In the past four years the Discovery Educator Network (DEN) has grown in many different ways including the variety of ways educators may participate in the community. You can be a Discovery Educator and participate in the online community. You can apply to become a STAR Discovery Educator and engage in both online and in-person [...]
On Saturday, October 24, 2009 join thousands of educators online and in-person as the DEN team goes house to house to explore the many digital treats available to educators today. During this unique professional development event, you have the flexibility to attend online or in-person at CLIU 21 (8:30 – 4 PM) hosted by the [...]
Recently, I was sharing one of my favorite web 2.0 resources, Wordle, with a group of teachers in the New Teacher Induction Class. A participant asked if I had made up the term web 2.0. Since the term is not new to me, it took me aback for a moment. It is important to realize [...]
Join the Iowa DEN for a webinar on the 6th to learn cool ways to incorporate DE streaming content into your lessons. I will be discussing unique web tools to use with the DE content. Some of the web tools I will discuss are: Prezi, Webspiration, Wordle, iWeb, Google Earth, DE Calendar, Photobooth, Quiz Builder, [...]
Greetings Blogosphere! One of the things I do as your friendly assessment nerd is train teachers on using the information from Discovery Education Assessment’s reports to improve instruction. I usually start by telling them places to get support and ways to join the community of folks who use Discovery Education. Well, a crew of fabulous [...]
Opportunity for Tennessee administrators and educators! Join Discovery Education for a Day of Discovery on October 24th in Bradley County. This Day of Discovery will be offered in conjunction with the DEN Virtual Conference. This free professional development event is open to administrators and educators from Tennessee and North Carolina. Bradley County Public Schools, Discovery [...]
Opportunity for Kentucky educators! Join Discovery Education and Kentucky Educational Television on October 17th for a full-day professional development event featuring a special visitor – Reed Timmer, host of the Discovery Channel series “Storm Chasers.” Bring your curiosity, laptop, and camera! Click here to register. KETInvite
Just a heads up that the Day of Discovery scheduled for this Saturday in Cincinnati, OH has been postponed. Stay tuned for more details!
One educator I follow on Twitter is Riptide Furse. (Okay, his real name is Fred Delventhal, but we know him as Riptide via his Second Life associations.) Riptide shares a lot of great stuff on Twitter. But for the annual Banned Books Week, he shared a Google Map. Interesting! Google Map on Banned Books in [...]
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