A continuation of Cache and Cookie’s Animal Alphabet Series! Kindergarten through second grade teachers may engage their students through DE streaming’s 25 minute full video titled “Animal Alphabet.” This video cleverly uses the animal kingdom to teach students their alphabet. You can also use this video’s segments to engage students–one letter at a time. [...]
Happy Mousey Monday from Cache and Cookies! Professor Mousey wants to bring to your attention the different Media Streaming Settings available to you under your Discovery Education account. The streaming settings can be changed by selecting the pinwheel icon at the bottom right corner of the video. Once you have selected the pinwheel, the [...]
Today and tomorrow marks our final set of Back to School 2012 webinars and we’re bringing it all back home with a special webinar devoted to the administrative functions of the website. Here is a brief synopsis of the topic: Would you like your students to have anywhere, anytime access to Discovery Education? In this [...]
Happy Mousey Monday! Did you know that schools with active Discovery Education licenses can create user accounts for students as well? Well you can! There are two ways to create student user accounts: Teacher-Created Student Accounts 1. Teachers can access the Classroom Manager from anywhere on the site by clicking on Classroom Manager. [...]
A continuation of Cache and Cookie’s Animal Alphabet Series! Kindergarten through second grade teachers may engage their students through DE streaming’s 25 minute full video titled “Animal Alphabet.” This video cleverly uses the animal kingdom to teach students their alphabet. You can also use this video’s segments to engage students–one letter at a time. [...]
As our resident talking canine mentioned yesterday, this week’s webinar focuses on how to actively engage students using our Discovery Education services. A continuation of our Back To School Webinar Series, this webinar is great for teachers and administrators alike. Here is a brief synopsis of the event: Put the power of learning at your [...]
Happy Mousey Monday to our Cache and Cookie readers! We have Webinars this week to get our teachers up to speed with Discovery Education during Back to School time! Here is a schedule of upcoming Webinars for this week: Sep 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm EDT – DE Science Middle School 101 [...]
A continuation of Cache and Cookie’s Animal Alphabet Series! Kindergarten through second grade teachers may engage their students through DE streaming’s 25 minute full video titled “Animal Alphabet.” This video cleverly uses the animal kingdom to teach students their alphabet. You can also use this video’s segments to engage students–one letter at a time. [...]
For those that missed the Exciting Enhancements to Discovery Education webinars last week, you still have two chances to catch them! The webinars will again be presented today, Wednesday September 12th and tomorrow, Thursday September 13th. Don’t miss your chance to get a peek at the great new updates that we’re offering this year! Here’s [...]
Most Americans remember exactly where they were and the unfolding of events on that clear September morning 11 years ago. Living in the DC metropolitan area, the impact of the day could not be ignored as the airspace where passenger jets flew by every day without much notice on my part were replaced by fighter [...]
Mousey Monday is back! Did you miss Professor Mousey last week? Today he wants to help our account and site administrators locate their school Passcodes. Steps to Locating a Passcode for a Site Administrator (at the school level) 1. Log into your DE user account. 2. Click “My Admin” in the upper right hand [...]
A continuation of Cache and Cookie’s Animal Alphabet Series! Kindergarten through second grade teachers may engage their students through DE streaming’s 25 minute full video titled “Animal Alphabet.” This video cleverly uses the animal kingdom to teach students their alphabet. You can also use this video’s segments to engage students–one letter at a time. [...]
The Eagle has landed. Those four words were uttered as a watershed moment for humankind occurred. All the promises that the late John F. Kennedy had put forth nearly a decade before had been kept: the United States had put a man on the moon. This moment wasn’t just a triumph in the long [...]
Hi all! It’s back to school season and everyone’s shaking off the lazy glow of summer and launching headfirst into the brand new school year. This week, we have a brand new webinar series that documents the exciting enhancements to Discovery Education. The first webinar will be presented today, Wednesday September 5 at 7 PM [...]
A continuation of Cache and Cookie’s Animal Alphabet Series! Kindergarten through second grade teachers may engage their students through DE streaming’s 25 minute full video titled “Animal Alphabet.” This video cleverly uses the animal kingdom to teach students their alphabet. You can also use this video’s segments to engage students–one letter at a time. [...]
As Mousey mentioned yesterday, Discovery Education is continuing to offer special weekly webinars designed to help teachers and students transition into the brand new school year with our various services. The focus this week will be on the administrative and user management functions for the site. Administrators will learn how to navigate My Admin, update user [...]
Happy Mousey Monday to our Cache and Cookies readers! Today Professor Mousey wants to emphasize our Discovery Educator Network (DEN), which is available to all Discovery Education teachers and administrators. The DEN is overflowing with goodies for you. Educator Resources, Blogs, Forums, an Event Gallery and last but not least, Webinars! These web-based seminars are [...]
Kindergarten through second grade teachers may engage their students through DE streaming’s 25 minute full video titled “Animal Alphabet.” This video cleverly uses the animal kingdom to teach students their alphabet. You can also use this video’s segments to engage students–one letter at a time. Every Friday for the next few weeks we will be [...]
The Discovery Education webinar series continues this week, this time focusing on engaging your students with Discovery Education! There will be two sessions, with the first session being held on Wednesday, August 22 at 7 PM EST and the second session being held on Thursday, August 23 at 4 PM EST. The general information [...]
Did you know that Closed Captioning is available on a majority of Discovery Education videos and for most video formats? Yes, it is! Winnie Kwok from our Sales team had asked us to spread the word about Closed [...]
Discovery’s Shark Week began August 12, 2012 at 9:00pm EST! Discovery Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland welcomed back Chompie, the inflatable shark, to celebrate the 25 year long run of shark programming on [...]
This very special blog post comes from our very own Beau Horner: A lot of you proactive administrators out there are already getting your ducks in a row for Back-to-School time. We’ve been receiving a lot of inquiries about how to update student grades in our system. This can be achieved by utilizing our Bulk [...]
On Wednesday, August 15th and Thursday, August 16th, Discovery Education will be presenting a webinar that’ll help you transition into the multitude of new updates for our services. Join us on either date to find out how Discovery Education is going mobile, social, and adding even more functionality for you and your students. In this webinar, [...]
It’s Back to School time and Professor Mousey is here to help with bulk imports of teacher and student accounts. Here’s his three favorite import tips: 1. Usernames must be unique relative to the entire Discovery Education database, not just unique to your school or school district. Common usernames such as “johnsmith” will already [...]
The 2012 Day of Discovery was held at Chicago’s very own John G. Shedd Aquarium this past Monday! A very different experience for me, as I was used to these Day of Discovery events being held at various schools instead of [...]
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