Clarissa Bennett, speech pathologist at Round Top Elementary School in Richland School District Two On Thursday, January 26, StreamlineSC , ETV’s free video–on–demand streaming service available to all teachers and students in SC, received its 1,000,000th view.

Clarissa Bennett’s class at Round Top Elementary School in Blythewood took the honors.

What had Bennett and her class logged on to see, from the more than 40,000 standards– approved video clips they had to choose from? — a snippet from Junior Oceanographer: Oceans, Weather, and Climate.

“ETV StreamlineSC has been an invaluable tool for instruction.  The videos help students to visualize the subject matter, offering being there experiences for children while in the classroom,” comments school speech pathologist, Clarissa Bennett.  “This allows for better understanding of the content, creating relevancy for the students. Since I work with students from all grade levels, I enjoy the opportunity to look up videos based on state standards, subject matter, or by my instructional goals. It is a great way to reach auditory and visual learners while enhancing the lesson!"

Now, the Roundtop Elementary School family awaits their grand prize, courtesy of ETV and Discovery Education, in recognition of this accomplishment.

Sometime within the next few weeks, an ETV vehicle will roll up to the front door of Round Top and ETV staffers will greet the excited kids with an Infocus LCD projection monitor (all the better to see StreamlineSC with!). A special celebration with goodies galore will punctuate the day for the students, faculty and staff at Round Top Elementary.

Dean Byrd, director of distance learning at ETV said, “When we kicked off StreamlineSC a little over one year ago, we knew we had a wonderful service that teachers and students would love. The fact that StreamlineSC has received its 1,000,000th hit in such a short period of time, tells us we were right.”

StreamlineSC was developed through a partnership with Discovery Education, the State Department of Education and the SC K–12 Technology Initiative. Additional information about StreamlineSC is listed below:

• 100% of all 85 school districts are utilizing StreamlineSC

• This includes over 712,000 students in 1088 public schools, 50 private schools and 50 home schools

• 4,000 digital videos, chaptered into 40,000 clips, and 16,000 high resolution images are available for download 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

• 320 of the 4,000 videos are ETV productions, which include SC history, foreign language, and instructional programs (in French, Spanish and German) for students, and professional development programs for teachers created by ETV and the State Department of Education

• Teachers can easily access the correlating state curriculum standard for each video clip

• 2,500 teachers, media specialists and school officials have undergone the free training provided by ETV, and thousands more have been introduced to StreamlineSC at conferences and other presentations

• 35 Distance Education Learning Centers (DELCs) are currently being trained to add local videos, such as school board meetings, events and more.

For more information about the program, please contact Dana McCullough at 803-737-3212, or dmccullough@scetv.org.