I just found out about a free resource that I think would go great with a Discovery video. CoverItLive.com is a live blogging site. Live blogging is where comments are posted to a blog while an event is going on. It is used to cover sporting events, speeches and other news worthy events. However never let [...]
What would you do without your technology? The other day my bulb for my projector blew out. It was at the end of the day so no classes were affected, but I was faced with the question: What am I going to do tomorrow? I have no other board in my classroom other than my [...]
Post by Jessica Donaldson Collaborating on large projects can be difficult. Tracking conversations for follow-up, sharing resources, and assigning deadlines are critical components of a collaborative project, but ensuring everyone is communicating and getting consistent information isn’t an easy task…until now. Mindjet [http://www.mindjet.com/] was created with true collaboration in mind. Whether you are writing curriculum [...]
If you have been to a Lodge McCammon workshop, then you will remember the laughter, fun and learning that took place. I too did this activity with students in my school and it was a blast. So now what else can you do with Lodge songs? Did you know they were a part of DiscoveryEducation [...]
I recently presented my GURU presentation to the committee and invited them and now I am inviting you to start a conversation with me. So this is the beginning of my Teach 2033 blog series. The Big Question is how are we are going to prepare our students to live in the year 2033. At the bottom of this [...]
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 [...]
A Post by Selena Ward Why Evernote? Just yesterday I completed another presentation about the power of Evenote and I received an interesting question from a person in the audience. She asked, “With tools like Google Drive, why do you need Evernote?” That was a great question since they have similar features, but here is my [...]
First you must put the DE site on your home page on the iPad. Open Safari and go to the DE website. Click on the “send to” arrow right next to the URL and a new window will open. Choose ADD TO HOME SCREEN and a nice DE icon will be placed on your ipad [...]
A post by Jessica Donaldson: Creating a simple, but beautiful story just got easier for the iPad. Haiku Deck [http://www.haikudeck.com/], an app by Giant Thinkwell, allows users to choose from a library of stunning images that are licensed under Creative Commons. However, like its 5-7-5 syllable Japanese poem namesake suggests, the “beautiful” part of Haiku [...]
The Villanova Tech Expo gets better each year. It is largely presented by Villanova University and many area sponsors and is free for attendees. Presenters are generally local educators, and vendors, but if you look at the schedule, there are always some golden nuggets of information to be found. Over 50 sessions, included topics from [...]
Today is testing day in Pennsylvania. Our students have been prepared and the teachers are ready. This year the DOE required each teacher to complete a 45 minute webinar and quiz about the ethics of this PSSA test. I don’t mind, I did it and it was a good review of the procedures. As a [...]
Welcome to the first of a weekly blog series. We plan to cover all things tech and education to keep you informed. That is where we got the title Techformation. I was at PETE&C in February and attended a session covering online teaching. It was in this session that I was first introduced to WeVideo. This is [...]
The 2012 National Student Mock Election Awards have been announced. Leading educational organizations, in conjunction with the My Voice National Student Mock Election, sponsored awards for outstanding student voter educational projects. The awards recognize the students, teachers, administrators and many others that helped advance civic engagement across the nation. Pennsylvania DEN STAR and Leadership Council [...]
Posted for:Jessica Donaldson Where can you find STARs on Stage in April? So glad you asked! We have three sessions in three states with three different DEN STARs, so prepare yourself for a standing ovation. Please support our STARs who are presenting in Florida, South Dakota, and Arkansas next month! 4/6/13 - Florida Association [...]
The Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) is holding their Detroit conference March 20 – 22. Are you attending MACUL? You won’t want to miss these DEN STAR sessions: 3/20 Eric Strommer – Discovery Education: How not to drown. 3/21 Andy Losik – Advanced iMovie Techniques for All Grade Levels 3/21 Dave Tchozewski [...]
Take over 300 attendees, 27 presenters, 55 workshops and 0 pages of paper, put it together and you get a Google Summit at Charlottesville, Virginia, 2013. Dedicated to all things Google, the sessions covered topics from “Getting Started” to “Google Ninja”, there was something for everyone. There were also many DEN Stars presenting for the [...]
I know I have asked my students in the past to do a portfolio for various courses. I think it is valuable for them to have a physical representation of their body of work. I got to thinking (dangerous business) when I was filling out the DEN Guru application that I did not have a [...]
March is National Nutrition Month, so what are you doing to eat healthier? You can easily watch some DE videos on nutrition. For example Nutrition Labels was made in 2012 and explains what is on a label. Did you know that DE has an ebook called Nutrition Labels as well? If you want to see [...]
If you want to make your students think and laugh at the same time, share http://thankstextbooks.tumblr.com/ with them. It is a weekly update of oddities found in textbooks. The comments are often as funny as the textbook print. Lance Rougeux shared this table for apps/sites and their use: Tinyurl.com/coreofde . One of the fun activities on this page [...]
I have done a lot of reflecting on homework since last year. Over the summer I read several books that helped me shed some light on it for my own practice. Here are just a few quotes Who Owns the Learning? Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age ALAN NOVEMBER “When students are given [...]
About 15 years ago in a graduate class far away I recall my professor telling us that in the future we would be consumers of information. What on earth did that mean? Well here we are in 2013, consuming information everyday. Looking up times for movies, learning about new ideas for teaching the perfect lesson, [...]
Thursdays at 8:00PM hop on to your Twitter account and search for the #denchat in the search bar. You will be pleasantly educated by some of the countries smartest, and most enthusiastic educators from the DEN! For the first chat the group asked questions, offered ideas and tweeted the location of their blog. The archive [...]
Moore’s law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware, the number of components on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. The period often quoted as “18 months” is due to Intel executive David House, who predicted that period for a doubling in chip performance (being a combination of the effect of [...]
My PETE&C day started at 4:30 Am. The goal was to get to Hershey before 7 am so I could take part in the Pete-Lets. This was held each morning for presenters to get 2 min to sell their sessions. They were only allowing the first 20 presenters who showed up to present. I hit [...]
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