The month of February brought news of two developments in the social media marketplace. One, an ill-fated debut of Google’s service called Buzz, a second almost under the radar announcement by Microsoft, about social media plug-ins for Outlook. If you are a person who has not chosen to clutter your life with the streams of [...]
Greetings Fellow Michiganders! Ever find yourself in a predicament where you need to edit a photo and you don’t have a piece of software to do it? Well, thanks to the power of the web, you will never be stuck again. There are two sites that I have found very useful, and don’t take long [...]
Image via Wikipedia Join your fellow STARs in historic Philadelphia, PA during NSTA. STAR Dinner – Wednesday, March 17th from 5:30-8:00 PM at City Tavern. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Brad Fountain (brad_fountain@discovery.com). Space is extremely limited. LIFE Screening – Thursday, March 18th (6 PM) at the Franklin Institute. Please complete [...]
One of our DEN STARs and presenters at the DEN PreCon and PETE&C was Jim Beeghley. I am sorry I did not see his Discovering Social Studies presentation, but here are his resources. Discovering Social Studies Petec View more presentations from fifer1863. #petec2010 Jim Beeghley Social Studies Discovery Education
As anyone who attended PETE&C 2010 can attest, there were many memorable Web 2.0 presentations. Perhaps the most energetic was Brandon Lutz’s 60 in 60, a presentation for which he has become legend. Lutz attempts the impossible: 60 tools in 60 minutes. Student 2.0, like any of the 237 presentations accepted out of a field [...]
Here are the session details and time slots as promised in the “First STAR” blog post. Please understand that Jennifer Dorman and Brad Hagaman will be presenting only on Thursday in “Banquet Room C”. Therefore, be sure to come by and catch the fantastic sessions being offered. If you can not attend MACE but want [...]
When it comes to leading many lives, Nancy Sharoff has most of us beaten. A multitasker and multitalented STAR turned GURU in real life, Nancy has another persona in Second Life. She is an active member of the Leadership Council. It is not difficult to see why Discovery awarded Guru status to Nancy (one of [...]
Patti Duncan, Siemens STEM Academy science coordinator and PA LC Event Chair, presented 10 Ideas 4 Using Tech in the Science Classroom. STAR DEN Kristin Hokanson blogged the session on The Connected Classroom, and Patti captured the USTREAM. Streaming Video by Ustream.TV Talk about multitasking and the power of the DEN! USTREAM #petec2010 Patti Duncan [...]
Catching up with Meg Griffin is always a challenge. As our PA DEN Leadership Council President, she is one busy lady, yet she always finds time for the many things in her life that matter. That means I am catching up with blogging our DEN STARS who shined so brightly at our DEN PreCon and [...]
<—–Sign into DE Streaming using LPB Portal The Virtual Conference is set for Saturday, April 24. This will be the day to get your mind blown with all that is being offered. You can join us for an In Person Event at the Sci Port Discovery Center from 8 am until 3 pm or, if [...]
Did you know Louisiana Public Broadcasting gives us access to Discovery Education Streaming? Since they partially fund our access, we must show our support by using the LPB Portal to log in to our accounts. Check the tab at the top of this page for more information, but make sure you log in using the [...]
Meet our new Discovery Account Manager for the Northeast Region, Whitney Mahoulides, by participating in the webinars she has organized for us. We would like to invite you and your staff to learn more about the only digital video-based learning resource scientifically proven to increase student achievement. We are offering 3 New Topics in this [...]
Heading to the MACE conference on the K-State campus March 4 – 5? Well Discovery Education will be having sessions all day Thursday, March 4 and we would LOVE IT if you came by to learn with us. There are a wide variety of sessions ranging from the basics of DE streaming to information on [...]
Sick and tired of winter? Have 5 minutes to invest in a little visual literacy exercise? Try Twilk.com. You get an interesting visual representation of your PLN. I like my network even more when I see everyone in pictures. What does your network look like?
One of the great things about the Discovery Educator Network is that it’s comprised of educators from all walks of life- educators who have taught for two years all the way to twenty-two years or beyond! As educational trends come and go, it is the educator who must continuously adapt to new innovations. And as [...]
If you want to see a project-based classroom modeling authentic 21st century learning, then be sure to check out Jan Abernethy’s Techno Tigers. Jan shared many ways that her students are using technology across the curriculum. From creating wikis, to blogging, or Skyping other classrooms in PA, her students are collaborating and creating content that [...]
Amber Muscarello and Anna Davila from Sartartia Middle School in Sugar Land, TX have developed a great project around the Mythbusters. They will be presenting their project at the National Conference for the Teachers of Mathematics April 21-24 in San Diego, CA. The project website is currently in the initial stages of development and should [...]
Enjoy the DEN Weekly Update for February 26, 2010.
The Kansas Leadership Council would like to welcome Sara Pittman to our family of Discovery Education STAR Educators. Please welcome her with open arms and help spread the word what a fantastic professional learning community we have in the Discovery Educator Network. See you on March 4th and 5th in Manhattan, KS for the MACE [...]
Come join us on March 6 from 9:30-2:00 for a day of Digital Learning. Start at 9:30 am at Einstein Bagle at Crown Center. While eating a bagel and drinking a cup of coffee, learn how to take great digital pictures under the instruction of Jim Rogers, professional photographer. At 10:30 venture out into the [...]
Congratulations to Janet Zilka, Technology Instructor at St. Andrews the Apostle School, for being selected as the winner for an all expense paid trip to this year’s NSTA Conference in Philadelphia March 18-21. Janet enrolled her school in the Siemens We Can Change the World challenge as a way to bring STEM activities to the [...]
Christine Southard began study hall session telling us a bit about her background. Did you know that she has taught the blind to ski? Christine is a “learning specialist” in a New York 5th grade classroom and co-teaches with Lisa Parisi, she came to share her tips at PETE&C. Normally people want passes to leave [...]
No green screen involved here, this is the real thing!! Scott Kinney was in Maine working with the Auburn School Department! Thank goodness for these serious photos. Thanks to all of the Star DEN members that came to [...]
The Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) and Discovery Education announce a new partnership creating the It’s 21. Just Pass initiative. Designed to reinforce the message that the legal drinking age is 21 and challenge high school students’ knowledge about the laws and consequences of underage drinking, [...]
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has selected Discovery Education streaming Plus and Discovery Education Science as finalists for the 2010 CODiE Awards. The CODiE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries. Discovery Education streaming Plus was nominated in the “Best Education Solution” category, and Discovery [...]
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