Who are you? What do you do? Where do you work? How do I contact you later? These are very simple questions that everyone reading emails should be able to answer for themselves. However, do you know the answers to these 4 simple questions for the rest of the individuals that send you emails? Hundreds [...]
“Welcome to the Not in Words’ website: explaining things with a universal language, the language of pictures.” ~http://www.notinwords.com/ This video is very good at explaining the “Evolution of the Web through Web 2.0″ to those that still just don’t understand. More importantly, it has NO WORDS; thus, the title of the website. Even though most [...]
Have you ever spent more than 5 minutes resizing and cropping an image to the “JUST RIGHT” size for your website or other location? I know that I have and I also know that many teachers get caught up in this task just to have their image become distorted by the height and width dimensions. [...]
Check out the NC DEN February 2012 Newsletter using flipsnack.
What a neat way to use online books and also help others in need. This would be very cool with an interactive whiteboard and the annotation tools that you can use to make the experience even better! Read the quote from their site: “We Give Books is a new digital initiative that enables anyone with access [...]
Have a wonderful break and don’t forget to “DANCE LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING!!” Relax and enjoy the season with your family and friends. ~The NC LC Team
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Our very own Mark Case will be hosting an event at Southern Guilford High School in Greensboro, NC on Saturday, May 21, 2011. If you are interested in attending please CLICK HERE to fill out the registration form. Coordinates: meet at N 35° 56.952 W 079° 51.430, teacher parking lot of Southern Guilford High School. [...]
Way to go Kelly. She just received the DEN Blog Award for this school year. I knew that she was a gem when I started reading her personal blogs over a year ago. We are so excited to have her on our team. LOVE YOU KELLY!!
Decide what part of the curriculum you want to integrate with GPS devices? Anything goes!!!! What do you want the students to learn from the activity or how will completing this activity enhance the curriculum that you have taught in the classroom? Find out how many GPS devices you have available to use and determine [...]
Celebrating 40 Years!!! You have exactly one week left to make arrangements to attend NCTIES in Raleigh, March 2-4, 2011. According to the twitter feed, 1300 people have pre-registered and you can still register onsite next week. Here is a list of the featured speakers for Pre-conference and Concurrent Session: Rushton Hurley – Keynote Speaker [...]
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On May 30, 2009, North Carolina educators participated in the 1st DEN Geocaching Day at two locations: Etowah and Kinston Etowah, NC Twelve geocachers began the day at the newly opened Etowah Public Library where they learned about how GPS satellites work, GPS devices and Geocaching. They then spent some time looking for some small caches around [...]
Fifteen states will participate in the first-ever DEN Geocaching Day and North Carolina is one of them! Two events are planned for Saturday, May 30, 2009 in which educators are invited to learn about geocaching and using GPS devices. Location #1 – Golden Corral – Kinston, NC Time: 8:30- Contact: DEN Guide: Lee Yahnker, dragonflyly@netscape.net Location [...]
Thursday evening, I was privileged to attend a screening for Jeff Corwin’s The Vanishing Frog, a new Animal Planet Documentary in Charlotte, NC at the Discovery Place. Jeff began his presentation by stating “It was hard to get people to see that frogs are sexy things,” and I very much agreed. He [...]
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