Were you one of the millions updating their iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad today once Apple released their iOS 5 update? I was and with mixed results. In updating our new iPads at school, I was successful in updating 1 of 3 without issues. Thus, I did not update the other 22 iPads. Upon Tweeting [...]
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Fall Virtual Conference: “Jersey STARS” are inviting you to join us for a day of professional development and networking as we “Tech or Treat” with the Discovery Educator Network. Participants Will Leave With: -Deep exploration of the rich variety of digital content available within Discovery Education. -Integration strategies and exemplar learning experiences to bring digital [...]
12:01 PM It’s official. You can start to download iOS 5 promptly at “18:00:00 BST”, according to a British website (no one else knew). Once we sleuth what BST means, we’ll continue. (Don’t you just hate help that makes things worse?) While you say you got the BS part, BST actually stands for British Summer [...]
Yesterday was a fun filled day for Dallas Teachers with a visit from Discovery Education. About 200 teachers from as far as 3 hours away came for a day of networking and learning to increase their knowledge on Discovery tools and more. Matt Monjan led a session on digital storytelling tools for the classroom. He [...]
The Connecticut Day of Discovery is just over a week away and there is still space for you to join us! The Discovery Educator Network Pre-CECA Conference Day of Discovery will be held on Saturday, October 22 from 8:00 am – 3:30 pm at the Lincoln Middle School in Meriden, CT. This is [...]
Image Source: Flickr.com janineomg I’m SUPER PSYCHED to be part of the Virtual Conference this year. I’ll be presenting at 10 a.m. (EST), so set those alarm clocks! My session is titled, ‘No Tricks, Just Treats’ and I’ll be featuring goodies from my tech bag. And since one of DEN’s mottos is, ‘We Are Our [...]
There is only one week left in the Adobe The 2011 Educator’s Choice Awards awards program for educators. Submissions will only be accepted up until next Friday, October 14th, so get yours in now! Any educator can enter. You submit your innovative teaching and learning materials and you could win some really nice [...]
I was just thinking about teaching and how tiring it is and how we work as teachers and had a thought: Teaching is a lot like wrestling (the real wrestling like in high school and college, not the scripted stuff on TV). I was on the wrestling team in high school and my freshmen [...]
NASA Mission: Science is another awesome resource for educators from NASA. Mission: Science is provided by NASA to engage students in NASA Science and showcase educational resources from NASA and its partners. It is a great place to start when looking for science resources from NASA. There are links to what NASA is studying, science careers, [...]
Two “in person” events for the 2011 DEN Tech or Treat have been announced. Join us for one of these fun events geared toward learning and sharing with fellow educators! Chocowinity, NC (near Greenville) – REGISTER HERE Madison, NC (Rockingham County) – REGISTER HERE
3:00 AM Yawn! Still clicking the Update button to get iOS 5 (this might be a dream) and the message states, “This version of the iPad software (4.3.5) is the current version”! So much for Pacific time. 9:26 AM Still waiting for the iOS 5 update. It was a long night. Big article in [...]
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