Saturday, 5/18 10AM-12:30PM Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201 Your hosts: Suzanne Brooks and Karen Ogen Educators (K-12) bring your family for our Discovery Education Geocaching and QR Code Day. This year we are mixing it up a little and combining our annual Geocaching Day with QR codes. If you don’t know anything about either one [...]
Educators (K-12) bring your iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone and take part in an educational walk in the eclectic Vista area of Columbia, SC. During your walk you will take pictures that could relate to your curriculum (ex: math- angles, history- architecture, science- plants and trees, etc). Then we will join together and learn about [...]
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 [...]
This week on DENvice we welcome one of our very favorite people, DEN Guru and South Carolina LC member Karen Ogen. This week’s question: How can I be an active member of the DEN? Hint from the DEN Princess, your answer might include the words – share, connect and support. Thank you to all of our [...]
Exploring the Future of Energy and Examining the Role of Water A FREE Professional Development Institute for Teachers Tuesday July 16th, 12:30PM – 5:00PM Wednesday, July 17th, 8:30AM-5:00PM Thursday July 18th, 8:30AM-4:00PM At the North Carolina Botanical Garden UNC-Chapel Hill In this two and ½ day teacher professional development institute participants will [...]
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The second stop on the DENapalooza tour has been finalized. We’ll be stopping in the Atlanta area on April 27th. Join the DEN for this exciting day of professional development with formal presentations from DEN STARs in the morning and an unconference in the afternoon. Registration is NOW OPEN! For more information about DENapalooza, visit [...]
Interested in exploring NASA resources that can help you enrich and enhance student learning in STEM? Ever wonder about Butterflies in Space or how you can have the Solar System in Your Pocket? The 5th Annual NASA Educators Workshop on STEM (NEWS 2013) will be held at UNCC on March 4, 5, and 6. This [...]
From mid-November to mid-December I ran an eco-challenge with three of my elementary schools. I challenged my teachers and students to reduce their use of electricity, paper, and plastic in the classroom and at home. For a month, they kept track of their daily habits on a spreadsheet and tallied their points for turning off classroom [...]
I am LOVING PosterMyWall! I have to thank my colleague Jennifer Morrison for sharing this great resource on our Discovery Education Edmodo site because it is a real find. PosterMyWall is an online site that will allow you or your students to instantly and FREELY create wonderful quality posters. You can use the pre-loaded backgrounds [...]
In just six weeks I will leaving on an amazing adventure to learn about polar bears in their natural habitat. Thanks to Discovery Education and Polar Bears International, Tammy Einarson and I were the recipients of this wonderful trip. We will be spending a week with zookeepers and other educators on a tundra buggy outside of Churchill, Canada [...]
Educators (K-12) bring your iPads and take part in an educational nature walk down the historic Columbia Riverwalk. Along the way, Karen Ogen will show you how to use various iPad apps and tools to document learning about science and nature. Upon return, we will convene at Carolina Wild Wings on Gervais, for a FREE [...]
I was lucky enough to spend a week with a group of wonderful educators at the Discovery Education Summer Institute. Some of these apps I learned about from the conference and some I have used before, but most importantly, ALL of these apps can be used in your classroom- no matter what subject or grade level [...]
The Upstate Technology Conference in Greenville, South Carolina was another great opportunity for DEN educators to learn, share, and to have fun! The conference highlight was Dr. Lodge McCammon and two days of his inspiring keynote sessions. We also were very proud to have had 12 DEN Stars that gave excellent presentations and workshops throughout [...]
What event could this be? None other than the Upstate Technology Conference (UTC) in Greenville, SC from 6/12-6/14: http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/utc 3 DEN Activities: 1. Dining with the STARS: You are cordially invited to dine among the STARs. The South Carolina DEN will host a dinner for STARs during the UTC conference in Greenville, SC. STARs let’s [...]
Geocaching Day was a great opportunity for the DEN team and educators from SC to get together for learning and fun on a beautiful day in Charleston SC. DEN leadership members Suzanne Brooks, Andrea Rollison, Karen Ogen, and Amy Dent prepared a fun filled morning. They guided participants to 8 caches hidden around the historic [...]
The South Carolina DEN invites you to join us for a day of outdoor fun and learning for Geocaching Day on May 19th! This year we will meet in beautiful, historic downtown Charleston (at Battery Park- pronounced Bat-Ree for you out-of-towners) to find hidden caches that are part of a book tour. If you don’t know much [...]
The Social Learning Summit this past weekend was another great opportunity to learn and share with the DEN community. When we meet up with our DEN friends, there is now a new way for us to get to know each other- DEN trading cards! When you trade with a fellow DEN member, you will have that person’s [...]
Can’t join the crew at Ripley’s Aquarium? Well, then! Join us at Russell’s Pizza in beautiful, downtown Blackville, SC for a day of pizza, pizzazz, and planning for Web 2.0 and social media in the classroom. Mark your calendar, Saturday, April 21st and email me: cemsteacher@gmail.com for directions.
Newsmap is a site that provides a visual representation of the news as aggregated from Google News. What I like about Newsmap is the how color is used to differentiate between types of new stories. For example, the blue headlines are all sports related while the gradients of those colors also show you how recent the [...]
We have a whole day of learning, networking, and fun planned just for you! Our FREE Myrtle Beach event will be a fantastic opportunity to network with local educators and learn alongside the DEN and Classroom 2.0 communities. Oh yea, and did we mention it’s at Ripley’s Aquarium? Your day with us includes aquarium admission, virtual [...]
Join South Carolina educators and families to kick off Summer Reading programs across the state with award winning authors Denise Fleming and Marc Brown. Storytelling provided by South Carolina’s librarians and storytellers. When: Saturday, June 2, 2012 9:00 am-4:00 pm Where: SC State Museum, 301 Gervais Street Columbia, SC 29201 What: A day filled with family friendly events [...]
Interactive Sites for Education is a collection of K-5 online, interactive games and simulations that can be used on your Smartboard for teaching and learning. This site is my own personal compilation of the best (and advertisement free) online activities for math, ELA, science, social studies, brainteasers, art, music, holidays, world language, and typing (some are still [...]
Last week the SC Leadership Team held an event for educators to watch the “Flipping Your Classroom with FIZZ” webinar hosted by Dr. Lodge McCammon. If you missed the presentation, it was a great introduction to the flipped classroom concept and the archived webinar can be found here. Following the webinar, DEN LC members Karen Ogen [...]
I had the honor of attending the 35th anniversary of the South Carolina Middle School Association conference. Discovery Education was well represented – Hall Davidson kept a full house during the Closing Session. For those who have misplaced his presentations: linkyy.com/HallDavidsonHandouts and/or linkyy.com/MDLA. I know my colleagues will soon be using his tools. Thanks DEN [...]
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