UPDATE: Wow! We originally planned for 25 people to attend our Best Buy Digital Photography DEN Event. Due to such extreme demand and popularity, Best Buy has agreed to allow us to take FORTY participants! You’d better sign up fast. The first 25 slots are already gone! Yep, that’s right. Our next TN DEN training [...]
Are you looking for the next “best read” to top your Shelfari list? How about a great video challenge connected to a great book? Want to meet the author and discuss the work? Does a college scholarship–or its equivalent for further education–entice you? What if I told you students and teachers could participate. Are you [...]
Discovery Educator Network – Grown Up Digital Book Club! Thank you for your interest in joining the DEN’s Grown Up Digital Book Club! The club will take place over a two month period and will feature both live and web based options for collaboration. The live component will take place Monday evenings, 2/9 through 3/23 [...]
I received a request for information about how teachers are using DE streaming to make the Civil War come alive for their students. Who better to ask than the awesome Discovery Educators? We would very much appreciate your feedback on this Google Form. I will post the results once we gather some feedback. PS – [...]
METC 2009 was a winter wonderland. Snow happens in the Midwest and it hit on both days of the conference. Despite the weather the conference went great. Enjoyed dinner at Lewis & Clark’s with a wonderful group of educators. All braved the snowy conditions to join us. We even had to push our rental car [...]
Enjoy your DEN weekly update for 1-30-09.
I’m very excited to announce that the DEN will be participating in the next global collaborative project that Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay are creating! You can read the entire announcement below, but here’s a quick summary: 1) Don Tapscott, the author of Grown Up Digital, is hosting a video challenge right now with the [...]
One of the new activity areas at the conference is the PLN Plaza, a place to expand your own personal learning network. Scott Meech is one of the organizers of this space and he has shared the following description: Are you a blogger? Do you use Twitter, Plurk, Ning, Facebook, MySpace, Listservs, or any other [...]
WE NEED ECO-HEROES TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET! Are Your Students Up for the Challenge? Now through March 15, 2009 , middle school students can “go green” and team up for the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge , the first and only national K-12 sustainability education initiative aligned to education standards. Prizes for [...]
From the NY DEN blog: Come on out and join the New York DEN Leadership Council and DEN educators from across the New York Tri-State area for a mental workout at Discovery’s NYC headquarters on Friday, February 6th as we connect with the Discovery Health Channel for a f2f meet and greet. Stretch your mind [...]
I remember when I turned 30. It struck me that I was learning to drive the year that the current freshmen were born. I couldn’t dunk a basketball at will anymore (though I like to think I had the good sense not to). We had started a family and number two was on his way. [...]
If you had a chance to attend one of the webinars discussing what is coming up for the DEN in 2009, you know there are a lot of exciting new programs coming our way! One of them is the national institute this summer. If you have ever been to a national institute, you know that [...]
DEN PETE&C PreConference Agenda View more documents or upload your own. (tags: den pete&c) den-precon-petec-09-draft-agenda.pdf
The 11th Annual ASSET Educational Technology Conference will be taking place on Monday, March 16th, 2009 from 7:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Huntington Hilton, Melville, NY.
Come on out and join the New York DEN Leadership Council and DEN educators from across the New York Tri-State area for a mental workout at Discovery’s NYC headquarters on Friday, February 6th as we connect with the Discovery Health Channel for a f2f meet and greet. Stretch your mind not your budget as we [...]
Had a great time presenting at METC. With over 6 inches of snow during the two days the cab ride in was a little scary, and we had fun pushing the car up the hill after our DEN dinner. The sponsors from CSD were tremendous and I cannot thank them enough for considering me when [...]
Tell Us What Inspires You Find Out How You Could Win More Than $22,000 in Prizes Invention starts with inspiration and that’s where great teachers play a part. Discovery Education is proud to partner with the Ad Council in support of their Inspiring Invention contest. Together with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the [...]
FETC 2012! Here, now! Not really, but at FETC 2009 I was asked to do the closing keynote with a projection into 2012– fun challenge. (I’ll put that presentation online eventually.) It was the opportunity to try something new. So the way this big show (7,000+ folks) closed was with videos made on the cellphones of [...]
FETC 2012! Here, now! Not really, but at FETC 2009 I was asked to do the closing keynote with a projection into 2012– fun challenge. (I’ll put that presentation online eventually.) It was the opportunity to try something new. So the way this big show (7,000+ folks) closed was with videos made on the cellphones of [...]
It may be a bit more time before all my impressions play themselves out in this blog but here are a couple of things that have stayed in the fore since I got home and got some rest. Apple and Full Sail University had a digital storytelling reception where current Full Sail students had [...]
We are gearing up for what will be another great DEN experience at TCEA. We’d like to recognize all the DEN STARs who will be presenting topics at the conference. If you will be presenting at TCEA, add a comment here telling us all what your topic is and when it will be.Let’s all be [...]
After tons of suggestions and much deliberation we have narrowed the location of this year’s DEN National Institute down to five possibilities. Cruise (San Diego to Mexico) Boston, MA Monterey, CA Las Vegas, NV Washington, D.C. Please take some time and vote for your favorite. The deadline to cast your vote is Friday, February 6, 2009.
That’s right, it’s that four letter word that makes educators happy…F-R-E-E. Back by popular demand, the fun and fabulous folks at ETV are bringing you technology workshops to help you learn the latest and greatest trends in educational technology. Donna, Debbie and Dean (the three D’s of education) have lined up 3-days for you and [...]
Join us for an engaging, technology-infused professional development workshop focused on creative ways to use digital media in the classroom. Learn techniques to inspire your students and maximize the resources from Discovery Education streaming. “50 Ways to Integrate DE Streaming” and “Extreme Makeover: Education Edition” are just a couple of the sessions that will be [...]
Greetings! VSTE is looking for a few good…Volunteers! Our conference has always benefited from the numerous folks in the past who have graciously given some of their time to make VSTE the best conference in the state. This year can we count on you for your help? We have changed the time slots so that [...]
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