One of the tasks that I have placed upon myself before the school year starts is creating class lists and student accounts for the sites that my students and I use throughout the year. I have found them to be very useful as; a classroom management tool, content learning site, and even something fun to [...]
We are used to hearing “there’s an app for that” from Apple. Did you know that, for many lessons, you can find a video clip to supplement your lesson without reinventing the wheel? Check out this website for the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. Use these videos with a multimedia projector, [...]
Thousands of people have converged into one area this week. San Diego. Quite a few people I know are in San Diego this week for the well-known ISTE Conference. I’ve attended and presented at several ISTE conferences in the past and I will say, it is definitely worthwhile. The amount of professional development and networking [...]
Please join me in welcoming the newest members of the DEN STAR Educator community. Kathy Balch Maria Chubb Bill Farrand Welcome everyone! Go ahead and introduce yourself to the rest of the community by posting a comment.
A warm welcome to the newest STAR’s of the DEN (Michigan)! Todd Bloch Hilary Grant Eric Kipling Gwenn Marchesano Michelle Moody Brian VanDerziel Welcome to the best educator community on the planet! Please go ahead and post a comment and tell us a bit about yourself.
Fellow DEN Star, LC Chair, and DEN Guru Cheryl Lykowski had this to share about edcamp Detroit and Discovery Education. We wanted to take a moment and thank Discovery Education for their amazing support of Edcamp Detroit. Discovery Education has been leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large [...]
It started with a Facebook message….39 DEN friends wishing each other luck…. Hoping and waiting for the weekly release of DENSI 2012 picks while sharing how we could not wait to see each other. One message lead to the next and soon a google doc was born, a date and place chosen to get our [...]
Are you ready to MACUL?! This year’s conference should be one of the best yet. For those attending or not we will be using #macul12. This is good to know for something called Twitter. I hear you should check it out. A great tool to use for those attending is the on-line planner. http://schedule.macul.org/ You [...]
Are you READY?! The 2012 MACUL Conference in Grand Rapids is just a few days away. I know that there are many DEN members that will be attending and even presenting. It will be great for us to show our support by attending any of the sessions that DEN members are leading. If you are [...]
Smories are original short stories written and read by children. They were thought of by a pair of sisters who enjoyed reading and recording stories for each other. The website is super simple. Its just a collection of pictures of the children who have written recorded the stories. Clicking on the picture takes you [...]
Cheryl Lykowski is ready. Gina Loveless is ready. Scores of other passionate, technology-using educators are signed up and ready.The Discovery team is ready. I just landed in Kalamazoo, MI today so I am definitely ready! So, I hope you are ready and as excited as I am about the Day of Discovery happening this Saturday, February 18th! Attendees [...]
Hello Everyone! February is here. That means we are only a couple of weeks away from our first 2012 MI Day of Discovery! If you have already made plans to attend the Kalamazoo DOD we look forward to seeing you there. If you have yet to sign up, please do so here: http://dodkzoo.eventbrite.com. The best [...]
Designed specifically for Michigan area educators, these interactive days of free professional development will highlight creative ways to engage students and invigorate your curriculum using the latest 21st century tools. Whether you are new to Discovery Education or a long-time user in search of the latest instructional strategies, these events have something for everyone. Each [...]
While searching for phonics resources online to supplement our district’s curriculum. Here are sites that I found. Some are interactive, some have pre-made printables, and some have a tool to create your own phonics printables. Cando’s Helper Page Hard/Soft C and G sounds SEN Teacher (onset and rime) Phonicsworld Funfonix Tools for Educators Lanternfish: phonics [...]
While I was perusing Promethean Planet for lessons to use with my 2nd grade geography unit this site was within the search items. What an awesome resource! Just watching the introduction video by Sir David Attenborough gave me goosebumps. Watch it below.
Let’s DISCOVER the answer together! November is almost here, school is in full swing, and maybe you could use a boost to launch you in to 2012. We want to remind you of an upcoming opportunity get that boost. Whether you could use a refresher on Discovery Education Streaming, are looking to learn some new [...]
i have been in online ed 4 many years. kids turn in work that looks like it came from their cell phones. may b it did! we tell them 2 use tech 4 school. now their assignments look like convos w/ friends. do we care? we no what they mean rite? i am old school [...]
The answer? 3. That’s right, three. As in three wonderful and exciting professional development opportunities! The REMC Association and Discovery Education are pleased to present REMC Days of Discovery! For REMC 19 West, 18 North, and REMC 10, there is a Day of Discovery just around the corner for you! Whether you are new to Discovery Education STREAMING [...]
The Michigan DEN LC, in partnership with MACUL, would like to invite you to the Michigan site for the Tech or Treat conference! This year we are hosting our in-person event at Battle Creek Central High School, in Battle Creek, MI. A complete flyer with information can be found below: Battle Creek Day [...]
It still really has not sunk in yet but I have a one-to-one computing classroom. When I checked into my room at the start of the year I found a laptop cart in there. Even though they are half as old as my students, most don’t hold any charge at all, and just able to [...]
In gathering resources for my lessons on 9-11, these are some that I have come across. BrainPop’s September 11 page Teach+Learn: National 9/11 Memorial Scholastic’s 9/11 page History Channel has 3 pages: Ten Years Later: 9/11 Attacks, 102 Minutes that Changed America Discovery Education also has their page with links to resources: Rise: Reconnect & [...]
I am currently taking on on-line course; Michigan History for the 3rd Grade Teacher. One of activities has us critiquing 17th century French maps of the Great Lakes and more. Go here. You can zoom in and out and shift all over the maps. I did check out the Luna Commons site to see what [...]
Welcome to Michigan’s new DEN STAR’s Stephanie Carone and Karen Keffer Welcome!
As most teachers do when summer starts I am taking a class. This one is on-line and uses Moodle and the group feature of Facebook as its platform. One of the tools used is the web 2.0 site Bubbl.us. Here is one mind map that I put together for an assignment on early Woodland culture. [...]
Six members of the Michigan LC and 3 guests gathered for a beautiful couple of hours of geocaching at Creasey Bicentennial Park in Grand Blanc. For a few of them this was the first time ever geocaching. Even though we had to navigate some flooded areas we were able to find 3 caches out of [...]
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