Twitter Anyone? TWITTER is the best professional development tool that I have encountered in years. Twitter allows you to have conversations and get resources from like-minded individuals. It allows you to network with others in a way that transcends the walls of our schools and neighborhoods. It allows for 24/7 participation in 140 characters or less. That means [...]
This week’s DEN Techformation resource will help you to create an ePortfolio or website using Weebly.com. * Have you thought about creating an ePortfolio for your kids? * Have you thought about creating an ePortfolio for yourself? * Have you wondered how to create an online classroom for your students and parents? If you have [...]
Don’t forget to join us on Twitter for the #DENchat tonight (How did it get to be so late?) at 8 EDT (7CDT). I will be moderating the topic “Let Their Passions Shine” where we will discuss ways to let your students explore their passions such as Genius Hour, Google 20% Time, Identity Day, and [...]
Be the first to get a look at upcoming enhancements to Discovery Education! This sneak peek will showcase integration strategies for leveraging new tools, content, and resources, including Discovery Education Student Board Builder and the new Discovery Education Streaming Plus with model lessons, assessments, and digital content designed to address specific Math and ELA Common [...]
The newly launched #DENchat, spearheaded by Lisa Parisi and Tim Childers, will be nine weeks old on April 25. I will take on the lead moderating job for this week’s #DENchat to discussion the topic Let Their Passions Shine. Come share your ideas regarding should students have time to pursue their passions in our classrooms? [...]
My school system celebrates a late Spring Break, so until next Tuesday I’m enjoying a few days off. I have been having a great time reading, posting to social media sites all day long, and attending webinars. Another activity that I discovered was the DEN Spring Training. When I realized that I was doing some [...]
Will be be in the West Baton Rouge area this Saturday? Looking for some great technology ideas, activities or just want to hang out with some awesome educators then you must attend the REGION II TECHNOLOGY SLAM Come ready to share ideas as we “slam” on our favorite technology topics. Saturday March 9, 2013 8:30 [...]
SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: This post contains links to songs from the 80s so listening may result in Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol) Remember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance in “Thriller“? The 80s decade was ruled by music and for music junkies like myself it was Just like Heaven (The Cure). There were [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day to the DEN and all of the wonderful people in it. I am so glad I am a part of this wonderful community.
DEN STAR Valerie Burton is sharing her knowledge with others during the K12 Online Conference. Her session, called “Show Off Your Work Online Using Weebly.com can be viewed online. This is one of many presentations that are part of this free professional development. Check out the conference schedule to see what might be good for [...]
Will you be in the Baton Rouge, LA area November 5th? Stop by the Barnes and Noble in Citiplace for some app sharing. Grab a pumpkin spice latte and meet us at the DEN table in the cafe. Bring your iPad and join us at 3:15 pm. The Rover app http://www.theroverapp.com/ will be shared as [...]
Louisiana Public Broadcasting’s award-winning documentary Turning the Tide takes an in-depth look at the proposed solutions and bold engineering that can “turn the tide” on Louisiana’s coastal erosion problem. NEW! Turning the Tide: A Companion Teaching Guide and its companion video clips feature interactive classroom activities designed to educate students about the effects of coastal [...]
Welcome 2012 Louisiana STARS to the DEN Community. We look forward to collaborating with you! Amy Ard Alice Aud Renisha Beaudoin Karen Berlin Karla Cooper Christina Gantt Debra Hale Jackie Jenkins Pierre LaCaze Jessica Landry Sue Ottesen Carol Passmore Tammie Santos Rae Self Emily Swenson Madison Wise
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 [...]
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