Discovery+Streaming

McKinney ISD subscribes to Discovery Education streaming media and digital collection. With Discovery Education you have the ability to download the video resources. You can then use these videos on the iPod, in SMART Notebook, or link them in your wiki or Glogster. SMART Video Player enables you play a video from Discovery Education on your interactive screen and write notes over it in digital ink. Press the SMART Board icon in the notification area, and then select Video Player.

To play a video file
Press File > Open in SMART Video Player, browse to and select the video file that you want to play, and then press Open. OR Press File > Open URL in SMART Video Player, type the address of the website or the network path in the Open box, and then press OK. The video file opens and plays in SMART Video Player.

To pause the video
Press Pause.

To start the video
Press Play.

To stop the video
Press Stop.

To change the playback speed
Select Settings > Playback Speed, and then select a playback speed from the list. NOTE: To play the video continuously, press Repeat. To stop playing the video continuously, press Repeat again.

To write notes over the video frame in digital ink
TIP: You can [|configure SMART Video Player] to pause the video when you select Pen Tool.
 * 1) Press Pen Tool [[image:http://onlinehelp.smarttech.com/english/windows/help/notebook/10_0_0/Images/VPPenTool.png width="32" height="28"]], and then write on the interactive screen.
 * 1) To change the color of the digital ink, press Pen Color [[image:http://onlinehelp.smarttech.com/english/windows/help/notebook/10_0_0/Images/VPPenColor.png width="32" height="28"]], and then select a color from the palette.
 * 2) To change the width of the digital ink, press Pen Width [[image:http://onlinehelp.smarttech.com/english/windows/help/notebook/10_0_0/Images/VPPenWidth.png width="32" height="28"]], and then select a width in the list.
 * 3) After you finish writing, press Select [[image:http://onlinehelp.smarttech.com/english/windows/help/notebook/10_0_0/Images/VPSelect.png width="32" height="28"]].

To clear your notes
Press Clear the Notes.

To take a screen capture of the current video frame
Press Capture to Notebook.

To expand the video display
Select Full Screen View. The video display expands to the largest possible area and the Video Player toolbar appears. This toolbar enables you to play and pause videos, take screen captures of the current video frame, write notes over the video frame in digital ink and clear your notes. To exit Full Screen view, press Normal View. NOTE: If your computer's video card doesn't support hardware acceleration, you're unable to change the view to 200% or Full Screen.

To change the volume
To change the volume, move the slider. To mute the volume, press Mute Video. To restore the volume, press Mute Video again.

To close SMART Video Player
Press the Close button in SMART Video Player.