The Leadership Council members at this year’s symposium started the day with a 3-hour session of FIZZ with, Dr. Lodge McCammon. We actively learned about user-created videos in the classroom. There were a lot of creative ideas coming from the groups, and the products were just awesome. After a great morning with Lodge McCammon, we [...]
Advent calendars were a tradition at our house while our children were growing up. It was exciting just to see what shape the chocolate was under each flap. I don’t really think they even liked the chocolate. It was just the thrill of the unknown! This Countdown to Christmas wiki, an advent calendar for teachers, [...]
Join the Kansas Leadership Council and other Discovery Educators on June 5, 2009 from 8:30 to 4:00 at the KS Cosmosphere. Working in partnership with the Kansas Cosmosphere (www.cosmo.org) participants will create podcasts, enhanced podcasts, vodcasts, or even digital stories. Each participant will select one artifact from the Cosmosphere and then research additional material from [...]
Curious about Geocaching? Want to learn how geocaching may be used in your classroom? Come and join us for a fun day of geocaching at the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita, KS on May 30th. This first ever event is sponsored by Discovery Education Network, WPS Instructional Technology Department and the Great Plains Nature [...]
Spring Into Action with the DEN and join thousands of educators who are passionate about integrating media into their instruction and collaborating with each other to improve student achievement. During this unique (and free) professional development event you have the flexibility to attend online or in-person at one of many regional events hosted by the [...]
DEN Spring Training is here! We’ve had a lot of new recruits in the past year and we expect big things from the community this spring. Last year the stat we focused on the most was ESA (Earned STAR Average). This year we are looking for STARs who put up solid numbers in the RS [...]
Hall Davidson provided the keynote for the MACE conference at KSU in Manhattan on March 5, 2009. As usual, Hall’s energy and enthusiasm were contagious as teachers laughed and learned how today’s technologies can (and should) engage and teach a new generation of students. Watch the ustream of the keynote at: http://www.ustream.tv/dmantz7/videos Thanks Dean for [...]
piclits – Get your kids writing! delicious – Social bookmarking. wordle – Create word clouds. xtranormal – Create 3d videos. glogster – Create a wall to share with your students. grooveshark – Find and listen to ANY song! zamzar – Convert video to different formats. Convert PDF’s to Docs. Become a STAR Discovery Educator and [...]
Around 50 educators attended the Day of Discovery at the KSU Alumni Center. Justin Karkow spent the morning sharing the basics of Discovery Education streaming and showing teachers many ways to inegrate videos, images and audio clips into their curriculum. After a fabulous box lunch provided by KSU catering, the group spent 30 minutes Speed [...]
Hope you are one of the lucky ones who gets to join Justin Karkow and THE HALL DAVIDSON for the Day of Discovery on March 4, 2009 in Manhattan, KS. Check out the revised schedule for the day. Come ready to meet some great people, learn some great ways to integrate digital media into your [...]
MACE Day of Discovery Agenda to Download
Kansas Discovery Educators are in for a treat when Justin Karkow and Hall Davidson host a Day of Discovery on March 4, 2009 at the KSU Alumni Center. The day will provide Kansas educators and welcomed guests an exciting and enriching day of professional development focused on creative ways to use digital media in the [...]
The Kansas Leadership Team would like to welcome Jim Clark from Wichita to the team. Jim has been a leader in the Wichita area, getting many educators involved in Discovery Education Streaming. Jim hosted an event on Oct 18 in Wichita attended by 50 educators. The presentations from the day are available here: http://technology.usd259.org/resources/unitedstreaming/index.htm. Please [...]
Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. You can print them, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share. Try one [...]
Woo Hoo #1! Hall Davidson will be coming to Kansas to be the Keynote speaker at the March MACE Conference in Manhattan on March 5th, 2009. Mark your calendars for this conference and be sure to sign up early as this conference usually reaches maximum attendance. Woo Hoo #2! Justin Karkow, our regional account manager, [...]
DEN Spring Training is back! This year the DEN coaches are scouting talent for the All-STAR team as well as looking for some new prospects to join the DEN squad. You have a couple ways to impress the coaches during DEN Spring Training and earn some DEN gear. Renegotiate Your Contract Every year STAR Discovery [...]
How do you keep track of all the resources you download from the web? The videos, the photos, the clip art, pdfs, etc. Maybe you start a word processing document and put the citation there. But that really takes time and can easily get separated from the resource. Here’s a very simple way. Let’s use [...]
Reading Educational blogs can help us to keep current on education issues. Following are a few blogs that I have found helpful when trying to infuse 21st Century Skills into my classes. 2¢ Worth – Teaching & Learning in the new information landscape: David Warlick Weblogg-ed – Learning with the Read/write Web: Will Richardson Expanding [...]
Garfield Upper Elementary announced that it has received a $2,000 Teach Award from Best Buy Co., Inc. for integrating interactive technology into its curriculum. Class members of Dan Brown’s Fifth Grade used their video production skills to produce a film that was entered into a national competition. Students wrote the script, shot the video, edited [...]
Today, your Kansas leadership team presented a session at the MACE (Mid-America Computers in Education) Conference at the Alumni Center at K-State. The session explained how to become a Discovery STAR Educator. If you were at the session or would like more information about becoming a STAR Educator, please post a comment here.
What teacher wouldn’t want to look 10 years younger? Here’s a surefire way! Grab an iPod. That’s right, pick up an iPod and wear the little white earbuds. Amazingly enough, students will think you are 10 years younger. Recently my daughter had to have x-rays for kidney stones. When she came back to the waiting [...]
Dan Brown, 5th grade teacher, has students view UnitedStreaming videos individually or in groups of two. Evaluation of how well they spent their time is often difficult to figure. He has used the following techniques to determine students’ level of understanding. * Students must stop their videos every 5 minutes and write three ” I [...]
Connect with educators from all over the country during this unique professional development experience where you can attend in-person, online or both. The DEN Virtual Conference is a national event that provides educators a unique opportunity to experience Discovery Education’s high-quality professional development. Participants have the flexibility to attend the DEN Virtual Conference online or [...]
In visiting a fourth grade classroom recently, I found some students under their desks, some sitting at their desks, others lying on their stomachs on the floor. They were all writing. The teacher had announced they would write for 20 minutes. When time was up the students begged for more time. Realizing the students were [...]
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