The DEN Summer Institute 2010 – Day 3 by Sarah Thompson Today was an amazing, fun-filled, educational day! I experienced a full FIZZ workshop with Dr. Lodge McCammon. We started off our session with a video scavenger hunt. The goal – to capture a 30 second one take video of 10 different ideas. Each idea [...]
We just got back from an awesome week of learning and fun with the Discovery Educator Network. There were seven of us from Michigan who met with leaders from 20 other states. I sure enjoyed spending time with this group of geeky people with contagious energy and positive attitudes!
Today at the Discovery Institute, the focus was digital storytelling. We were fortunate to have three amazing presenters share with us some tips and techniques on doing meaningful video projects in the classroom. The FIZZ session, by Dr. Lodge McCammon was the one we attended. We learned so many neat things such as how to [...]
DE Streaming has changed some of the formatting and flexibility in areas such as My Content and the Builders. These changes have really made DE Streaming even easier to use than ever before. With school about to start again in some parts of the country (and especially in TN), we thought we would add some [...]
Happy Monday! We’re here at Bentley University just outside of Boston, MA for another week of growing and learning as a community. This week, 75 DEN STARs who applied and were accepted from across the US and Canada are with us. This morning, attendees got an in depth look at the latest roll out of [...]
DE treated LC members to the BLC 2010 Conference. The BLC Conference is hotsed by November Learning. Mitch Resnick opened the conference with a very simple message: Students should be creating on the web I couldn’t agree more and not just creating for themselves and their classmates, but for the world. Using Scratch as his [...]
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