One of the highlights from the DEN precon at PETE&C 2011 was Kyle’s session, iLearn with iPads. During the presentation, he focused in on iPads in education, including the numerous ways in which you can use DE content on the iPad. He does a fantastic job of breaking it down into bite sized chunks and [...]
Virtually join your friends at Discovery Education’s Sneak Peek 2011 featuring Jeff Corwin, EMMY®-Award winning TV personality & Discovery Education’s leading animal behavior expert. Get a first look at dazzling content, meet Jeff Corwin’s favorite furry and scaly friends, and learn about the innovative programs your colleagues are implementing to drive student achievement. Join us [...]
Last night’s webinar featured the 2010 winner of the Elmer’s Glue Crew Challenge, Alexandra Dexheimer. I’ve been on many a webinar these last few years, but rarely have I seen a more active group of attendees, soaking up the information Alexandra was sharing and adding their own experiences to the conversation. It was a wonderful [...]
You want archives from this year’s SciCon? You got ‘em! Visit the SciCon 2011 page to view archives from three of the sessions as well as Reed Timmer’s closing presentation (embedded below). Did you attend this year’s SciCon? If so, what were your takeaways from the day? Have you tried anything you heard in the [...]
Save the bottles. Save the sticks. Save the planet! Join us for an exciting webinar to learn fun and new ways to engage your students in the Elmer’s Glue Crew Recycling Program. Our guest speaker, the winner of last year’s Glue Crew Recycling Program, will share the valuable lessons her students learned about recycling and [...]
Congrats to science teachers in Indiana and Louisiana! You join those in Oregon as among the first in the country to have a true alternative to traditional textbooks. Both states recently adopted the Discovery Education Science Techbook as a digital core instructional resource for elementary and middle school science instruction through their state textbook adoption [...]
Consider this a VERY early Black Friday doorbuster of a deal! School Town has created a fantastic promotion exclusively for STAR Discovery Educators, and we think you’re going to love it. School Town helps you create digital courses to supplement your classroom where you can leverage resources like Discovery and any other tool or resource. [...]
Philippe Cousteau LA School Visits: In September 2010, Discovery Education and Louisiana Public Broadcasting teamed up to highlight some of the great things the partnership provides, celebrate exemplary usage of LBP CyberChannel, as well as provide a unique and extensive professional development opportunity. Several events were held, starting when Philippe Cousteau, Discovery Education’s Chief Spokesperson [...]
Over the next two weeks, we’re going to be giving away copies of the US Geography App from Discovery Education! This week we’ll be passing out codes from the iPhone and iTouch version of the app, and next week we’ll be giving away copies of the brand new iPad version of the best-selling game. Want [...]
While Edmodo is primarily known as a filter-friendly, safe way to do microblogging and social networking within schools, they’ve slowly been introducing features that make it a great tool for collaboration in general. We’ve been using it quite a bit at our various institutes and have found it to be incredibly effective for managing group [...]
One of the perks to being a STAR Discovery Educator is that you get a free blog hosted by Discovery Education. You can use it to document your learning, share your experiences with the DEN, host your class blog, or just about anything else that comes to mind. No matter how you decide to use [...]
Bienvenue! Welcome!! Willkommen! Benvenuto! Seja bem-vindo(a)! Bienvenido! That’s the greeting you’ll find when you visit the homepage of the upcoming Global Education conference. It’s a virtual conference, not unlike the K12 Online Conference, or even our own VirtCon, except that it runs nearly 24 hours a day for the duration of a week. There are [...]
Six hours worth of fantastic professional development have now been converted and posted! You’ll find sessions from Gail Lovely, Hall Davidson, Kyle Schutt, Porter Palmer, Whitney Mihoulidies, and Steve Dembo, all available for viewing online or download. Did you attend the Virtual Conference? If so, share a highlight or two from the event in the [...]
Considering the creativity on display Saturday, it was extremely difficult to narrow it down to ten finalists. However, with three Flip cams at stake, that’s just what we had to do! Review all ten finalists, and then use the polling widget below to cast your vote! Voting will be open until Friday morning, and the [...]
During the Fall Virtual Conference, the theme of the event was Tech or Treat. We encouraged people to dress in costume, and I have to say that some people really outdid themselves! In the next post, I’ll be posting the top 10 entries that you can vote on, the top 3 of which will be [...]
Straight from the White House… At the White House today, President Obama hosted the White House Science Fair celebrating the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions. During his remarks, President Obama announced his participation in an upcoming episode of Discovery Channel’s popular series, MYTHBUSTERS. But that’s not all! [...]
Discovery Education revolutionized education almost ten years ago by being the first company to introduce streaming educational media into America’s classrooms. Now, we are revolutionizing education again by launching a new iPad-optimized version of our streaming platform, the only educational streaming service scientifically shown to improve academic achievement. If you’re already a subscriber, you can [...]
We’ve all see the 50 ways to use DE streaming in the classroom, for the Fall Virtual Conference, we’re turning it back on all of you! What’s the 51st way to use streaming, YOUR way? How are you using digital media to improve your classroom activities? On October 23rd, not only will we have a [...]
Did you enjoy the DE Streamathon? Of course you did! But just on the off chance that you didn’t attend all ten hours worth of webinars, we’ve archived them all and have posted them on the Streamathon 2010 page. So head over there and check out some of your favorite presentations as shared by some [...]
Today is Constitution Day! Did you know that according to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, “all publicly funded educational institutions [must] provide educational programming on the history of the American Constitution on [this] day.” I had no idea! But clearly somebody on our curriculum team did, because they created a Theme Page within DE streaming focusing [...]
Bestselling author, Don Tapscott, adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Toronto, returns to present another webinar for Discovery Education! On September 20 at 1pm EST, he he will discuss MacroWikinomics, its impact on the world of education and the implications it holds for the future. MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World is the [...]
Recently, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and CEO of Discovery Communications David Zaslov and several other business leaders gathered together to discuss how, with an understanding of Science and Math, individuals are shaping the world we live in. It’s a fascinating video, well worth a watch!
We are very relieved to report that everyone in our headquarters is safe and unharmed, and we thank you very much for your support during this difficult day. We have posted about the day’s events on the Discovery Blog.Thanks to all the members of our education community who expressed their support and concern for our friends [...]
Last year we hosted a Grown Up Digital book club and enjoyed a fantastic webinar with Don Tapscott. Just recently we wrapped up a Wikinomics book club and followed it up with another incredible webinar with Don. So how do we top that? Oh, we have a few ideas! For the next few days, August [...]
If you missed the Don Tapscott webinar last week, here’s your chance to see it! You’ll definitely want to give it a view, because we have a very special offer for you that we’ll be announcing on Monday. Enjoy the archive and check back in to see what else we have cooking. The world needs [...]
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