Witness the world’s most elusive creatures and unforgettable places for the first time. Filmed in over 200 locations, some for the last time. Planet Earth is a high definition television event five years in the making. As a STAR Discovery Educator, you have a chance to be one of the first people in the world [...]
Since posting the DEN leadership council intro last week, I’ve been asked a few times how I embedded the PowerPoint presentation in the blog (it was easy, you can do it too). I thought that would make a great topic for the next post, but Steve Dembo beat me to it. So, rather than reinventing [...]
I was just talking with a few DEN members over dinner last night at METC about how students are spending so much time on social networking websites and how few educators there are who use them. So my question to you today is, what social networking websites are you on? Do you actually use them? [...]
It appears that Wikipedia, the often maligned and misunderstood experiment in democratic collaborative intelligence, is undergoing some serious metacognitive reflection. Two essays have appeared on Wikipedia that attempt to assess the efficacy of this experiment: Wikipedia is failing Wikipedia in not failing The articles are a fascinating self-assessment. As intriguing as the essays are the [...]
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