As the blog coordinator for the SC DEN, I have lots of opportunities to meet and network with some of the finest educators in the “techno-world.” This week, I am a participant in the Discovery Educator Network’s Leadership Council Symposium. Along with other LC members across the nation, I have been learning about best practices [...]
I’m at the DEN Leadership Council Institute in Boston this week with 75 other amazing DEN leaders from across the country. This evening we participated in an AmeriDEN Idol competition. What a fun structure for learning! Each team (of approximately ten people) were given four minutes to deliver a presentation to the others… a web site, online tool, video, etc. The DEN team hammed [...]
Today was another full day of learning at the DEN Leadership Council Symposium 2010. We started our day with an inspirational presentation by Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard. Here’s a link to his presentation. Go check out these posts from attendees about the session: A Morning with Chris [...]
Today, Discovery Education and 3M announced the top 47 middle school students from across the country as semifinalists in the 12th annual Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The semifinalists were selected based on their science communication skills exhibited in a short video explaining the science behind issues millions of Americans face in everyday life, [...]
Kansas and Missouri joined together for Discovery Geocaching Day at Ernie Miller State Park. We had two wonderful presenters from Garmin who shared information on geocaching and also provided GPS units for us to use. It was muddy but everyone had a wonderful time. We launched 5 travel bugs.
The GA DEN LC leaders are having a great time networking and learning in Boston at the DEN LC Symposium! We have had great sessions with Dr. Lodge, visited with our friends at Fablevision, and seen the sights around Boston, like Fenway Park. We can’t wait to get back to Georgia to share all the [...]
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Last night, as part of the DEN LC 2010, we spent the night at FableVision with Peter Reynolds. Rather than here about the night in my words, I’m going to point you to the Pennsylvania DEN Blog for a nice recap and the Tennessee DEN Blog for another.
Monday’s DEN LC Symposium began with a three-hour session with Dr. Lodge McCammon, aka as the FIZZ Man. If you attended the DENPreCon at PETE&C10, you are already familiar with the amazing talent that Lodge brings to his unique presentations. What he does incredibly well is create original music for PBL on difficult-to-teach concepts. For [...]
I wish it wasn’t over! The International Society for Technology and Education, ISTE 2010 conference in Denver, proved to be a successful and terrific forum to share new and thought provoking ideas, gain new skills, and reinforce the importance of educational technology within the classroom curriculum. ISTE is the world’s most comprehensive technology event. Attendees [...]
Image by rmom352 via Flickr Last night we had the pleasure of visiting the office of Peter Reynolds company, FableVision which are located in the Boston Children’s Museum on the harbor. The work areas are whimsical as each person has their own collection of toys, books and visuals around their working area. Posters of Peter’s [...]
Yesterday was a whirlwind first day for the DEN LC Symposium in Waltham, MA, and the Bentley University. We spent the morning with Dr. Lodge McCammon. The afternoon was a wild ride through downtown Boston. Not a good tour for pictures because we just didn’t get off the bus much due to time. Last night [...]
Spending time with amazingly talented people at the DEN LC Symposium in Boston this week has been amazing so far. Today we listened to Chris Dede. He discussed how we need to be thinking about the future of education. Some key take-aways for me: Web 2.0 is about sharing, thinking, and co-creating. It is not [...]
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If you are not attending the DEN Leadership Symposium at Bentley University in Waltham, MA, you might want to attend this Google SketchUp STEM Webinar. PA DEN STAR Linda Nitsche delivered a related presentation at PETE&C 2010 and shared a wealth of resources. If you are planning to attend this webinar, in addition to downloading [...]
The Leadership Council members at this year’s symposium started the day with a 3-hour session of FIZZ with, Dr. Lodge McCammon. We actively learned about user-created videos in the classroom. There were a lot of creative ideas coming from the groups, and the products were just awesome. After a great morning with Lodge McCammon, we [...]
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