The new DEN HQ tower was home to tonight’s workshop featuring QAvimator, the free app that allows you to create animations for your avatar. Around 30 avatars sat around the circle as Celestia Cazalet (cough, cough – ME) walked them through the very basics of using the program. Celestia warned everyone that working with this [...]
ICE CALL FOR PROPOSALS Illinois Computing Educators (ICE) needs you to share your talents at the ICE conference “Connecting to the Wolrd of Tomorrow” February 24- 27, 2009 to be held at Pheasant Run Resort and Conference Center in St. Charles. Workshop acceptances will be notified in Sept, 2008, General Session and Poster Sessions acceptances [...]
This post was actually just an example of how to embed objects into the DEN blogs, but since some people enjoyed it, I’ll leave it up!
WOW!! The National Institute for DEN STAR educators is this week in Silver Springs, MD at Discovery’s Headquarters! The Institute is PHENOMINAL!! What a treat – from Hall Davidson’s amazing tips for adding media/streaming into Google Earth to Steve Dembo’s animated keynote on the wonderful, free social networking, video broadcasting, & web 2.0 resources (such [...]
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Registration is now open for the Annual NJAET EdTech Conference. Click here to register & Click here for workshop session descriptions. New Jersey Association for Educational Technology 21st NJAET Annual Conference 21 Years of Growing Up Digitally Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Georgian Court University Lakewood, NJ Earn 5 Hours of Professional Development Conference Fee Registration [...]
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After Day 2 of the DEN National Institute, I can only second the excitement and AWE you read in Dani’s blog! Today THE Hall Davidson started us out with a presentation on using cell phones in education and he shared so many websites and information, I was pumped from that first hour! Then the rest [...]
It’s week two of the DEN National Institutes! There are five lucky people from Michigan there. They worked with teachers from Illinois and also did the Boom-de-Ya-Da video, modeled after the Discovery Commercial. Enjoy!
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Attention New York Tri-State Area Educators! Free Resource & PD Event! Day of Discovery In Partnership with Cablevision’s Power to Learn August 12, 2008 Join us for an engaging technology-infused full day professional development event focused on creative ways to use digital media in the classroom. Learn techniques to inspire your students and maximize [...]
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