If you have been to a Lodge McCammon workshop, then you will remember the laughter, fun and learning that took place. I too did this activity with students in my school and it was a blast. So now what else can you do with Lodge songs? Did you know they were a part of DiscoveryEducation [...]
First you must put the DE site on your home page on the iPad. Open Safari and go to the DE website. Click on the “send to” arrow right next to the URL and a new window will open. Choose ADD TO HOME SCREEN and a nice DE icon will be placed on your ipad [...]
The Villanova Tech Expo gets better each year. It is largely presented by Villanova University and many area sponsors and is free for attendees. Presenters are generally local educators, and vendors, but if you look at the schedule, there are always some golden nuggets of information to be found. Over 50 sessions, included topics from [...]
Today is testing day in Pennsylvania. Our students have been prepared and the teachers are ready. This year the DOE required each teacher to complete a 45 minute webinar and quiz about the ethics of this PSSA test. I don’t mind, I did it and it was a good review of the procedures. As a [...]
Take over 300 attendees, 27 presenters, 55 workshops and 0 pages of paper, put it together and you get a Google Summit at Charlottesville, Virginia, 2013. Dedicated to all things Google, the sessions covered topics from “Getting Started” to “Google Ninja”, there was something for everyone. There were also many DEN Stars presenting for the [...]
March is National Nutrition Month, so what are you doing to eat healthier? You can easily watch some DE videos on nutrition. For example Nutrition Labels was made in 2012 and explains what is on a label. Did you know that DE has an ebook called Nutrition Labels as well? If you want to see [...]
If you want to make your students think and laugh at the same time, share http://thankstextbooks.tumblr.com/ with them. It is a weekly update of oddities found in textbooks. The comments are often as funny as the textbook print. Lance Rougeux shared this table for apps/sites and their use: Tinyurl.com/coreofde . One of the fun activities on this page [...]
About 15 years ago in a graduate class far away I recall my professor telling us that in the future we would be consumers of information. What on earth did that mean? Well here we are in 2013, consuming information everyday. Looking up times for movies, learning about new ideas for teaching the perfect lesson, [...]
Thursdays at 8:00PM hop on to your Twitter account and search for the #denchat in the search bar. You will be pleasantly educated by some of the countries smartest, and most enthusiastic educators from the DEN! For the first chat the group asked questions, offered ideas and tweeted the location of their blog. The archive [...]
Yes you can spend $1000 or more just for the camera body of a big name camera. But with the price of apps so cheap, you may as well use your iPhone to learn to take better pictures. At a session at PETE&C last week I picked up several new app ideas for this purpose. [...]
Taking a new twist on the day, the pre-conference was divided into sessions in the morning, an app slam at lunch and unconference in the afternoon. This was well received by the attendees, many of whom had never participated in an unconference before. Sessions included an augmented reality discussion about the following apps: Aurasma, iFunFace, Imag-n-o-tron, [...]
Since last spring our district, Unionville-Chadds Ford, has been exploring BYOD vs. iPads in the classroom. We have debated different tablets, netbooks, and laptops, but have finally settled on using iPads in the middle school. This was a long debate and discussion with over 25 people involved. Recently our administrative team from district office and building visited [...]
Recently I read some great posts on Tony Vincent’s webpage “Learning in Hand“. As I continued to click to different links it lead me to other pages and blogs he has created over the years. The post that struck me was his writing about what tech he uses and which devices he finds the most [...]
There are over 60 sessions offered by the DENSI12 attendees. It is quite challenging to narrow down to one workshop per hour because of the valuable information being offered. Be sure to explore the Edmodo site for DENSI12 for links to these workshops.
Most people are set for the first month of school. Review of material, setting the climate of the class and reminder of your rules. Here is a site, Student Handouts, that offers handouts, lesson ideas and more for most subjects and includes K-12. I thought it would be just a few black line masters, but [...]
Teaching History is giving away a poster for teachers. This colorful Historical Thinking Poster illustrates use of primary and secondary sources as if you are solving a mystery. This poster also includes questions students should ask when reading primary source documents. Tips for locating reliable secondary sources are also included in the double-sided poster. There [...]
Image by mtsofan via Flickr While looking for some tutorials for Google, I noticed quite a few links to some great teaching information. The first one is for back to school discounts and specials for teachers from many stores. Watch your local paper for other deals and specials from Target as well. There are thousands [...]
Image by Ludwig Gatzke via Flickr There were so many links shared at the DEN Symposium, that I want to be sure that you have them too! Most of these are found from within the Edmodo.com group as well, but I found it easier to see them in this format. Edmodo.com – to create a [...]
Image by rmom352 via Flickr Even though most of us were not there at the DEN LC Symposium or the DEN Summer Institute, in Bentley University, we followed the discussions on various ways; Twitter, Edomodo, CoverItLive, Plurk and of course reading the blogs that were posted with tips, websites, videos and photos of the action. [...]
Image by rmom352 via Flickr Today was filled with unconference sessions set by request of the participants. There were 24 different sessions offered in 4 time slots. My day began with geocaching in the rain with Porter Palmer. She confessed to being new to geocaching, but has a great depth of knowledge and enthusiasm about [...]
Image by rmom352 via Flickr Last night we had the pleasure of visiting the office of Peter Reynolds company, FableVision which are located in the Boston Children’s Museum on the harbor. The work areas are whimsical as each person has their own collection of toys, books and visuals around their working area. Posters of Peter’s [...]
Today at the DEN LC in Boston we worked with Dr. Lodge McCammon of the Friday Institute in North Carolina. If you have never experienced a workshop with him, then you need to find a conference and go there NOW! This is an exciting way to have students create an instructional video in a quick [...]
Image by brentdanley via Flickr This site is full of logic games for many age levels. At this time of the school year, you may need a time filler at the end of class as students finish projects. You can even put this up on your IWB and have groups of students try their hand [...]
Image via Wikipedia Come to the Philadelphia Zoo this summer for FREE. The intent is to have teachers visit then plan to bring their students on a field trip later in the year. The Philadelphia Zoo is the nations first zoo and has made many improvements of the past several years. In addition, their education [...]
Image by rmom352 via Flickr If you have been following the blogs, then you know that you can participate in a Geocaching day in many places. Visit the main page HERE to get the details. If you were planning on attending the session in Kennett Square, it has been postponed. Email Robin Martin at (rmartin [...]
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