Lucas Rodriguez’ Blog

Ok, I have never been so excited to get to school and check out my email and log on to Discovery. 

As I click on the National Blog I see some very exciting news.

Today we celebrate DEN Teacher Appreciation Week with two special treats for our STARs.

A Special Offer from LabelDaddy
Now every STAR can get stuck on LabelDaddy with a 20% discount.

If you post a comment to this blog telling us three words that summarize the DEN to you we’ll give you a shot at a $50 gift card every hour

Our friends at Tech4Learning wanted to celebrate with us today so they donated fifty copies of Frames.

Frames is the award winning educational software for stop-motion animation, claymation, and digital storytelling. Creating illustrated animations, movies, and digital stories engages students in the curriculum, encourages problem solving, promotes creativity, and helps students develop 21st century skills. Students can use Frames to create movies, animated GIFs, and Flash animations to share with the world.

For a chance to win, just post a comment to this blog telling us three words that summarize the DEN to you.  We will announce the lucky winners of Frames at the end of the day.

Ok, so I try and summarize what DEN means to me in 3 words.  HA HA  Well, I used my three words and kept my fingers crossed. 

I was not one of the lucky winners for the gift from LabelDaddy, but I find out while watching DVR episodes of “24″ that I won the Frames. 

Yippie!!

Thanks again Discovery.

Onto Day 4

Today was another great day to be a DEN Star Educator.

I looked on the DEN site today and what do I see?

For National DEN Teacher Appreciation Day we have decided to give all of our STARs:

• 80,000 video segments
• 284 explorations
• 39 virtual labs
• 19 Fun-damentals
• 72 interactive videos
• 20 simulations
• 527 animations
• 459 eBooks
• 161 games
• 167 skill builders
• 466 songs
• 3,000 sound effects
• and more!

All STAR Discovery Educators can now explore the resources in DE streaming Plus (which includes the unbelievable LIFE series), DE Science for Elementary, DE Science for Middle School and DE Health for 90 days

Very nice.  THANK YOU again Discovery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I appreciate everything.

Luke

Ok, here is the story.  I get to school on what I think will be a very wild Monday.  We had lots going on at school today.  My team partner was gone today to take care of some family issues and the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teams had a behavior party for our kids a the local nature center.  So needless to say I was a little busy. 

So when I finally, check my email and see that I get an email from my friendly KS DEN Leaders.  The subject line is DEN Appreciation Week Day 1. 

It looks like DEN and Prezi are working together to give away the educator pro version of Prezi (a $59 value) for one year. 

I am not sure if you have seen Prezi or not, but I really love it.  I have not had as much time to mess with it as I would like, but I know for sure this will really help.

A big THANKS to DEN and Prezi.

Welcome to my new DEN blog!

This is my first post.

I finally got in gear and turned in my STAR Teacher application.  I was approved today.  Now I have some work to do.