I have to admit to myself (and you) that I just can’t put together cogent, well thought out blogposts when I’m caught up in the swirl of a conference like NECC. Keynotes, debates, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, chance encounters, vendor visits, old friends, new friends… I think I just need to serve things up as [...]
I have to admit to myself (and you) that I just can’t put together cogent, well thought out blogposts when I’m caught up in the swirl of a conference like NECC. Keynotes, debates, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, chance encounters, vendor visits, old friends, new friends… I think I just need to serve things up as [...]
Wednesday, July 1, is a big day for the DEN in SL! First, there will be a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session at NECC conducted by several team members from the DEN in SL Leadership Council. The session is completely full, but you can still participate in-world and show your support for educators in [...]
Discovery Education Back to School Updates Discover the undiscovered and explore the new content and functionality for the 2009-2010 school year. All STAR DEs now have the option to access the beta version of Discovery Education’s new content and functionality. You can access the new site by clicking on the “Try the new Site” link at the [...]
Image via CrunchBase Can anyone keep up with Twitter? On a normal Twitter day, my PLN is always busy, but during NECC, well, the outage amps up and flies faster than double ground-strike lightning. From the folks at Common Craft collaborating with members of their Explainer Network, SayItVisually, comes a cool video, Skype Explained Visually. [...]
Whenever DEN STARS meet, you know you are learning with some of the best in the educational technology business. At our DEN LC Symposium at Discovery Headquarters, and the Pre-NECC DEN Birthday Party, Lisa Parisi was part of the the Leadership Council buzz. A super STAR, a team player, and NY DEN’s LC member, Lisa [...]
Jump in and join the two backchannels live blogging of the NECC Debate, Oxford style with ISTE or Kristin Hokanson’s “Brick and Mortar Schools are Detrimental to Education.” Lively chats with incredible commentary. When the debate is finished, please take a moment to take our short poll. Are “bricks and mortar” detrimental to education?(survey software) [...]
We’re at the LC conference in Maryland and are busy planning our events calendar for 2009. Email me at karenwells@ymail.com if there are any events you would like to see us plan for the upcoming year. New Comment
PA DEN LC’s own Bridget Belardi presented Library Smackdown today at NECC. <a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=d70ac9aa32″ >Library Smackdown</a> Library 2.o Smackdown Resources.
Thanks to Christine Southard‘s post on the NY DEN blog, you can access ISTE‘s livestreaming at NECC. Don’t let the first image fool you; go to the second for streaming.
Not at NECC? Me neither, but if wishes were llamas, I’d have a flock of them. If you want to tap into the wonderful world of DEN resources–and you missed Steve Dembo’s Top 10 Web 2.0 tools–no problem. We have it for you on-demand. Warning: watching Dembo definitely supercharges your morning, making him your Starbucks [...]
I posted this at my person on my personal blog as well, but thought this would also be a great place to share a few of my thoughts about the second day of the DEN LC. For me, attending conferences is always a lot of fun. The sessions are usually very good, the venue is [...]
For all of you who we had the pleasure of meeting today, thank you very much for joining us for the NECC Pre-Con. Click here for the Roundtrip Tickets to Anywhere presentation that I shared with you. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have questions. Also, please leave me a comment with the wonderful [...]
I spent a great day in Flagler County, Florida, with some innovative, eager teachers. Mostly Mac based, they are excited about bringing their students’ content creation skills into curriculum-based videos from DES and the free chromakey tools on the Mac, such as Photobooth and iMovie 9. Both will let students put themselves into videos and [...]
DEN Pre-Conference
Thanks to our friends at mimio for outfitting our breakout presentation rooms with mimio systems and slates. I’m psyched to be presenting with mimio’s interactive whiteboard system and Notebook application. We are gathering at Discovery’s headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, for a day of learning and networking. Here are the takeaway resources for my breakout sessions. Power Up [...]
Greetings Blogosphere! It’s Your Friendly Assessment Nerd, Porter reporting live from Discovery headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. I am here with 60 of the 225 members (from 34 states) of the DENLC. This is my first time interacting with these folks, so this is how they were described to me before coming here. “Porter, there [...]
Enjoy the weekly update for June 26, 2009.
Part of the fun of being a STAR DEN member at a LC Symposium (or any other Discovery event) — the prizes. No other organization gives you tomorrow’s tools today, and nowhere will you find a greater group of people. So, yesterday evening, after our luau-themed dinner event, we played DEN-GO (DEN’s version of Bingo, [...]
Retooling the STAR DEN application process makes it easier to become a STAR as an opt-in member. In the past, the process was designed to be open but do things, so the prospective member knows this is a service organization. Enter a retool to be a STAR DISCOERY EDUCATOR. You can find a DEN STAR [...]
Discovery Education LC Symposium
Day 2 of Den Leadership Council Symposium Follow us here http://dmantz7.edublogs.org/cover-it-live/ Agenda for today: What is DEN? New Application Process Building an Event Regional teams Sharing Lunch (regional) 2DP at 1DP STAR Adventures Closing More information to follow!
Day one at the LC was focused quite a bit on improving the Leadership Council’s for each of the states. We spent quite a bit of time discussing ways to get more organized and what the roles are for each of the LC positions. One of the things that I really liked was the breakout [...]
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