Sharing Discovery Education
Have you shared Discovery Education with others? A lunch and learn, conference or a PD training? Tell us your story. Check out Dawn Peters and Sarah Thompson’s experience sharing DE with a neighboring school in SK!
Posts By Karen Goldman
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Fall Virtual Conference at Chief Poundmaker
Canadian DEN STARS enjoying some coffee and sweets! Our DEN FAll Virtual Conference experience started at our favorite Canadian coffee shop. We needed a ‘pep me up” for the early start of the day! Thanks STARS for meeting me and driving with me to your school. If I didn’t have you with me I would [...]
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DEN Fall Virtual Conference Site Choosen in Central Saskatchewan!
Our Canadian Webinar Drive has come to and end and we would like to announce the participant with the most points. Congratulations goes out to Sarah Thompson at Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. With a total of 46 points Sarah was ahead of the pack and helped grow the DEN within Canada. This Canadian [...]
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Highlight on New DEN STAR
Cathi Poplar NB3 21st Century Learning Mentor New Brunswick District #2 I am a new DEN STAR Educator and have been actively involved in supporting 21 Century Skills and Project Based learning for the last 8 years, working with staff and students in Kindergarten through Grade Twelve. I strongly believe in collaborative partnerships, and have [...]
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Highlighting our Newest Discovery STAR Educator
Hi! My name is Richard Daley and just became a DEN STAR Educator! What school do you work at and what is your role? I am one of four Technology Mentors for covering 38 schools in our area at School District #2 in New Brunswick, Canada. As a mentor I provide training to students, teachers and [...]
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Points are Soaring and Time is Running Out!!! The Head of the Pack are…..
Congrats and good luck to the leaders of the Membership Drive! Sarah Thompson at Chief Poundmaker School at Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and Rebecca Robins at David Livingstone Elementary in Vancouver, BC are in the lead! Time is running out and you have until October 15th to email me your points karen_goldman@discovery.com Let me [...]
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Highlighting Our Newest DEN STAR! Welcome Tim Johnson!
Hi! My name is Tim Johnson and I am a teacher of 21 years. I taught Grade 5 for 18 years with Grasslands Public Schools in Brooks, Alberta before moving to Medicine Hat, teaching Grade 3for two years with Prairie Rose School Division. I am currently the Technology Leadership Coordinator for Medicine Hat Public Schools. [...]
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Canadian Membership Drive
We want to award the most loyal school! Between now and October 15, 2010 participate in any of the following free activities and your school may be considered to be a host site of the 2010 Fall Virtual Conference. Attend any webinar and receive one point Bring 2 friends to any webinar and receive two [...]
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Gimli, Manitoba the Evergreen Summer Institute
If you haven’t heard of the city of Gimli it’s about time you knew a little about the teachers at Evergreen School Division in Gimli, Manitoba! Not only are the teachers dynamic and creative, they are passionate about using digital technology in their classroom. Teachers were treated to two whole days of professional development at [...]
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Canadian Fall Webinar Series
Fall is right on the corner! Register now for the Canadian Fall Webinar Series. Wednesdays at 5:00 PM CST we will be hosting a “Getting Started With Streaming Webinar.” Discovery education offers a collection of over 100,000 learning objects assembled specifically for K-12 Canadian Classrooms. There are thousands of province-based standards which are aligned to [...]
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Canadian Author Don Tapscott
EdTechConnect with bestselling author, Don Tapscott Monday, September 20th 12:00 PM ET Bestselling author, Don Tapscott, adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Toronto, hosts another Webinar, September 20th, where he will discuss MacroWikinomics, its impact on the world of education and the implications it holds for the future. MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the [...]
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Don’t Miss Out! Become a Discovery Star Educator!
Join this amazing group of educators and take this professional development opportunity and become a Star Discovery Educator! Not only are there a number of perks but DEN Stars are a global community of educators who are passionate about digital media technology throughout their curriculum and are excited to share with other educators. Here’s what [...]
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Social Media Connects DEN STARs
Follow the Discovery Educator social networking community! Keep up with current events, network with other Discovery Education Educators, and share resources.DEN Stars have fully embraced the ever-growing list of social networks. Here are a few of the many social media groups where I have found the DEN has popped up! Got more to share? Let [...]
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Read All About it! DEN Stars in the News.
DEN Stars in the news! The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s article “Discovery Workshops Offer Hampton Educator High-Tech Collaboration” highlights the accomplishments of our fellow Den Stars; Erin Prosser, Jan Abernethy, Linda Michael, and Tracy Blazosky. The Summer Institute 2010 at Bentley University this year, hosted by Discovery Education, receives numerous accolades as our stars describe their amazing [...]
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There is still time! Back to School Webinars 2010
Kudos to those that have joined us for our Back to School Webinars. You are now ready to kick-start the school year prepared with additional content, resources and tools at your fingertips. It’s not too late to join in an exploration of our back to school updates to Discovery Education streaming! We’ll take you behind-the-scenes [...]
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Webinars! What Was Your Vote?
The Webinar results are in! We listened to you! View our Webinars and sign up for one now. If you haven’t voted enter your choice below. Webinars: What Do You Want?customer surveys
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Yippeee! Another new DEN Star!
David Livingstone Elementary, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Written by Rebecca Robins Rebecca Robins: Job: Resource Teacher working with students from grade 1 – 7. My caseload includes support the learning for ESL students, students with a variety of learning challenges including learning disabilities, those on the Autism Spectrum and gifted students. In addition to this [...]
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Highlight Our Newest DEN Star Laurie Cassie from B.C.
David Livingston Elementary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by, Laurie Cassie Laurie Cassie: Job: Grade 6/7 teacher part time and has been the SMART Board mentor for the Vancouver School Board from 2008. Laurie has presented at over 50 Pro-D days around the province. She often speaks about how to make interactive SMART Board [...]
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DEN Summer Institute 2010 Comes to a End
It’s so sad to admit it, but yes, the Summer Institute at Bentley University has ended. The pillows, blankets, sheets and towels are off to the laundry. Keys were turned in. Sharing resources, networking, attending workshop sessions comprised the bulk of the DEN Summer Institute. The Canadian DEN Stars who attended the conferences blogged [...]
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Web 2.0 at the DEN Summer Institute
DEN SI Thursday, July 22 Lloyd Roche Exciting presentation by Hall Davidson, covering soooo many Web 2.0 tools in just an organized manner. We all learned about so many resources that we are anxious to use in classes and to share with colleagues. The breakout sessions were also very useful for me; SMART Notebook with [...]
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Another Fabulous Day DEN Summer Institute
The DEN Summer Institute 2010 – Day 5 by Sarah Thompson Wow, it’s Thursday! We had another great morning of workshops. First, we had a Mashup session with Hall Davidson. I learned about bluescreen transitions, multi-media tools and about wallwisher. Second, I attended the Glogster session with Brad Fountain. This is an amazing tool for [...]
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Educational Resources at the Den Summer Institute
Wednesday, July 21 Lloyd Roche An excellent day of presentations, with so many choices. It would have been fun to be able to attend every session, but I was able to attend Matt’s session on 25 Free Things in DE. Excellent information!! I would have liked to attend the advanced Deep Dive session also but [...]
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Dive Workshops at DEN Summer Institute
The DEN Summer Institute 2010 – Day 4 by Sarah Thompson Today was deep dive workshop day!! The first session I attended was for Google tools with Mike Bryant. I had no idea that Google offered so many tools! Google docs, labs, spreadsheets, and trends are just a few of the tools that were touched [...]
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Another Interesting Day…. Den Summer Institute
July 20, Tuesday at DEN SI Lloyd Roche Another very interesting day with lots of new knowledge gained. My missing luggage was finally delivered by the airlines. Thankfully Carissa was available to receive it when delivered to the dorms. I was given the honor of looking after the “Claw” for the day. My ‘gift’ also [...]
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Another Fun-Filled Educational Day at the Summer Institute
The DEN Summer Institute 2010 – Day 3 by Sarah Thompson Today was an amazing, fun-filled, educational day! I experienced a full FIZZ workshop with Dr. Lodge McCammon. We started off our session with a video scavenger hunt. The goal – to capture a 30 second one take video of 10 different ideas. Each idea [...]
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