A sweet two days in Albertville, AL. Albertville City Schools was kind enough to host an afternoon workshop and the Stream-A-Thon. Educators from the region joined DEN Leadership Council member Carolyn Rains and I for back-to-back days of professional development and networking. Attendees were given an overview of the all new Back-to-School features added to DE streaming, in addition to examples of ways to utilize digital media in the classroom.
We joined the Stream-A-Thon just in time to catch Lance Rougeux’s “A Day in the Life” session. After the virtual sesion, we shared teacher contributed examples and of course had time for a little networking.
The cake above, thank you to Carolyn Rains, was as with anything that has the DEN logo, delicious!
If you’re a Texas DEN member, you won’t want to miss our very first Fotowalk. It’s happening on Saturday and looks to be quite an exciting event!
This Saturday, September 12th, four cities will be hosting a photo walk for DEN teachers. Our photo walk will start at 9am at one location in each city and the group will walk together taking photographs of anything and everything following a set route. Upon the conclusion of the walk, teachers will meet together to share our favorite photos of the day and vote for our favorite 3 photos. Each city will award a Discovery Channel DVD to the three local winners. During the following two weeks, all Texas DEN Teachers will be able to vote on their favorite photo from all of the Saturday winners for one more round of Best Of Awards.
If you’re interested in learning more, visit the Texas blog.
If you live in California, then keep an eye out for the Discovery Education road show, coming to a location near you! Come explore the recent changes to the site as the DE team takes participants on a guided tour of the new-and-improved Discovery Education streaming (aka unitedstreaming). Throughout the day, we’ll examine all of the site’s new look and feel, find out how your students can access the DE streaming 24/7, and even play with some of the new interactives.
Topics include:
- Discovery Education is Pretty Suite
- 50 ways to use Discovery Education streaming
- Creating Digital Stories with Discovery Education streaming media
- Powering up with Powerpoint
- And more!
When and Where:
- Contra Costa County Office of Education, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:00am - 1:00pm
- Alameda Unified School District Alameda Adult School, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:30am-12:30pm
- Lodi Unified School District, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:00pm-8:00pm
- San Francisco Unified School District, Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:00am- 3:00pm
Click on any of the links above to register today!
NECC is just under a week away, and we hope you’re as jazzed for it as we are! Our home on the conference floor will be Booth #3228 and we’ve got a packed schedule there. You’ll be able to see presentations such as:
- Discovery the Possibilities with Discovery Educaiton Digital Services
- Multimedia Einsteins: Discovery Education Science
- Using Multimedia in the Classroom with Mimio
- 50 Ways To Use Discovery Education streaming
- Bring 21st Century Teaching to Your Classrooms: Professional Development that Works
- Connecting Formative Assessment to the Power of Digital Media
And who will be presenting these sessions? None other than your favorite DE and DEN presenters, including Hall Davidson, Lance Rougeux, Steve Dembo, Matt Monjan, Jen Dorman, Eren Koont, Alex Morrison, and more!
Download the complete Discovery Education Booth Schedule
Don’t forget though, that’s just a fraction of what we’re doing at NECC. Be sure to attend the special Using Multimedia in the Classroom session we’re hosting with Mimio and the four DEN spotlight sessions.
Look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Today, Discovery Student Adventures: South Africa took us to the very bottom of the continent, the Cape of Good Hope. Pictured here are Linda Rush, Karen Wells and Jason Cochrane, who have now earned an honorary DENny for being at the southernmost DEN event yet!
To read about our cage dive with great white sharks, trip to the Cape of Good Hope, or adventures with African penguins, visit the DSA: South Africa blog!!
Over 1,000 people participated in the Spring Virtual Conference this year, many from the very beginning until the bitter end! But just in case you blinked and missed a session or two, we’ve now posted the archives from the day for you to review, enjoy and share with others. If you go to the Virtual Conference page, you’ll find session descriptions, view links and embed codes for each of the sessions from the day.
One thing to note, if you watch the files online, you’ll notice that the chat is a little hard to read. However, if you download the files you’ll find that they were recorded in High-rez and the downloaded versions can be played full screen, which makes the chat very readable.
Enjoy!
I think the title says it all! It was quite a long day, and my brain feels just a little oversaturated, but more than anything I feel full of new ideas that I can’t wait to try out myself. But that’s me…
Let’s hear about YOUR Virtual Conference experience!
Did you attend an in-person event? How was it?
What was your favorite session? What were your big takeaways for the day?
What could we be doing differently to make this a more enjoyable experience for you?
Take a few minutes and share your feedback!
On Monday evening, as the final meeting of the first DEN Book Club, we will be joined by the author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott himself! He will be sharing his own perspective on the NetGeneration and the impact they will be having on the world of education.
This webinar will be open to all members of the Discovery Education community, whether you participated in the book club or not. If you would like to attend, please visit here to register.
About Grown Up Digital: Poised to transform every social institution, the Net Generation is reshaping the form and functions of school, work, and even democracy. Simply put, the wave of youth, aged 12-30, the first truly global generation, is impacting all institutions.
Particularly, employers, instructors, parents, marketers and political leaders are finding it necessary to adapt to the changing social fabric due to this generation’s unique characteristics. Within its comprehensive examination of the Net Generation, and based on a 4.5 million dollar study, Don Tapscott’s Grown Up Digital offers valuable insight and concrete takeaways for leaders across all social institutions.
Quick post with more to follow.
Steve Dembo, Mike Bryant and a ton of STAR Discovery Educators have and are currently presenting at the ICE Conference here in St. Charles, IL. The Second Life and Illinois DEN Leadership Councils joined us for a wonderful dinner on Wednesday at McNally’s in downtown St. Charles (Pictures to follow soon). Over 75 STAR Discovery Educators joined us last night for the Discovery Education & Comcast Networking Social, held at the Pheasant Run Conference Center (Pictures to follow).
Session Presentations:
Pump Up the Volume: Ten Ways to Engage Auditory Learners
PowerPoint Download
Quicktime Download
Extreme Makeover: Education Edition
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Little Hands, Giant Reach
Powerpoint Download (Zip file with media forthcoming)
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