by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Discovery Education has a huge amount of great resources for educators, from videos to lesson plans to e-textbooks and more. Some of it is in Flash, so you can’t access it directly on your iOS device browser. However, iSwifter has partnered with Discovery Education to create Rover. Rover is an iPad [...]
“I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.” – T.H.Huxley Whatever subject you teach Discovery and the DEN can help you teach it well. Here are a few back-to-school reminders for using this great resource this year! Make use of My Content, across the campus or district to share content [...]
Join us for the Discovery Education Canada Back-to-School 2011 Webinar series as we explore the basics of Discovery Education STREAMING, join in the Discovery Education STREAMATHON, build upon 50 more ways to utilize digital media, and create digital stories with Discovery Education. Register today http://links.discoveryeducation.com/CanadaBTS2011 All times listed are Eastern Time. Discovery Education STREAMING: Back [...]
The Discovery Educator Network Back to School Membership Season has begun! Show your Discovery Education Team Spirit and win prizes by reporting events that reflect active use of Discovery Education curricular tools and resources and active participation in the Discovery Educator Network (DEN). Visit http://links.discoveryeducation.com/DENbts2011 Register and start reporting points today! Here’s How You [...]
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy I love rockets. My Bachelor’s degree is in Aerospace Engineering and I’ve been interested in rockets since I was a kid. My dad worked on the main engines for the Saturn V rocket when he worked at Pratt & Whitney as a chemist, I’ve designed and manufactured parts for the space program [...]
The Holidays! As the winter break draws nearer, have you found that the students are less attentive than usual? Discovery Streaming has items to help! First, some holiday title suggestions from the catalog: The Magic School Bus: Holiday Special — grades 2 – 4 Christmas Tales from Foreign Lands (various titles in series) – grades [...]
We want to hear from you. Discuss the future of Discovery Education streaming in one-on-one feedback sessions. Each session will last approximately one hour. If you are interested in volunteering please send your name, school district, subjects/grades that you teach and time slot that you are interested in to Shelley Santora Jones Thursday, February 12th [...]
Middle School Students Can Enter for the Chance to Win $50,000 in U.S. Savings Bonds Do you know a middle school student who is eager to explore the wonders of science? Discovery Education and 3M announce a call for entries in the 2009 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge (YSC), the nation’s premier science competition [...]
Yesterday the world watched as our nation’s 44th President was sworn into duty! On his way to the office, President Obama utilized a huge a variety of 21st century tools – including things like Twitter, blogs, Facebook, texting, and more – to mobilize his base and get his message out. During his campaign he stated, [...]
The Beatles aren’t the only ones that can sing about getting help. Today I’d like to sing the praises of the DE streaming help page. If you haven’t checked out this page I encourage you to give it a look-see. Once there you’ll see three tabs. The first tab, “Most Recent“ includes the most recent [...]
The March 15 Deadline for Entries Quickly Approaching! And we’re hosting January Webinars to Help Adult Advisers Engage Students in Sustainability Now in the final months for entries, the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is encouraging middle school students across the United States to kick off 2009 by “going green” and implementing [...]
Five Winning Schools Given the Opportunity to Expand Educational Technology and Learning Resources for Students and Teachers VERNON HILLS, Ill., and SILVER SPRING, Md. – January 5, 2009 – CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW Corporation and leading source of Information Technology (IT) solutions to educators and governments, and Discovery [...]
…but it can be a lot of fun to do! Here’s a quick tip that is super cool. Find any image from the site - my favorite image is called “Federal Troops at Rest” Once you find the image, and it is displayed in the blue media player box, open up a program like Word [...]
Did you know that you can now enlarge the Discovery Atlas videos to full screen? You can – and it is super easy. First you’ll need to find the Discovery Education Interactive Atlas. To find the atlas log into Discovery Education streaming and then click on the “Teacher Center.” Next, click on the “Discovery Education Atlas” [...]
Well guys this is kinda super cool – and it is only going to get cooler. We’ve upgraded the reporting functionality within DE streaming so that you can really zoom in and see usage like you’ve never seen it before. Within the new reports you now have the ability to see who is creating and [...]
Discovery Connect is proud to provide you and your students the opportunity to learn from a true American hero, U.S. Air Force Major Paul Moga of the Air Combat Command’s 1st Fighter Wing. Paul “Max” Moga is the host of Showdown: Air Combat, a Military Channel series which offers amazing insight into the aircraft’s,the weaponry [...]
Okay so it is the new school year and as many DE streaming educators go back to school – some are returning to brand new or different schools. If this story rings true to you, you might be asking yourself how can you bring your DE streaming username/password to your new school? Well one way [...]
Forty educators nationwide awarded $1,000 to implement inventive classroom lesson on sustainability Silver Spring, MD (August 25, 2008) – General Motors and Discovery Education are pleased to announce the forty winners of the 2008 LIVE GREEN Teacher Grants. Each of the forty winning middle or junior high school educators will receive a $1,000 grant to [...]
Just a quick post to let you know that more inhabitants have moved into the Birdhouse. I have updated the page so that it now includes Powerpoints that show you how to tell a story with a few web 2.0 applications sites, create an multimedia powerpoint, and more!Check them all out by visiting the Bird [...]
Man how fast did this summer go by? I swear I closed my eyes on June 1 and when I opened them it was almost August! What happened to the slow lazy hazy days of summer? Since the new school year is once again rapidly approaching we have set up a number of Back to [...]
This is a fun and easy trick that that will allow you and your students to add callouts and balloons to your Movie Maker movies. Once you install the files, they are ready to use each time you use Movie Maker. Click here to see how…
Ok I admit it, I’ve always wanted to use the word “plethora” in a sentence and I’m a sucker for alliteration. Weird right? Well, my dear friends, over the years I have collected a myriad of how-to instructions and ed tech integration ideas/solutions and put them together into presentations and pdfs. I have tried to [...]
I got this cool trick via DEN Stars, Cindy Lane and Jen Dorman and man is it cool! Did you know that you can use the blue screen feature in Windows MovieMaker? Yeah – how cool is that? And since MovieMaker is a free download you don’t have to purchase an expensive movie editor to [...]
This is way too exciting and way too cool and I wish I could take credit for figuring this out. Yesterday my colleague Kim Randall (DEN Account Manager, Western Region) sent me instructions that she received from Dennis Cowick a DEN Star Educator from San Diego Unified School District. CC Instructions for Macs I have [...]
Not too long ago the Discovery Channel aired a series called The Rise of the Video Game. The series featured the America’s Army game We thought it would really cool to develop a Discovery Connect Webinar around that theme and Wow what an amazing, interactive and jam packed webinar that was! This morning over 1000 [...]
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