Looking for ways to motivate your children and summer school students? Check out the free resources at Discovery Education’s Parent Corner including Motivation Station, Summer Activities and Step-by-step Webmath. A wealth of resources, tomorrow’s tools today! Discovery Education Parent Corner Educational Resources Assessment Remediation Summer School Turbo Tagger
If this post looks familiar, that’s because it was posted a few weeks ago as a weekly update. Next week begins a month of Discovery Education professional development, beginning at 11 AM Eastern time, for one hour Monday through Thursday. If you check the re-post below, you can register directly for the webinars you select [...]
Enjoy the DEN Weekly Update for July 31, 2009.
Recently, It seem that every time it is my week to contribute to this blog something crazy happens. The first time it was our email server going down. This time it was our phone system. On Monday, my office started the transition to a hosted VOIP phone system. We were expecting the phones to be [...]
Wednesday marked a banner day for the DEN in SL with the Wednesday Workshop topic: A Blended Virtual Ecosystem: North Carolina Virtual Public School’s Great Discovery in Second Life. The presentation was fantastic, with Dr. Brian Setser (Innovator Quan – SL), of the North Carolina Virtual Public School guiding the audience through the journey the [...]
For some maddening reason, WordPress seems to alter the code in the original post about immediate video inserts on any spot on the globe. Here are documents with the fix. Word document or .txt file. Copy and paste from here. The original post tells you more. This came up when we worked with the fabulous [...]
I am not sure what is cooler: sharing ten of my favorite websites with South Carolina educators or doing it in a television studio surrounded by cameras, lights and air tight doors! For those of you who enjoyed this venue with me this week, it was a pleasure meeting you and passing along some of [...]
Greetings Blogosphere! Did you know that the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) have joined, along with a number of other agencies to initiate a state-led process of developing (and adopting) a common core of state standards? Forty-six states plus the DC, Puerto [...]
Verona, Wisconsin educator and students prepare for a “trip of a lifetime” to China. Star Discovery Education member Rita A. Mortenson, from Verona, Wisconsin was selected as one of three teachers in the United States to participate in the China Discovery Student Adventures Pilot in 2009. Rita, a technology coordinator at Verona Area High School, [...]
Greetings Blogosphere! A classmate in my Differentiating Instruction course shared a cool link today and I thought I’d pass it along to you. Laura Cawley says, using Jeopardy “is a great way to prepare for a test or project, and get the students involved. It allows for several different categories, and the opportunity to work [...]
Hello all WI DEN Educators! The post below will also be delivered to you via email although Chad asked that as the WI DEN Chair I write a post on the blog. This was the information I really had to share so…. here it is again. As I prepared to put it also on the [...]
He was part of the Pennsylvania group that went to the DEN National Institute from July 13-17 at the Headlands Institute just north of San Francisco in the beautiful Golden Gate National Recreation Area. At the end of the Institute, Discovery Education raffled off a trip to China. Our man from PA, Adam Controy, was [...]
The Explore Africa Today webinar began at 2 PM with a virtual audience, joined by the live-event exploration of Africa at 3 PM. During the hour’s preparatory session, Steve Dembo provided us links that provided background insights and preparatory information to enhance our experience when the live expedition begins in the Republic of Benin. Five [...]
The DENs bio is, “Connecting teachers to their most valuable resource… Each other!” That ‘s what they do, and very well indeed. Now you can show your support for the Discovery Educator Network by adding a #twibbon to your avatar now! – http://bit.ly/AKL6s. It is so simple. You just scroll down to the bottom of [...]
My math friends tell me regularly, “It’s all about numbers.” Add survival to that with large doses of humor (you would need that) and multiple voices and what do you have? Were this a math problem, it might look like this: 5 + 2 fer + humor + survival = _____. And the answer would [...]
Next week begins the summer webinar series from Discovery. And they have picked a great line up for the first week! Digital Storytelling Week promises to be a fantastic first venture into a month of weekly themes. Here is the lineup for next week: Monday, August 3 – Thinking Outside the Slide Tuesday, August 4 [...]
Houston was the place to be on Saturday (7.25) as 55 educators from the Houston area arrived bright and early at Minute Maid park for a Day of Discovery. Following a ball park lunch (hot dogs!), the group was given a tour of the ball park that included a visit to the Diamond Club, the [...]
I didn’t attend, but heard a lot of great things about the Discovery Educator Network National Institute that was recently held. The DEN National Institute for 2009 took place from July 13-17 at the Headlands Institute just north of San Francisco in the beautiful Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Participants has the opportunity to connect [...]
An update from the SC DEN Leadership Chair: Hi SC DEN STARS! I hope everyone has had a restful and productive summer. The SC DEN Leadership Council is getting excited about the upcoming school year. StreamlineSC has added DE MediaShare and DE Health to the StreamlineSC resources. These will be great additions for all teachers [...]
The K-12 Online Conference is coming soon. This FREE (we love free) conference is a great way to learn about new tools, see how other educators use these tools, and find out about new teaching practices. There are archived videos to view and live elluminate sessions in which you can participate. But for now, [...]
Making the Dean’s List is every college student’s ambition. For those of us who have a few years between college and the workforce, we still remember with pride the kudos that came with making the Dean’s List. Now, however, everyone can be on The DEAN’s List. Meet Porter Palmer, creator of the DENs newest blog [...]
But before I spill those beans, I should you remind you about Digital Storytelling Week kicking off our back to school webinars. 8/3/09 Thinking Outside the Slide: Creating non-linear PowerPoint presentations and learning centers with Discovery Education Media 8/4/09 Digital Storytelling Made Easy: Using Discovery Education Content with Animoto and PhotoStory 8/5/09 Director’s Cut: Discovery [...]
If you have been bitten by the ibug, you are not alone. I finally needed a new phone and waited until the 3G was released in June to feed my gadget addiction. Yes it is true. I could not believe how simple it was to order it online, and have it arrive on time, and [...]
Reposted from the National Blog Couldn’t be at the DEN National Institute this year? Don’t worry, neither could I! But thanks to the efforts of Alice Mercer, I’ve been able to attend several sessions virtually. She has graciously shared links to the live streams of sessions done by Adam Frey (Wikispaces), Claudia L’Amoreaux (Linden Lab/Second [...]
Newly recruited TN DEN blog contributor Scott Merrick will be featured on next Tuesday’s episode of ISTE Eduverse Talks. This will be Scott’s second appearance in as many episodes on that popular Second Life bi-weekly talk show. The panel discussion show is hosted by another DENizen, Kevin Jarrett (KJ Hax in SL). This time Scott will [...]
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