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
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Quicktime Download
Extreme Makeover: Education Edition
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Little Hands, Giant Reach
Powerpoint Download (Zip file with media forthcoming)
There’s quite a few exiting webinars in the next few weeks that I’m sure you won’t want to miss! First of all, as our next EdTechConnect presenter we have Dr. Tim Tyson. While I had known of him for years, the first time I saw him speak was when he was the closing keynote at NECC. He made quite an impression on me and had been on my radar to try to get to present for us ever since. As a former principal and digital storytelling guru, he has a unique perspective on technology and how to empower “you to make learning even more irresistible for the students in your classroom and school.”
Register here to attend EdTechConnect with Dr. Tim Tyson.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg though. We also have a brand new series of webinars to help you start off the new year “Digitally Fit.” On January 13th, 27th, and February 10th, the DEN team will be sharing a few one hour workouts that’ll get you working up a sweat! Join the DEN team and flex your digital muscles! Just click on the dates and times that fit into your own workout schedule.
Workout # 1: Checking Your Digital Pulse
January 13 at 4 PM and 7 PM EST
Workout # 2: Muscle Up with Media
January 27 at 4 PM and 7 PM EST
Workout # 3: Weigh In & Share
February 10 at 4 PM and 7 PM EST
Lastly, as many of you know we’ve performed a major upgrade to the DEN website! From a snazzed up front page, to live chat, to full integration of the Educator Resources into Discovery Education Media Share, I think you’ll be amazed by all the new features we’ve packed into the site! If you’d like a personal tour, stop by any of the following webinars and see what the new DEN site can do for you.
- Monday, January 12, 5 PM EST
- Wednesday, January 14, 1 PM EST
- Thursday, January 15, 7 PM EST
- Tuesday, January 20, 12 PM EST
- Monday, January 26, 5 PM EST
- Wednesday, January 28, In Second Life at 8 PM EST
- Thursday, January 29, 2 PM EST
How good was the Virtual Conference? So good that you need to share it. So good you need to watch it again. So good that you need to add each presentation to your iTunes library so you have it on demand whenever somebody asks you what the best professional development you’ve attended this year was.
Ok, maybe I’m exagerating just slightly, but in all seriousness, the presentations were phenomenal. One after another just blew attendees away. And as many of you know, often the most valuable part of the presentation isn’t just what the presenter has to say, it’s what the audience shares in the chat room! That’s why when we posted the archives, we included the chat windows as well, which shows up in real time!
So visit the Virtual Conference landing page and you can enjoy all 5 presentations again and again. Share them with your colleagues. Share them with your administrators. Share them with your family! And don’t forge,t if you enjoyed the presentations, let the presenters know you did by leaving a comment on the page for them.
BTW, due to the fact that they are all archived in hi-rez with audio, video and chat, they’re big files. About 100MB or so. Keep that in mind when downloading!
Enjoy!
The DEN team is going to be at ILC 2008 this year, and we hope that you will too! We’ve partnered up with the ILC team and gotten permission to extend a $40 discount to any DEN members who pre-register for the conference.
The Innovative Learning Conference (ILC) 2008, will be held October 14-16 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. Now through Oct. 10, DEN members can get a $40 discount off conference Early Bird fees when they enter the promotional code ORG40 during registration. If you are a STAR Discovery Educator and you’ve already pre-registered, send an email to hall_davidson@discovery.com and you’ll recieve information for how to get credit for the discount.
ILC 2008 is a “must-attend” professional development opportunity, offering educators, administrators and technology leaders a chance to experience first-hand the latest innovations in classroom technology. More than 150 concurrent sessions and nearly 40 workshops will provide thought-provoking strategies, applications and practices. ILC 2008 will also feature an expansive exhibit hall where attendees can view the latest products and services from some of the nation’s leading technology companies, with more than 100 top solution providers in attendance. To learn more, visit their webite.
As requested by hundreds of people (literally), we have now posted the vast majority of the 2008 DE streamathon presentations as archives! If you visit our streamathon page you’ll see that most of the presentations are now hyperlinked. Click on a hyperlink and you will begin to download a high resolution archive of that presentation. Each archive is about 100-200 MB so the downloads may take a little while. However, we wanted to make sure we provided them to you in high resolution so you’d be able to see all the live demonstrations just as they happened the day of.
We hope that you enjoy attending sessions you couldn’t be at that day. And if you learned something from a session, be sure to share it with your colleagues! The more people that learn from these presentations, the better.
Don’t forget! If you enjoyed the streamathon, you’ll love the other webinars we have to offer. Visit our webinar registration page and see what suits your needs. Hundreds of webinars are listed there, all of which are FREE and open to all educators!
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