Teachers’ Domain UpdateCLEAN, June 8, 2010

About Teachers’ Domain

What is Teachers’ Domain?

• free education portal for teachers, students, and PTV stations

• NSDL Pathway

• provides content and features teachers value

• PTV stations can brand and customize

Recent metrics

nearly 500,000 registered users

in all 50 states and 192 countries,

representing over 78% of K-12 schools

and 10% of US teachers,

generating more than 5,730,000 monthly

page views!

What teachers think

1800+ teachers surveyed in April 2010:

Top ways they use TD:1. show media to the entire class 2. adapt a lesson plan 3. use discussion questions, teaching tips, or frame-focus-follow-up4. use a student activity (self-paced lesson)

Existing features they most value: 1. discussion questions, teaching tips, frame-focus-follow-up 2. ability to save resources in folders3. standards correlations 4. background essays

Their favorite new features (coming by Fall 2010):1. full-screen video2. find resources by standards3. save and submit answers in self-paced lessons4. create linked student accounts5. Find other teachers through profiles6. make your folders and groups available through your profile

Local branding partners

Over 35 PTV stations are Teachers’ Domain partners

Resource page

Custom editions

Custom editions

Adding content through the TD CMS

New front-end features

New front-end features:

• Full-screen video player

• Redesigned with larger, more flexible pages

• Browse by standards and expanded standards correlations

• User content upload

• Enhanced, searchable user profiles

• Linked student-teacher, and teacher-teacher accounts

• Ability to save your work in self-paced lessons and submit to linked accounts

• Group work folders

Climate-related content

Climate-related content already on TD:

• Earth science resources and lesson plans (with DLESE)

• Polar sciences collection (IPY)—resources, lesson plan, and student activity

• Alaska Native Perspectives on Earth and Climate—resources, lesson plans, student activities

• Where Words Touch the Earth (NASA, Tribal Colleges)—resources, lesson plan, teacher activity

• Speaking Your Mind About Global Warming—student video production activity

• Other resources, see topic areas

Upcoming content

Content in production:

CPB project (1200+ assets)

• WGBH, ThinkTV, and Wisconsin ECB (33 media resources)

• Other CPB grantees (LPB, MPT, Nebraska ETV, KQED, UEN, WOSU)

Environmental Public Health• Impacts of climate change

Advanced Technological Education• Green technology careers

Where Words Touch the Earth 2• Additional Native perspectives

Questions and discussion

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