Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation just announced the launch of a new online curriculum powered by Discovery Education. Promoting ways to help young people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out – this curriculum is now available at no cost to educators at www.energybalance101.com Olympic gold medal gymnast Shannon Miller [...]
Have you noticed how different your dashboard looks when you log in to DE this year? Well there are a number of new features on your dashboard that will help you maximize your use of DE content as well as help you keep up to date with upcoming events within the DEN. I will highlight [...]
Why I For some, Facebook is a place to post what you did during your weekend, share cool videos you found on YouTube, give your thoughts on the weeks hot topics and a place post pictures of your weekly outings, friends and family. I am guilty of all of these things – most [...]
Straight from the White House… At the White House today, President Obama hosted the White House Science Fair celebrating the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions. During his remarks, President Obama announced his participation in an upcoming episode of Discovery Channel’s popular series, MYTHBUSTERS. But that’s not all! [...]
Our Canadian Webinar Drive has come to and end and we would like to announce the participant with the most points. Congratulations goes out to Sarah Thompson at Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. With a total of 46 points Sarah was ahead of the pack and helped grow the DEN within Canada. This Canadian [...]
Several videos on YouTube have made the rounds recently as they have addressed perceived issues within our current educational system as it relates to the world around us. I received another video today that both challenged and “wow-ed” me as an educator. I believe that you will also be moved by both the message and the method [...]
Many of you have heard of or even attended previous virtual conferences from the comfort of your own surroundings. But, have you ever attended a virtual conference in person? Well, get ready because on October 23rd from 9am – 2pm, Texas will be hosting two live and in-person events. One will be hosted at Minshew [...]
As a Discovery user for years, I would have never guessed that I could be any more excited about where Discovery is headed. I am a fan of all things discovery and believe that they do many things right! And guess what? They have stepped up and knocked it out of the park again! Discovery’s [...]
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