media Player (control functions) Cropping video clips Setting up a new playlist Saving, editing, and adding comments to playlists Sharing playlists (school only) Copying a permanent link for playlist into a PowerPoint, MS Word, or webpage

14 Playing the Video This + adds the video to our ACTIVE playlist. ** before you add it, get on correct play list! This arrow starts the video playing. Note that this particular video is Closed Captioned for the Hearing Impaired. When you press the play arrow, the Safari Montage system takes you back to a pseudo Dashboard and starts your video. You can also choose to play a specific chapter, in which case it will start the video at the beginning of that chapter, and then continue to the end of the video. NOTE: More playback options are available when a movie is played from the Search Tab instead of the Dashboard Tab.

15 How Do I Control My Video? There are a LOT of options available for controlling your viewing experience, so we ll take this in steps. You can use this scrub bar to scan (or scrub) through the video to any point. VCR or DVD player style controls to Play, Stop, Skip to the Next Chapter or Skip to the Previous Chapter. Starts a tutorial video on how to use the Video Viewer tool! There is a Quiz associated with this video that you can have your students take.

16 Video Playback Control (Continued) This button will allow you to adjust the speed from.7x to 2.5x normal speed. Click here to watch your video in a new window and full screen. Use this sound tool to increase, decrease, or mute the video s playback sound. This icon will make the movie full screened, without any bars. To end this mode, press the ESC key. Many videos have different playback options which will be displayed here. This video is Closed Captioned. You can click this button to show the captioning. Press this button to add this movie to your current active Playlist.

17 Integrating Safari Montage Why the buzz??? What are you wanting to add to your content? How will you integrate Safari Montage?

18 Creating Folders for Playlists Always create folder BEFORE Playlist!

19 Create Folders!

20 How to Create a Playlist Use this search to search through playlists. Click here to start a new Playlist Let s create a new Playlist.

21 Time to Play... List 7. Save your playlist! 6. Do you want to share this playlist? 1. Give your playlist a title. 2. What subject is this playlist for? 3. With the Grade Ranges, you can choose what grades your playlist is listed under for any playlist searches. 4. Write comments about your playlist. Why was it created? What is it trying to teach? What inspired it? 5. The default folder for your playlists is My Playlists. You can change to another folder if you have created one on the Playlist main page.

22 Sharing My Playlist When you create the playlist: In the Playlist Tab s list of playlists: In each playlist s organization screen: Once you share your playlist, it is shared with everyone at your school (School) or everyone on the ESU 10 server (District).

23 ACTIVE Playlist Videos are added only to your ACTIVE playlist. This means if you want to add a video to a non-active playlist, you will have to make that playlist active. The top Playlist is ACTIVE. To make another playlist ACTIVE, just click on its title. Clicking on the title not only makes it ACTIVE, but it also brings you to the playlist s organization screen.

24 Organizing My Playlist You can add Quizzes to your Playlists. REMEMBER: Some videos have quizzes built in already. Starts a tutorial video on how to use the Playlist Playback tools! Up and Down arrows allow you to move videos and clips closer to the top or bottom of your playlist. The playlist plays from top to bottom.

25 Create Playlists! Create Folder (on left) Action -new Playlist

26 Cropping / Bookmarking You can also add segments of a video to your playlists. Even better, you can choose where the segment starts and where it ends. Use this video clock to determine what your start and end times should be set to. Start Point: The time your segment will start. End Point: The time your segment will end. Save to Playlist: Saves the segment with the current start point and end point to your ACTIVE playlist. Bookmark Controls Preview Segment: Plays video from the current start point to the current end point.

27 Playing My Playlist Automatically runs the traditional way: From start to finish with no pauses. Manual opens a new full screen window with a previous and next option at the bottom. It will play the first movie and stop. You will have to press next to start the next video in the playlist. Slide show controls Manual Playback

28 Modules Have a video of your own you want to upload? Have other files such as documents, Power Points, etc. that you want to upload? Add documents, Power Points, etc. to Safari! (in MY LOCKER) To Share: Modules, MY LOCKER, File, Edit, Rights Management, Share Permissions. Save.

29 Work Time! Don t Forget Create Folder first! Then Action new Playlist

30 Getting Help There is a Help Tab in the navigation bar which takes you to a listing of many topics you may want more information on. There is also a tutorial button on most pages that will start a video tutorial on how to use that page. If you have more technical questions, you can contact Safari Tech Support at:

31 More Help! NIS Dept: Graci Gillming ext 229 Peg Coover ext 298 Ron Cone ext 264 Susan Sandoval ext 248 or call