What is KOCE Classroom?

KOCE Classroom is a consortium of Orange County schools that have joined together to purchase rights for video-based programming created specifically for classroom teaching.

KOCE broadcasts high quality educational programming from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday through the school year. This allows teachers who have access to cable television to tape a variety of special series and programs off-air. KOCE Classroom also schedules a variety of live and interactive programs that offer students and teachers the opportunity to participate in "real-time" events.

Membership to KOCE Classroom also includes streaming and download rights for Discovery Education Streaming Video, an online resource that includes over 5,000 standards based videos, thousands of still images, speeches, articles, lesson plans and other resources to supplement instruction in the classroom.

Free Staff Development
Member schools receive free in-service training to guide teachers in the effective integration of technology in the classroom. A variety of different seminars and staff development workshops are available. Workshops can be designed to meet your objectives and range in length according to school schedules.

Monthly Newsletter
Each month, member schools are sent a KOCE Classroom newsletter filled with upcoming events, special broadcasts, new media resources, and other exciting information for teacher using educators.

Membership Fees
To become a member of KOCE Classroom, it costs schools $1.05 per year ($400 minimum) if an entire district joins or $1.35 per student ($400) if an individual school joins. This fee covers KOCE curriculum broadcasts during the school week, access to stream and download from Discovery Education Streaming, teacher training, and the monthly newsletter. Purchasing just one video series from a distributor usually costs several hundred dollars, while it costs less than $1000 for an average size elementary school to join KOCE Classroom. A KOCE Classroom membership is truly a cost-effective way for schools to build a rich instructional media collection.

Teacher Training

Class Offerings
Schools that are members of KOCE Classroom receive free training for teachers, including:

KOCE and Discovery Streaming: Your Highly Engaging Alternative
to a Non-Visual Classroom
You have access to over 5,000 videos, thousands of images, articles, speeches, and resources through KOCE Classroom and Discovery. Now what? Learn what's available and see how easy it is to enhance your classroom instruction. This is truly the "first thing to make teaching easier and better since crayons."

KOCE and Discovery Streaming: Engaging Alternative Part Two
Discovery Streaming has new products available for classrooms including the Science, Health, and Media Share. Learn about the exciting additions and enhancements to Discovery streaming and find out how these additional resources can engage your students and support your classroom instruction.

Digital Storytelling
Take students stories to the next level! Engage your students as storytellers by using computer based tools to create digital projects. Teachers will learn how to create low-tech alternatives for digital storytelling in their classrooms as well as free and easy Web 2.0 tools that enhance digital storytelling for students.

Copyright and Fair Use: What's Fair for Use in the Classroom?
Take the mystery out of Copyright and Fair Use and learn what you can and cannot use in the classroom. What you may not realize is that Fair use allows you to use the best of all possible resources for teaching and learning as long as its for face to face instruction and educational purposes. Take this class and learn how to best serve your students and protect yourself by understanding the Fair Use provision of Copyright Law.

Links

• California Student Media Festival • Schoolhouse Video
• Copyright for Educators Series •Classroom Media Resources

How are you using video in school?
We want to hear about it! Email KOCE Classroom (jannunzio@koce.org) and tell us about how you are using video in your classroom and/or the specific video project you are working on. Give us details and your project may be featured on our website!