Heads up CT educators. It’s been a while since we’ve had the opportunity to attend a face-to-face event. Well, if you are looking for a day trip (or maybe a weekend get-a-way), Revere Public Schools in Revere, MA, is hosting just such an event on Saturday, May 18, starting with breakfast at 9:00 am and [...]
This address by Steve Dembo is one you really need to find the time to view. Although I didn’t agree with all he proposed, he certainly left me with a lot to think about. I can highlight a bit of the address, but you really need to watch it – maybe more than once – [...]
Well, it feels as if spring has finally arrived in Connecticut. What a lovely day we had today! I was so blessed to be able to spend a good deal of the day in my backyard by the pond where the purple and white violets are blooming profusely. It was wonderful. Then, this evening I [...]
Hello, everyone! I am snowed in here in CT and decided it was finally time to bite the bullet and attempt a blog post. New England may be at a standstill, but Discovery Education has been busy, busy, busy. If you didn’t get a chance to tune into the Saturday, January 26, 2013 livestream of [...]
I am a faithful follower of Classroom 2.0. There will be no show this Saturday because they are mindful that many of their participants will want to participate in the DEN Fall Virtual Conference – Tech or Treat – taking place this coming Saturday, October 20, 2012, from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM. The format [...]
Thanks to an email heads-up from Porter Palmer, I was able to view the live webcast from the Polar Bear’s International camp in the tundra. Two Discovery Educators, Karen Ogen and Tammy Einerson, were among the participants who hosted the webcast at 3:30 ET. They spoke of their awesome experiences so far which included sightings of [...]
I love Discovery Education, especially being part of the DEN. Of course, the subscription to the service and all it affords, including the ability to truly individualize lessons for our students, is a wonderful thing. Having 24/7 access to Discovery Education opens up a huge platform for teachers and students to learn and follow passions. [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with a number of other members of the CT Leadership Council at a get-together hosted by Whitney Mihoulides. At the meeting, it was announced that there would be a face-to-face, Day of Discovery, free professional development event to be held this fall on Saturday, [...]
It is hard to believe, but it is almost the end of July. Summer is the perfect time to explore more of the wonderful resources Discovery Education has to offer -time that is so often at a premium during the school year. I don’ t have grandchildren yet, but I want to remind all educators [...]
It’s almost here – the collaboration between Discovery Education Network and Classroom 2.0 -the Social Learning Summit – starts tomorrow at 8:50 am EST. Here is a link to the presentations for the EST: http://www.classroom20.com/page/sls-2012-schedule-gmt-4 Chad Lehman also wrote a nice post on the upcoming summit including a short instructional video on how to find [...]
Of all my personal learning network resources, I am most passionate about the Discovery Education Network (DEN) and Classroom 2.0. Now these two wonderful professional development platforms have partnered and are sponsoring the Social Learning Summit on Saturday, April 21. The conference theme is the use of social media and web 2.0 in teaching and [...]
Both Jane and David have done a great job of highlighting features of the wonderful gathering of educators at the Mark Twain House Visitor Center this past Saturday. I am so grateful for them sharing their notes, summary comments, and links to the archived presentations. One of the highlights for me was being privileged to [...]
In a previous post I raved about the Splashtop app I’d purchased for my iPad. However, I was only able to connect to a computer that was on the same wireless network. After going to the help site, and following the directions for “internet discovery,” it’s working! I made sure that I had my gmail [...]
It’s winter break, and I’m so happy to finally have time to play a bit with my iPad. I was scanning through some tweets from the top educators that I follow on Twitter, and I came across a recommendation from Vicki Davis for the Splashtop app that allows you to connect remotely to your computer or laptop [...]
Some students at my middle school had been asked to create a collage of family members as part of their Spanish unit on vocabulary having to do with the family. When they asked for help in printing their collage, I discovered they had created it on their iPads using a free app called Pic Collage. [...]
On Saturday, November 5, 2011, I had the distinct pleasure to attend the Westchester Day of Discovery in White Plains, New York. I blogged about it in a previous post, but I wanted to share how I implemented an iPad app that I had learned about from Hall Davidson. I actually posted this in my Posterous [...]
Today I attended Westchester Day of Discovery in White Plains, NY, and as usual, I came away from the experience energized and even more excited about how technology can add excitement and engagement and skill building for today’s students.You would think after a whole day at the conference, I would have said, “Enough is enough! [...]
Just this past summer I became aware that Discovery Education offered subscribers access to the whole collection of the wonderful Weston Woods retelling of famous children’s stories and picture books. The studio, located in Weston, CT, I believe, uses narration, music, and animation to bring important children’s books to life through multimedia. Even though the [...]
One of the teachers at our middle school sent out a reminder to teachers to connect their iPads to their iTunes accounts on their computer to make sure everything was up to date. I have to admit that I hadn’t plugged in for a couple of weeks, so I decided that last night was the time to take care of [...]
Earlier in September, I watched the webinar with Steve Dembo on blogging for the state councils, but when I accessed the DEN Blog Network for the first time, I just couldn’t find the “categories” panel so I could put my check by CT. I must have clicked on something different this time because I found [...]
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