Over 1600 educators attended the DEN Virtual Conference last Saturday and I think about 1300 of them emailed me to ask when the archives will be available! Well, thanks for waiting patiently, and now your patience is being rewarded!
The entire Virtual Conference, all seven hours of it, has now been posted online! If you go to the Virtual Conference page, you’ll be able to view any of the presentations online, or if you like you can click on the title link to download them and watch them full screen in all their hi-rez glory.
Don’t forget, you’ll always be able to find them within the DEN Educator Resources section as well, if you’d like to embed them in your own blog or website.
Did you attend the Virtual Conference? If so, share your favorite memory of the day with us! We’d love to hear some stories from around the country.
Where are all the STARs? Presenting at state and national conferences near you, that’s where! We’ve put together an ever-growing list of presentations by STAR Discovery Educators at state and national conferences around the country. If you are attending a conference listed below, please stop by and show your support for your fellow STARs.
And don’t forget, if YOU are going to be presenting at a state or national conference, if you include Discovery Education in the title or description then you really ought to let us know. We’d love to add you to the list, and we also have a little something to send you! If you’d like to learn more, visit this page.
After four years of the DEN we know two things about conference season.
1) People love sessions about Discovery content.
2) Our STARs are always shining.
So, we want to recognize the awesome presentations our STAR Discovery Educators lead at conferences around the globe.
If you are accepted to present at a state-level or national conference and you have Discovery in the title and/or session description we want to support you in the following ways.
Fame and fortune: we will advertise your session(s) on the blog and website. In some cases where Discovery has a corporate room or booth we’ll even promote your sessions in our conference materials.
Swag: we will send you a DEN Presenter’s polo that you can wear proudly at the conference.
Materials and prizes: we will send DE literature and a few prizes to you to give to your attendees. For example, if you are leading a session about DE Science we can send quickstart guides for everyone.
Sound good? All we need now is for you to let us know. As soon as your session is accepted complete this form and we’ll do our best to support you and make you even more famous than you already are.
Here’s a list of conferences and proposal deadlines to get you started. If we’ve missed any, please leave a comment so we can add them to the list!
- Arizona Technology in Education Alliance, October 1 2009, January 23 2010, and May 1 2010. Call for proposals is open.
- Indiana Computer Using Educators, October 9 2009.
- South Carolina EdTech 2009, October 14-16, 2009.
- Massachusetts Computer Using Educators, October 28-29, 2009.
- Virginia’s Educational Technology Leadership Conference, October 28-30 2009. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Sept. 23.
- Georgia Educational Technology Conference , November 4-6, 2009. Call for proposals is open now, deadline says Sept 6th, but seems to still be open.
- New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Conference, November 22-24, 2009.
- Virginia Society for Technology in Education, November 30-December 2 2009. Call for proposals is open.
- Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference, Nashua, New Hampshire, December 1-3, 2009. Deadline is passed, but proposals are still being accepted for Thursday Share-A-Thon
- Tennessee Education TechnologyConference, December 2-4, 2009. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Sept. 30.
- Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educator’sConference December 2-4 2009. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Oct 2.
- Florida Educational Technology Coorporation, January 12-15, 2010.
- eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference, February 1-3, 2010. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Oct 7.
- Midwest Education Technology Conference, Missouri, February 8-10, 2010. Call for proposals is open.
- Texas Computer Education Association Conference, February 8-12, 2010
- Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference, February 21-24, 2010. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Sept.30
- Illinois Technology Conference for Educators, February 23 -26, 2010. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Oct 1 .
- Northwest Council for Computer Education, Seattle, Washington, March 2-5, 2010.
- Wisconsin Technology Education Association, March 4-5, 2010. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Dec 23 .
- California Computer Using Educators, March 4-6, 2010. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Sept 11.
- Mid-America Association for Computers in Education, March 4-5 201, Call for proposals is open, deadline is January 11.
- Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning, March 10-12, 2010. Call for proposals is open, deadline is Sept 29.
I’m in Erie, Pennsylvania, for the 3CsETC. I’m excited to have the opportunity to meet so many from my PLN.
What is 3CsETC?
The 3Cs ETC Conference is a collaborative effort between NPAECT, IU5, CFF Coaches and the LEARN Initiative. The conference name was created using 3Cs (Connect, Communicate, Collaborate), which NPAECT has used as their day-conference theme in the spring and fall of 2008 combined with ETC (Educational Technology Conference) which was added to 3Cs as the conference joined forces with CFF and LEARN.
NPAECT, LEARN and CFF and IU5 separately were working toward the same goal of assisting teachers in changing their teaching practices using technology as an integral part of their curriculum, so this collaboration made perfect sense.
One goal of 3Cs ETC is to provide quality professional development and training and to host engaging and motivating keynote speakers, conference presenters, and hands-on learning opportunities to educators in the northwest Pennsylvania region. Our second goal is to develop a vibrant professional learning community of 21st century teachers who recognize the rapid changes in our world that demand changes in our classroom instruction and who are willing to invest in a vastly different educational system that still focuses on challenging our students to succeed.
Here are my presentation resources for my keynote and concurrent sessions. You can access more conference resources on the 3CsETC website and Ning network.
Power Up Your Professional Learning Network - Keynote
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Creating Online Class Communities - Concurrent Session
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Learning 2.0 – Engaging 21st Century Learners - Concurrent Session
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Thinking Outside the Slide: Non Linear Multimedia Presentations - Concurrent Session
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Or maybe this should have been entitled “Full Sail ‘09.2/DENNI ‘09.1.” I thought I had posted a few thoughts while trying to switch gears a week ago after taking three planes from the Apple Institute in Orlando to the DEN National Institute near San Francisco (literally in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge). Except for switching oceans and time zones, I felt like I was in the same place: the themes of the institutes and the commitment of the attending educators were very similar. There were project teams and time set aside for individuals to share with the whole group. I am still digesting the Apple stay at Full Sail University and the DEN National Institute experiences (as well as NECC) and eventually will have lots of sites to share. To get you started, watch this video explaining Challenge Based Learning by the SFETT alums who have grown up to be Alas Media.
Into my second day of learning and sharing here with other Apple Distinguished Educators at Full Sail University in Orlando. So far I have been inspired by two amazing keynote speakers, FSU alum Jayson Whitmore (3 masters degrees and valedictorian each time) and Ray Zahab of Impossible to Possible (for starters he ran across the Sahara!), “branded” by the Improv Lady (Rebecca Stockley), and challenged with a Challenge Based Learning project about using student made videos to personalize learning.
Picture by Digimom13 on Flickr.
Well, I must have gotten a little distracted reading everyone else’s musings on the very last NECC (it will be the ISTE Conference from now on). I can’t believe it’s taken me a week to put together a few thoughts on Hall Davidson’s “8 Things You didn’t know you could do with Video (and 2 You did).” Of course, Hall had a lot more than ten tips to share and you can get the whole list from his Discovery Education Speakers’ Bureau handouts page (the PDF is a quicker download). On the list (for both Mac and PC): a PPT trick to keep a video going over a number of slides, green screen/chromakey fun, QuickTime Pro, screen capture programs, Google Earth, cell phones, Film on the Fly, fun with reversing clips… You get the idea.
Not a NECC reflection, but a reminder - “Science of the Movies” visits the Jim Henson workshop on Thursday night.
I have to admit to myself (and you) that I just can’t put together cogent, well thought out blogposts when I’m caught up in the swirl of a conference like NECC. Keynotes, debates, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, chance encounters, vendor visits, old friends, new friends… I think I just need to serve things up as little more than 140 character Plurk/Tweets until I get home and can distill some of this overpowering input. So, with that off my chest, I attended our annual birds of a feather Digital Storytelling SIG for just 30 minutes this afternoon and got this gem to share from PBS’s Frontline. They are putting a new spin on “work in progress” and inviting us to not only look and listen in, but also to be part of the story. Digital Nation is a documentary that will air in January 2010. Watch how it progresses and maybe take part in it yourself.
Watch this morning’s debate about the role/future of bricks and mortar schools. Though they declared a single winner, we all win by listening to these well thought out statements by some well known educators and two very eloquent high school students.
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