Greetings everyone I would like to introduce myself to the PA Blog readers. I am Robin Martin and am joining RJ Stangherlin in updating the PA DEN blog. This seems like a tough act since it was just a DENny Award winner! I have been in teaching for 33 years including time as a health [...]
Hi All As the school year is quickly coming to an end we need your input. Please post a reply to this blog with some fun summer event ideas!
Guest Blogger: William Kennington, junior, SHS Last week, on May 27, 2009, four groups at Salisbury High School in Allentown, PA presented their Integrated Project. IP is year-long endeavor for students who enroll in the courses of AP US History and Honors English 11. IP is a research-based project that incorporates a final multi-media presentation [...]
Join us Wednesday night as Smellslike Magic (Mike Bryant – DEN Manager RL) presents, “Discover the UnDiscovered”. We’ll get a quick look at recent additions to Discovery Education streaming and a preview of the many exciting additions happening this summer. As always, 5 p.m. SLT (7 p.m. CST, 8 p.m. EST)
We were lucky to have two geocaching events in the state of Michigan on Saturday, May 30. Six people met up to celebrate Geocaching Day 2009 in Battle Creek, MI. We met at our brand new Panera Bread, and walked through the basics of Geocaching. Everyone was anxious to get out of there, and begin [...]
DEN Pre-NECC Extravaganza Join us on June 27, 2009 (9 AM to 3:30 PM) for an engaging day of networking, professional development and fun at the world headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, MD. And, it’s FREE! You can get you og on, and learn many new and exciting ways to integrate Discovery products [...]
I think I have a new favorite show on the Science Channel: Science of the Movies Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. It looks like it’s going to focus mostly on high tech F/X but I think we can borrow a few ideas for our students’ videos. Last week’s premiere episode featured a couple of neat [...]
Nine STAR Discovery Educators were recently selected to take the trip of a lifetime through the Discovery Student Adventures program. Our first crew is already in Australia and the team going to South Africa leaves next week. Let’s meet our STAR adventurers. Australia (May 25 – June 7) Follow their adventure Jennifer Jensen (Douglas County, [...]
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