SAFARI Montage BCPS
2012/2013
SAFARI Montage
STUDENTS
What’s New?
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Student access
Expanded content
Thumbnails
Expanded formats: web pages, .lit and .epub,
document files
CreationStation
Mobile Device Support
SAFARI Montage App from iTunes Store
Common Core Support
PBS and SAFARI Montage
PBS has terminated its U.S. K-12 digital
distribution agreements with Discovery
Education and Learn360 as of June 30, 2012.
K-8 Core (2012)
K-8 Core Digital Resources include:
• 3,345 fully segmented and
searchable video titles
• 219 audio files
• 146 documents
• 15,843 still images
• 27 web links
K-8 Core additions (2012)
NEW video titles added including:
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Reading Rainbow, 153 titles
Eyes on the Prize, 14 titles
America: The Story of Us (A&E)
The Diary of Anne Frank (BBC)
Johnny Tremain (Disney)
Bridge to Terabithia (Disney)
Great Migrations (National Geographic)
How the States Got Their Shapes (A&E)
Alice in Wonderland – animated and
live action versions (Disney)
– Mary Poppins (Disney)
– Holes (Disney)
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9-12 Super Core (2012)
9-12 Super Core Digital
Resources include:
• 3,027 fully segmented and
searchable video titles
• 219 audio files
• 146 documents
• 15,843 still images
• 27 web links
9-12 Core (2012)
94 NEW video titles added including:
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14 Eyes on the Prize (PBS)
America: The Story of Us (A&E)
The Diary of Anne Frank (BBC)
Ken Burns: The War (PBS)
Freedom Riders (PBS)
More Engineering an Empire (A&E)
Telescope: Hunting the Edge of
Space (PBS)
African American Lives 2 (PBS)
Vanity Fair (BBC)
A Tale of Two Cities (BBC)
And more!
9-12 Expansion (2012)
Now part of your high school collection
Highlights include:
– The Eyes of Nye (Disney Educational Productions)
– How the Earth Was Made (A&E)
– Vietnam in HD (A&E)
– Wonders of the Universe (BBC)
– Great American Authors (Ambrose)
– Guns, Germs and Steel (National Geographic)
– 750+ Science titles (Daily Planet,
Physics Demonstrations, NOVA scienceNOW, Core Physics,
Core Biology, The History of Science and more!)
– World Languages content
(Spanish, French, German,
Mandarin Chinese, Italian)
– And more!
Algebra’scool Teaching System
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Provides comprehensive instructional
material covering a complete Algebra I
curriculum.
Supports Common Core and State
Standards for Mathematics
37 hours of content reflected in 99 algebra
lessons.
25 short videos profiling professionals who
use algebra in their careers.
Now includes 943 student and teacher
PDFs as individual learning objects.
Math’scool Teaching System
• Addresses the essentials of basic math
and pre-algebra skills.
• Supports Common Core and State
Standards for Mathematic
• 41 hours of content reflected in
74 lessons.
• 13 short videos profiling professionals
who use math daily in their professions.
• Now includes 892 student and teacher
PDFs as individual learning objects.
Additional Content
702 photographs
of weather-related
phenomena
269 natural and historical
resources from the
National Park Service
including 123 videos, 123
PDF documents & 23
PowerPoint presentations
27 web links to primary
resources from the
Library of Congress
created for educators
on historic themes such
as civics, government,
the Great Depression,
colonial and early
America and more
Additional Content
Digital Resources From NASA
• Includes 680 Still Images and
61 Video Titles
National Atlas of the United
States Maps Content Package
• Includes 216 still images
Appropriate for Grades K-12
Package includes 216 color
maps of the United States,
with general reference
features such as boundaries,
cities, capitals, major
highways, rivers and lakes, and
terrain.
Additional Content
IRC: History Pictures
Content Package
• Includes over 7,500+ Still Images
Appropriate for grades 7-12,
with many images appropriate for
K-6 Includes over 7,500 still
images of a wide range of
historical subjects in the areas of
World History, Western
Civilizations, and American
History as well as 160+ primary
source audio files.
Paintings by the Masters Image
Package
• Includes 1,084 still images
Appropriate for grades K-12
Package includes paintings from
six master artists: Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Edgar Degas, Edouard
Manet, Paul Cezanne, Vincent
Van Gogh, Claude Monet
Additional Content
Schlessinger Media Image
Library
• Includes 2,500+ still images
Appropriate for grades K-12
Package includes historic,
geographic and cultural sites
from around the world.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Photographs
• Includes 1222 still images
Appropriate for Grades K-12
Package includes 1,222
remarkable photographs of
birds and plants as well as
pictures of other creatures
such as invertebrates, reptiles,
amphibians, fish and
mammals from the U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service.
Additional Content
Coming in December 2012
Hundreds of additional titles will be added to SAFARI
Montage in December 2012 from the finest educational
publishers such as:
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Ambrose Video Publishing
Disney Educational Productions
BBC
National Geographic
VEA
Media Rich Learning
Learning ZoneXpress
SAFARI Montage CreationStation®
and your Learning Object Repository
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Audio
MP3, M4A
DOCUMENT
Adobe® Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Apple® iWork® Keynote® (.key)
Apple iWork Numbers® (.numbers)
Apple iWork Pages® (.pages)
Microsoft® Excel® (.xls, .xlsx)
Microsoft PowerPoint® (.ppt, .pptx)
Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
OpenOffice.org® (.odt, .ods, .odg, .odf, .odp)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
StarOffice® (.sdw, .sdc, .sdd, .sdp)
Text (.txt)
NEW 4.2 WEBLINKS
Any URL Addresses
IMAGE
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JPEG, GIF and Bitmap
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INTERACTIVE
Adobe Flash® (.swf)
VIDEO
Adobe Flash Video (.flv)
H.264 (MPEG-4, Part 10/AVC)
MPEG-1 Video File (.mpg)
MPEG-4 Part 2 (.mp4)
QuickTime® Movie (.mov)
Windows Media® Video (.wmv)
EBOOK
NEW 4.3 EPUB® (epub)
NEW 4.3 Microsoft Reader (.lit)
WHITEBOARD
Promethean® Flipchart (.flp, .flipchart)
Promethean Resource Pack (.as3a)
SMART Notebook (.xbk, .notebook)
NEW 5.0 Hitachi® StarBoard® (.yar)
NEW 5.0 eInstruction® Workspace™ (.gwb)
Digital Curriculum
CLASS VIEW – GET IT?™
iPad and iPhone Apps
The Future
• SAFARI Montage is the primary learning
system for many leading districts
• Content still rules with proper collection
development and management
• More student engagement
• More system integration
• What is your role?
Collaborate
• Mark Galpern
• Mgalpern@safarimontage.com
• www.safarimontagehdnetwork.com