Teaching New Tricks

... ¶ Last year, [Laura] Brown, a media specialist for Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, signed up for unitedstreaming, ... Discovery's subscription-based, Internet-delivered video streaming application. Through unitedstreaming, teachers and students can view video clips that range in length from 30 seconds to 20 minutes and cover subjects from cell division to sexually transmitted diseases. The clips are categorized by state education standards and are searchable. ¶ Brown was so impressed with unitedstreaming's offerings, she trained more than 200 teachers and students at her school to use it. She also touted the product at a professional conference and in library journal articles. "I can't say enough good things" about unitedstreaming, she said in a telephone interview. ... Washington Post TechNews.com link