On Monday evening, as the final meeting of the first DEN Book Club, we will be joined by the author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott himself! He will be sharing his own perspective on the NetGeneration and the impact they will be having on the world of education. This webinar will be open to [...]
Fresh off the presses, the latest offering from Discovery Education is called Progress Zone (PZ). In a nutshell, you create assessments for your students (based off of state standards of course). Students take the assessments. If the students get anything wrong, PZ will immediately step in to offer up digital media tailored specifically to those [...]
Simulposted from the PA blog We are in Hershey, PA, for the DEN pre-conference at PETE&C and we are having a TERRIFIC day chock full of tips and tricks for digital storytelling. The day was kicked off with an inspiring keynote, Beyond Essays: Digital Stories, New Media Narrative and the Emerging Nature of Literacy, featuring [...]
The DEN book club is about to get started! Our first meeting will be on Monday, February 9th at 7pm EST. We’ll be discussing Chapters 1 and 2 at that time. If you haven’t started yet, read as far as you can, but make sure you still join us! There will be a real time [...]
I’m very excited to announce that the DEN will be participating in the next global collaborative project that Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay are creating! You can read the entire announcement below, but here’s a quick summary: 1) Don Tapscott, the author of Grown Up Digital, is hosting a video challenge right now with the [...]
Add Mike_Bryant’s channel to your page The above embed comes from SplashCast. I’ve played around with this service for about a month now, unable to decide if it’s any better than some other tools out there. On one hand, SplashCast allows you to throw a lot of different file types into a single presentation. This [...]
Time is running out to register for the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, the first and only national K-12 sustainability education initiative aligned to education standards and uniquely tailored to match students’ growing comprehension abilities throughout their school-aged years. We’re encouraging all middle school students across the United States to kick off 2009 [...]
The DEN in SL Leadership Council, winners of the 2008 Edublog Award for Best Use of a Virtual World in Education, are looking for some roving reporters. Whether you’d be stepping in to Second Life for the first time, or are celebrating your 5th ‘rez’ day, the DEN in SL blog would love to have [...]
There’s quite a few exiting webinars in the next few weeks that I’m sure you won’t want to miss! First of all, as our next EdTechConnect presenter we have Dr. Tim Tyson. While I had known of him for years, the first time I saw him speak was when he was the closing keynote at [...]
Of course you do! Who wouldn’t? Well over the past 6 years, Discovery Education and CDWG have given away no less than 18 wireless labs to schools, and this year is your chance to win one of your own! CDWG and Discovery Education announced today the opening of the seventh annual “Win a Wireless Lab” [...]
Did you every want to try the Iditarod, but didn’t want to travel through real ice and snow? Here is your chance! Based very loosely on Discovery’s World’s Toughest Race join us for the first ever “DEN Virtual Iditarod” to be held at our Winter Wonderland Carnival. Come and enjoy the winter season with friends! [...]
As I was trolling through the EduBlog Awards this year, I was thrilled to see the DEN represented a few different times! In particular, the DEN in Second Life team has been nominated for the Best Educational Use of a Virtual World! Major kudos for the nomination, but now let’s see what we can do [...]
December 17th is going to be a phenomenal day for webinars here at Discovery Education. We’ll be closing the calendar year off with two holiday treats, one for you and one for your students. In the morning, the Science Channel’s Michio Kaku will do a special webinar for you to share with students in your [...]
If newspapers are old school, and aggregators are new school, then consider Tabbloid the rest area on the highway between the two. Tabbloid is a simple Web 2.0 application that allows you to submit a set of RSS feeds along with an email address, and then have sent to you a newsletter via email that [...]
Are you a fan of the Mythbusters? Think your students might be? Well, they’re going to be special guests of Discovery Education at NSTA tomorrow and Lance is going to be hosting a Q&A with them. While he has plenty of his own questions to ask them, we thought we’d open it up to you [...]
”The best way to predict the future is to invent it.“ – Alan Kay Next week we’ll be having a very special EdTechConnect presentation, featuring one of the father’s of modern programming. Alan Kay is a technology pioneer who has consistently been at the forefront of the computer age. He was one of the first [...]
How good was the Virtual Conference? So good that you need to share it. So good you need to watch it again. So good that you need to add each presentation to your iTunes library so you have it on demand whenever somebody asks you what the best professional development you’ve attended this year was. [...]
As promised, here is Bernie Dodge’s EdTechConnect webinar, entitled Webquests and Web 2.0. Description: The WebQuest model has been around since ancient times: 1995. The web has fundamentally changed since then with the invention of blogs, wikis, podcasts and social tools of every stripe. Has the model kept up, or are WebQuests a relic of [...]
Discovery Connect is proud to provide you and your students the opportunity to learn from a true American hero, U.S. Air Force Major Paul Moga of the Air Combat Command’s 1st Fighter Wing. Paul “Max” Moga is the host of Showdown: Air Combat, a Military Channel series which offers amazing insight into the aircraft’s,the weaponry [...]
We host quite a few webinars. Yes, I know, that’s the understatement of the century. But what we’d really like is to put YOU in the spotlight! That’s why we’ve scheduled several “Sharing with the STARs” webinars and spread them throughout the course of the year. The first one is scheduled for next Tuesday, October [...]
This month, we are honored to have one of the pioneers of web based education as our featured EdTechConnect Speaker. On Wednesday, October 22 at 7pm Eastern Bernie Dodge will be sharing his presentation, “Webquests and Web 2.0″. The WebQuest model has been around since ancient times: 1995. The web has fundamentally changed since then [...]
We all remember what it’s like to walk into your first classroom as a first year teacher. You don’t know your students, you barely know the curriculum, and you certainly have no idea what to do with yourself beyond that first period. Discovery Education has just the resource for you… We’ve teamed up with Walden [...]
Ok ok ok, put your hands down. If you’re a DEN member, then we know you qualify! Well, this is your chance to apply for Cable in the Classroom’s Leaders in Learning Awards. The application process has begun and will continue through Wednesday, December 17th. However, why wait? Winners will be honored in Washington DC [...]
A few days ago, the NSBA released their annual list of educators that have made noteworthy uses of technology in education and are worth watching over the next several years. We are thrilled to share that STAR Discovery Educator Jeremy Davis was honored as one of the “20 to Watch“! As the co-author of the [...]
I think the title says it all. Sometimes, the best Web 2.0 sites are the simplest! Speechable let’s you upload your images and add bubbles to them. That’s it. Wham bam, done. When you’ve finished one, you can either use their embed code to put it in your blog/website or just download it yourself. I [...]
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