I have been a Discovery Educator Network (DEN) STAR and part of the Louisiana DEN Leadership Council since 2009. As part of this wonderful organization, I have participated in so many wonderful events sponsored by Discovery Education including Day of Discovery in Silver Springs, Maryland and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the DEN Leadership Council Symposium in [...]
The Discovery Education Louisiana Leadership Council is excited to host a Discovery event in south Louisiana. Join us on Saturday, April 21, 2012, from 8 AM – 2 PM at the Livingston Parish School Board Office in Livingston for an amazing in-person event for the Discovery Education Virtual Conference. We will spend the day building a face [...]
This is not an April Fools’ Day Joke! I wrote a post a couple of days ago on the success of day one of our book fair in Barnes and Noble. Day one focused on Geography so our day two took a different direction with curriculum as students completed a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and [...]
I just conducted a book fair at our local Barnes and Noble store. Our students are always excited about this fair because we are off campus and it is always so much fun. I planned three nights of activities to keep the students active in the store while the parents shopped (of course!). The first [...]
Digital Learning Day might be a kick-off to the month of February but when I think of this month I always picture big red hearts. I consider this month the time of love, chocolate, lacy doilies, valentines and online tools. You might be wondering if online tools are online dating sites but NOT in this [...]
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to add posts to our Louisiana LC Blog. I feel bad that I have not posted in such a long time, but I plan to remedy that this year. Do you blog? Do you blog with your students? Join Lee Kolbert, Karen McMillan, and me today at 6 [...]
Discovery Education SCIENCE TECHBOOK has been taken on throughout many school districts in many different parts of the country. The educators of Rapides Parish in Lousiana share their excitement. Read – 8 Rapides Parish elementary schools replacing science textbooks with interactive ‘techbooks” by Karina Vailes (June 28, 2011) School backpacks are going to get a [...]
On Saturday July 9th on the campus of UNO the first Louisiana unconference will take place. As one of the organizers, I proudly present edcampLouisiana. What, no thunderous applause? Oh, you don’t know what an unconference is and you’ve never heard of an edcamp. Well, not so no ago I stood right where you are [...]
Spring has sprung! There are so many exciting DEN events springing up that it is almost impossible to keep up will all of them. First remember if you a a DEN STAR in Louisiana and want to take a more active role, sign up for the Leadership Council. Applications are being taken until March 28, [...]
Congrats to science teachers in Indiana and Louisiana! You join those in Oregon as among the first in the country to have a true alternative to traditional textbooks. Both states recently adopted the Discovery Education Science Techbook as a digital core instructional resource for elementary and middle school science instruction through their state textbook adoption [...]
I am so excited to let you know that I have been invited to present on the K12 Online Conference Echo series. My Skype buddy, Jan Wells(from Kansas), and I rolled out our K12 Online Conference presentation on October 27. Shortly after our session went “live” we were invited to be the first presenters for [...]
Great news for those STAR DEN members who will be attending LACUE 2010 in Baton Rouge! Susan Tompkins, our LC chair, has organized a dinner Thursday night for all LA STARs. Invite someone to come along with you who is not already a STAR DE so we can help spread the word about how great [...]
Friday, September 10, 2010 was a great day for Discovery educators in the state of Louisiana. LPB (Louisiana Public Broadcasting) and DEN (Discovery Educator Network) worked together to bring a Day of Discovery to Baton Rouge. The Louisiana State Museum donated the venue that was used for the day of workshop presentations. Hall Davidson, Steve [...]
I was so excited to be able to attend the VIP Reception hosted by Discovery Education Network (DEN) and Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) tonight at the Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge. Over 150 distinguished guests gathered to celebrate the announcement of the winning users of Discovery Streaming through the LPB portal. I got to [...]
Louisiana Public Broadcasting and Discovery Education will host a Day of Discovery in Baton Rouge on Friday, September 10, 2010. Educators from the great state of Louisiana [...]
Introducing our Louisiana Leadership Council. Take a few minutes to get to know a little about each of your new LC members.
We got started bright and early today on the Bentley campus with a great breakfast outdoors under the huge, white tent. Then we all gathered to take part in a three hour session with Dr. Lodge McCammon. He showed us how to incorporate video in a variety of methods into our classrooms. My favorite part [...]
Today I traveled from New Orleans to Boston to meet with 75 other educators from around the country to attend the DENLC Symposium. We are staying on the campus of Bentley University in Waltham, MA (about 25 miles from the airport). When I arrived at Copely South (the dorm we are staying in) I was [...]
The new members of the Leadership Councils have been announced. Congratulations to everybody and let’s make this 25th anniversary year one to remember. You can view all the Leadership Council members on this document. I’d like to welcome back Susan Tompkins as the chair for our LC here in Louisiana. I’d also like to warmly welcome [...]
A great professional development opportunity is being offered tomorrow night. Check it out and register for the webinar. 21 Ways to Engage 21st Century Learners Comcast Learning On Demand Professional Development SeriesWednesday, June 9 at 7:00 PM ETLearn how to move beyond “stand alone” methods of teacher and replace it with a model [...]
Hi Louisiana STARS. Are any of you attending ISTE10 in Denver this year? I am and I’m am so excited. It is going to be an awesome week. Head on over to my personal blog and read about why I’m looking forward to going. Please look for me if you are going too. I ordered a T [...]
Yesterday I attended Spotlight on the Gulf webinar featuring Philippe Cousteau. According to Steve Dembo there were a record number of attendees. Actually I attended the second session which was offered to people who live in the areas that are most affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. I received an email from Discovery saying that [...]
On the evening of May 25 we celebrated our second annual DENny Awards, and what a celebration it was! Please join me in congratulating this year’s DENny Award winners! PL-DEN Award Erin Misegadis, KS Dean Mantz, KS Mary Del Bianco, MD DENnis Grice, CA Best Individual Blog Krisitn Anquilino Caroline LaMagna Best Leadership Council Blog [...]
Join Philippe Cousteau Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 12:00 pm CDT, for a spotlight on the Gulf spill and learn how it affects us now and in the future. Register at this link .This webinar will be archived for future viewing and DEN will send an email to all registrants after the webinar with information on how [...]
You are invited to join the LA LC Chair in the Shreveport/Bossier area on a DEN Geocaching Adventure on Saturday, May 22. Gather some colleagues and get together with other educators to explore what all the buzz is about! If ever you were curious about Geocaching, or have already been geocaching, then you need to [...]
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