What a great couple of days! I have really enjoyed working with each and every participant! I have especially enjoyed seeing that a-ha moment occur followed by the “You mean I can…” or “Wait that means I can…” Very cool stuff! As we mentioned in this morning’s session, you can access the Powerpoint presentations, links [...]
We finally got to complete our message after a whirlwind of activity here at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Institute in Long Branch, NJ. We are, and you’ll see below, standing on some very famous steps at Monmouth University. Famous you ask? Famous we say. Because this is where the movie Annie was filmed. And while we [...]
Man how fast did this summer go by? I swear I closed my eyes on June 1 and when I opened them it was almost August! What happened to the slow lazy hazy days of summer? Since the new school year is once again rapidly approaching we have set up a number of Back to [...]
Man how fast did this summer go by? I swear I closed my eyes on June 1 and when I opened them it was almost August! What happened to the slow lazy hazy days of summer? Since the new school year is once again rapidly approaching we have set up a number of Back to [...]
Hello my fellow geekybirders – does that make multiple readers a geeky flock? This is coming to you hot off the presses! The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Communications and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have joined together to inspire student achievement in sustainability through a comprehensive education initiative, the Siemens We Can Change the World [...]
This is a fun and easy trick that that will allow you and your students to add callouts and balloons to your Movie Maker movies. Once you install the files, they are ready to use each time you use Movie Maker. Click here to see how…
Well I finally got home at 3:30 this morning and crawled into bed. Even though I was exhausted, I couldn’t fall asleep because I was still energized from all of the new information that I learned, the connections that I made, and the many creative tech-integration strategies that educators shared with me while I was [...]
I can’t believe how fast NECC has come upon us! It seems like only yesterday we were in Atlanta – learning from each other and exploring new ideas. So tomorrow, before the sun rises, I will find myself at the airport on my to San Antonio, Texas. I’ve set my brain on Sponge so that [...]
Ok I admit it, I’ve always wanted to use the word “plethora” in a sentence and I’m a sucker for alliteration. Weird right? Well, my dear friends, over the years I have collected a myriad of how-to instructions and ed tech integration ideas/solutions and put them together into presentations and pdfs. I have tried to [...]
Can I get a Whoop Whoop for VA and the VA DEN?!? The VA DEN LC helped organize and deliver a fantastic VA Day of Discovery on Saturday, June 7, 2008! I am still so excited that we had over 50 educators in person and another 30 on-line come together and share their time, creativity, [...]
Over the year’s I’ve posted PowerPoint presentations, Word Docs, and more on the streaming A-Z blog but found that they can be hard to find the more I post. So that said, I have created the Bird House page to post resources that I have created or collected from my tech friends. I’ll try to [...]
At the risk of sounding too geeky – I’ve renamed this blog in reference to a few different things: One of my all-time favorite cartoons, Transformers, (loved movie too) when I was growing up (ok maybe still) The Phoenix bird (see image in header) My love for technology and its impact within the classroom All [...]
I got this cool trick via DEN Stars, Cindy Lane and Jen Dorman and man is it cool! Did you know that you can use the blue screen feature in Windows MovieMaker? Yeah – how cool is that? And since MovieMaker is a free download you don’t have to purchase an expensive movie editor to [...]
This is way too exciting and way too cool and I wish I could take credit for figuring this out. Yesterday my colleague Kim Randall (DEN Account Manager, Western Region) sent me instructions that she received from Dennis Cowick a DEN Star Educator from San Diego Unified School District. CC Instructions for Macs I have [...]
Recently my colleague Kim Randall – DEN Western Region- sent me a link to the embedded video below. Which got me thinking about our LCs- in a song like way… I Love ALL our teachers from coast-to-coast But of the Mid-Atlantic, I have to boast We’ve got Virginia and it’s LC team And Pennsylvania – [...]
Join us on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 6:00pm EST for the first ever Mid-Atlantic DEN STAR Drive-in. What will the drive in feature be you ask? The DEN of course! We’ll have our DEN Stars take you behind the scenes and explain why they joined and discuss what they feel are the most important [...]
That’s right! We have three tickets up for grabs! Those tickets give you access to a crab leg feast with the Deadliest Catch Sea Captains. All you need to do is post a comment and include your state, school and e-mail. We’ll throw all respondents into a crab pot and pull out three spots (no [...]
Not too long ago the Discovery Channel aired a series called The Rise of the Video Game. The series featured the America’s Army game We thought it would really cool to develop a Discovery Connect Webinar around that theme and Wow what an amazing, interactive and jam packed webinar that was! This morning over 1000 [...]
Not too long ago the Discovery Channel aired a series called The Rise of the Video Game. The series featured the America’s Army game We thought it would really cool to develop a Discovery Connect Webinar around that theme and Wow what an amazing, interactive and jam packed webinar that was! This morning over 1000 [...]
I’ve seen our educators do some really neat stuff, but this has got to be one at the top of the list! Earlier this month I had the chance to travel to Alabama and visit Redstone Arsenal with a JROTC class from Bob Jones High School. During our visit the students were able to immerse [...]
Hey guys, Just in case you didn’t see this posting check out the information about the DEN National Institute. July 21-25, 2008 we will have a National Institute where 100 educators from all over the country will have the chance to come to our world head quarters in Silver Spring, MD and participate in a [...]
Well they both can be challenging to get your hands around, often have lots of components that, on the first thought, shouldn’t really go together, and are lots of fun to work with and/or eat. Recently I had the pleasure of visiting AIU 3 and delivering a few presentations to 50+ Library Media Specialists from [...]
What a day we had in Western Maryland! On Tuesday, March 4, 2008, Lance Rougeux – Director of the Discovery Educator Network and or Mr. Pennsylvania – your call, Dennis Swain – DEN Account Manager for the North East, Alex Morrison – Director of Sales, Mid-Atlantic, and I had the chance to meet, interact, and [...]
It was great to see lots of familiar faces and meet new ones at this year’s PETE and C. One of my favorite moments was getting to share the stage with Lance Rougeux and Steve Dembo as we unveiled this year’s “Streaming with the Stars” presentation. If you’re asking yourself what the heck is “Streaming [...]
Last week I got invited by Roni Staimpel at the North Coast EMC to speak to educators from in and around the Cleveland, OH area. And this week, I’m back in Columbus, OH at the eTech Conference spreading the love. Everyone I spoke to, both in Cleveland and Columbus, told me that I had to [...]
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