You are invited to join the LA LC Chair in the Shreveport/Bossier area on a DEN Geocaching Adventure on Saturday, May 22. Gather some colleagues and get together with other educators to explore what all the buzz is about! If ever you were curious about Geocaching, or have already been geocaching, then you need to [...]
Hello Everyone… Happy Teacher Appreciation Week… Have you visited the DEN National blog to see what they are offering for the days teacher appreciation gift? Yesterday was a Prezi Presentation (which can be viewed at http://community-beta.discoveryeducation.com/teacherappreciation/) while today they are giving away some special DE Streaming, Science, and other items…. Most school principals, PTA/PTO, or [...]
BrainPop is holding weekly webinars, taking place every Wednesday at 4:30 pm EDT. These webinars offer some great ideas for using video in the classroom.“This month, special guests cover a range of topics beginning with “Student Teachers: Using BrainPOP for Studying for Certification Tests” (May 5). Next up is “Special Tactics for Adapting Resourceful Tools” (May [...]
Don’t miss out on the many special surprises that Discovery has in store for the DEN STARS this week. Go to the National Blog each day to see what they have in store for us. It is like Christmas in May! Thank you Discovery and Discovery partners for your gifts of appreciation.
All STAR Discovery Educators can now explore the resources in DE streaming Plus (which includes the unbelievable LIFE series), DE Science for Elementary, DE Science for Middle School and DE Health for 90 days. This incredible gift for National DEN Teacher Appreciation Day 2 is an amazing package for its STARS: 80,000 video segments [...]
It’s an annual dilemma here at the DEN. What do we give our STARs for National Teacher Appreciation Day? Steve suggested an iPad for everyone while I suggested we raffle off his. The conversation ended. Matt Monjan wanted to give every STAR dinner with Hall Davidson, but we secretly know that Matt just wanted dinner [...]
Great news! The Discovery Education Atlas Canada is now live within the DE streaming Canada and DE streaming Canada PLUS services. What is the Discovery Education Atlas Canada you ask? Imagine an interactive map of Canada filled with engaging content all tied to your provincial standards. Now imagine that this content included 550 video clips [...]
On Thursday, May 13, at 1pm ET, chefs Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche, hosts of Planet Green’s Future Food invite you and your students to join them as they explore the science of healthy and sustainable eating. In this live, interactive webinar, “molecular gastronomists” Homaro and Ben will excite students about chemistry by demonstrating how [...]
What the heck is 43.0028, -88.2459? That’s a GPS location for a cool event led by your Wisconsin DEN Leadership Council. Join Malena Koplin and Wendy Liska, two members of the Wisconsin Leadership Council for a Day of Geocaching in Waukesha, Wisconsin on May 15, 2010, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. If you’re already [...]
Here is the archive of yesterday’s powerful Prezi presentation.
I hope all the STARs in TN jumped on the DEN’s first give-away of Teacher Appreciation Week yesterday: a FREE year’s subscription to Prezi PRO ($59). I know I did! Leave us a comment if you got yours! Let us know if you want the TN DEN LC to do a Prezi training sometime this [...]
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