Did you know that as a STAR Discovery Educator, you get your very own personal blog here at blog.discoveryeducation.com? You can use it as a personal blog, for your classroom, to document your learning, to share ideas with other educators, the possibilities are endless! Of course, it doesn’t do you any good at all if [...]
Below is an article from the Asbury Park Press about one of my students: To make a donation to A Brush with Greatness, e-mail stayce1219@aol.com. APP March 25, 2008 Melanie Lauro of Manalapan has grown up hearing her mom extol the virtues of good oral hygiene … so much so that she sometimes got tired [...]
Those who know me know I love to shop. I wouldn’t call it an addiction, but obsession would be okay. Shopping got me into S.L. where I could buy clothes virtually. Now the DEN has opened an online store where I can get lots of items with the DEN logo that I don’t need, but [...]
I know what you’ve been thinking… “I’m really proud of being a member of the Discovery Educator Network. But how do I show that off when I’m walking through the airport? Or going to the gym? Or just hanging around in the teachers lounge? Or performing a science experiment?” Well, have we got an answer [...]
Hopefully by now, you have noticed our Young Scientist Challenge for 5th through 8th graders open until June 15th. But maybe you don’t know that there is also an “Old” Scientist Challenge going on at the same time for science teachers who are DEN members. Forget the students! Put your own 1 to 2 minute [...]
The DEN Weekly Update for March 21, 2008. Enjoy!
What kind of Earth will your grandchildren’s grandchildren grow up in? Act Locally; Share Globally! Come join the 24-hour long conversation about the health of our planet. Participants will be from around the world. Special guests include local leaders, student environmental advocates, scientists, engineers, and people like you who are interested in helping to make [...]
Congratulations to our newest STAR member, Krista Hanna. Krista is a 6th grade teacher from Walled Lake. She is now eligible to apply for one of the DEN National Institutes. She also has other benefits of being a STAR member. Welcome, Krista!
Hello NY DEN Members! A new web 2.0/social networking application has arrived and you need to head on over to Shelfari to check it out! Shelfari is a social media site focused around books, and will continue to innovate as it brings together the world’s readers. There are many teachers who have migrated to the [...]
Cross-posted on Cliotech. In the summer of 2006 (at a Discovery Educator Network regional institute) I created an account with 43 Things. Will Richardson had highlighted 43 Things during his keynote presentation. At the time, I thought it was a really interesting way to connect with people who were traveling the sames paths and working [...]
Did We Just Witness a Twitter Marriage Proposal? via kwout A few days ago, lthumann inspired me to get back to twittering (Thanks, Lisa!) and I’m so glad I did How else would I have heard about what could be the next trend in marriage proposals? Where will twitter bring us next? This quickly got [...]
I don’t know about you, but I bookmark things in del.icio.us, put my videos on YouTube, photos on Flickr, share my quick thoughts on Twitter, and then blog at Teach42 and here, and really that’s just the short list of where I’m maintaining a presence online. It’s hard enough for me to keep track of, [...]
I don’t know about you, but I bookmark things in del.icio.us, put my videos on YouTube, photos on Flickr, share my quick thoughts on Twitter, and then blog at Teach42 and here, and really that’s just the short list of where I’m maintaining a presence online. It’s hard enough for me to keep track of, [...]
There are a ton of ways to send files. There are plenty of other ways to stash files so that people can grab them. However, I don’t think there’s any other site out there that is quite as accessible as Drop.io When you register for an account with Drop.io, you get a website where you [...]
How do you keep track of all the resources you download from the web? The videos, the photos, the clip art, pdfs, etc. Maybe you start a word processing document and put the citation there. But that really takes time and can easily get separated from the resource. Here’s a very simple way. Let’s use [...]
Congratulations, Discovery Education Assessment, on being selected as one of the top software products of the year. These choices were made by actual users of the products, by people who have discovered what we are living every day: the more we know about how are students are learning, the better our instruction be tailored to [...]
Schools in Florida are currently busy selecting the Core Curriculum Reading Program that will help us teach reading to a diverse population for the next 6 years. Most of the programs on the state’s approved program list offer benchmark assessments 3 or 4 times per year. If you have had experience with benchmark assessments from [...]
The DEN in SL Wednesday Workshop series continued this evening with a hugely popular and very informative session presented by Discovery Education’s own Steve Dembo (Demb Oh in SL). A large crowd gathered in the amphitheater set up for the occasion and learned about several ways to bridge communications between real life and Second Life. [...]
EduIsland II will be hosting their first annual “Open Day” this Saturday, March 22. Here’s the press release: “Squirrelverse, the operator of the leading Second Life educational islands EduIsland II and Eduisland 5, is pleased to announce today that on Saturday 22 March 2008 the islands will be hosting their Annual Open Day. Commencing at 10am PST [...]
I spent an hour with Steve Dembo, who presented in Second Life for the first time. He spoke about how to bridge real life and Second Life. Here is a photo I took while at the presentation. That’s me with the Discovery jean jacket!
Just wanted to make a quick shout out to all the SC DEN members…and anyone else reading this What have you done with Discovery OR technology & education lately? Comment here and let us know what is going on in your school/district. I’ll start… Last week, my district had a pre-conference event for SCASL 2008. [...]
You know… every now and then it is a good idea to check your Spam Email folder. After the DEN NY visit to the Computer Show and the IMAX theater we collected spare change to donate on behalf of school children. We sent an email requesting that our donation go towards school children in the [...]
I feel like I’m always talking about the next ‘latest and greatest’ webinar, but it’s really because we have such a phenomenal schedule lined up for all of you! Next week, the EdTechConnect series is going to feature Anastasia Goodstein, author of the book Totally Wired and the Ypulse weblog. She has been featured in [...]
The DEN National Institute will occur at Discovery’s global headquarters in Silver Spring, MD from July 21-25, 2008. The week before, July 14-18, 2008, there will be the DEN Leadership Council Institute (also in Silver Spring, MD). Up to 100 STARs will be invited to attend the DEN National Institute and 50 leadership council members [...]
Hi All- Can anyone tell me about Curriculum-Based Measurement? As I’m looking at the articles on CBM, it looks like RTI. Are we using CBM for RTI? Don’t you hate people who use education jargon and acronyms???? Lynn
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