One of the big buzz terms of the last few years has been “Digital Storytelling.” Teachers of all grades want to integrate digital storytelling into their curriculum to enhance student learning. This has the added benefit of being fun and creating a pretty impressive final product that can be published and viewed anywhere. You can’t [...]
I pretty much have two main ways I bookmark things. I use Diigo (like Delicious, but better) for most things that I want to save and categorize. These are things that I may not need every day, I may need from multiple computers, I want to share with others or I may need to search [...]
This tip is for those teachers who occasionally write letters on their computer and then email them off without ever touching a sheet of actual paper. For instance, if you apply for a job and need to upload a letter of introduction or if you email a document to your office, it needs to be [...]
The Innovative Learning Conference is one of the premier Ed-tech events in California and it’s quickly approaching (Oct 14-16). If you plan on attending be sure to take advantage of Discovery’s opportunities, including a very generous $40 discount on registration fees, a preconference event and rockin dinner. I remember the ol’ days when I used [...]
After recent posts about Firefox capabilities and tricks, as well as Microsoft’s latestversion of Internet Explorer, I thought it would be appropriate to provide a link to Google’s latest venture into the browser world. Check out “Google Chrome” here. They have some nifty new features not found in other browsers, like the ability to add [...]
I’m sure the folks at Microsoft read one of my previous postings about how I prefer Firefox and it inspired them. The newest version of Internet Explorer is out and has some pretty groovy new features. Check out IE 8 Beta 2 and read the review by EWeek here. I have to say that one [...]
I like to multitask. At any given time I usually have about 6 different application windows up and running on my laptop (not to mention all the items running in the background). So, it would follow that I similarly have a ton of tabs open in Firefox. Here are two tips for those wanting to [...]
These come via Twitter courtesy of DEN member Fred Delventhal. If I had to follow one ed tech leader on Twitter I think Fred would be the one. Check out his blog here. Some of the latest: Google Apps Tips 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks Ways to Exhibit Student Art on the Internet
If you use Tiny URL or Twitter… See for yourself: http://tinypaste.com/10dea Techcrunch review Check out the Firefox extension too Could this be used for annotations and citations? What if you/student used a photo in a project and simply used a TinyPaste link to credit the author or photographer? Would that be a legal way to [...]
This is a cross-post of a previous National Blog Post: Discovery Education is excited to announce many new GREAT additions coming your way to streaming! This includes the long awaited and asked for Student Center where your students will have ability to log on and download media, better correlation with your state standards, more refined [...]
This past February Google released a great new tool for educators, students, business’s and all around website needing folks. This new creation is Google Sites. Google Sites claims it fills the need of sharing a group website, which seems to be part wiki, part blog and part modular website. I found Sites to be pretty [...]
Everyone loves educational games. Learn and have fun. What a treat! I love Jeopardy! There, I’ve said it; I’m one of them. I even tried out for the show in Hollywood once (didn’t make it ). Perhaps you’ve heard of the Jeopardy PowerPoint that has been floating around the internet for along time now. It’s [...]
I’ve been noticing a pattern in my reading over the last few years. I love reading magazines and other periodicals. There are just so many new ideas, inventions and news all the time; it’s tough to keep up. I do my best with paper periodicals, but it never seems to satisfy me. Then it hit [...]
If you are using Google Docs (and Spreadsheets and Presentations…) you’ll be happy to hear about some of their latest changes and additions. Some of the cool ones are the ability to create forms and have people fill them out. Then when they are updated you can view the data in your aggregator. Some people [...]
The California DE leadership council is proud to host an April bash at our DEN Director, Jannita Demian’s home. The entire Discovery Educator Network team is going to be there so don’t miss out. Hall Davidson, Steve Dembo, Scott Kinney, Lance Rougeux, Kim Randall, Matt Monjan, Justin Karkow, Brad Fountain, Mike Bryant and Dennis Swain [...]
DEN Celebration at Palm Springs CUE Conference! Come join your fellow DEN members and their guests on Friday March 7 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm for an evening at Boomer’s. There will be free race car driving, rock wall climbing, mini-golf, bumper boats and free food. This event promises to be a lot of fun, but [...]
If you’re planning on attending California’s largest conference on educational technology, you should know about special offers and events for DEN members and their guests. On Thursday, March 6 from 9:30 am to 3:30pm Discovery Education is presenting a “Media Makeover” pre-conference day. This day will include several different sessions on how to incorporate technology [...]
Call for Presentations- passed on to you from your caring DEN friends We must receive your submission by Monday, February 18. Each year, TechEd’s most popular hands-on lab is the Adobe Lab. Attendees literally line up to learn the latest Adobe Software. Usually Adobe takes care of all the details, including providing the trainers… but [...]
While these tools are great, please, please, check with your district’s/school’s teacher acceptable use policy before using them. Many districts block certain sites for many reasons. We don’t want any teachers “in trouble” for going around the system…. ~DEN Management I’ve had a lot of success using the online file conversion tool, Zamzar. I’ve used [...]
I teach elementary school (there, I said it. Please don’t judge me ) In my classroom, I like to use quiet music in the background when students are working. I know a lot of teachers find the value in a peaceful work environment and students working quietly to the sound of Enya (or something else [...]
We all have our favorite websites for learning. I’m talking about sites that provide useful tools, frequently Web 2.0 style. These are mostly things that we couldn’t even have imagined in a desktop environment a few years ago, let alone on the web. With thousands of great sites out there, and more coming every day, [...]
Last week I decided to do my periodic check of Google’s latest products. I usually just go here and scan the list to see if there is anything I haven’t yet used. One tool that has been around for a little while is Google Notebook. I’ve heard about educators and students using it, but had [...]
“The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind – computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with [...]
I just really wanted to say “nomenclature” so I thought I’d write an entire post on it. Actually, I had been a bit confused by the changes in names of some Discovery products over the last few months and wanted to get a few things cleared up. In particular, I was curious about the new [...]
Welcome to guest blogger, Herman Bautista, a DEN member from Santa Ana, California. Herman writes us his account of a recent DEN event: I was lucky enough to win a spot in one of AFI’s Screen Education classes. As a sort of “thank you” for allowing me to attend, I’ve agreed to provide a guest [...]
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