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 [...]
I’ve seen our educators do some really neat stuff, but this has got to be one at the top of the list! Earlier this month I had the chance to travel to Alabama and visit Redstone Arsenal with a JROTC class from Bob Jones High School. During our visit the students were able to immerse [...]
Hey guys, Just in case you didn’t see this posting check out the information about the DEN National Institute. July 21-25, 2008 we will have a National Institute where 100 educators from all over the country will have the chance to come to our world head quarters in Silver Spring, MD and participate in a [...]
Well they both can be challenging to get your hands around, often have lots of components that, on the first thought, shouldn’t really go together, and are lots of fun to work with and/or eat. Recently I had the pleasure of visiting AIU 3 and delivering a few presentations to 50+ Library Media Specialists from [...]
What a day we had in Western Maryland! On Tuesday, March 4, 2008, Lance Rougeux – Director of the Discovery Educator Network and or Mr. Pennsylvania – your call, Dennis Swain – DEN Account Manager for the North East, Alex Morrison – Director of Sales, Mid-Atlantic, and I had the chance to meet, interact, and [...]
It was great to see lots of familiar faces and meet new ones at this year’s PETE and C. One of my favorite moments was getting to share the stage with Lance Rougeux and Steve Dembo as we unveiled this year’s “Streaming with the Stars” presentation. If you’re asking yourself what the heck is “Streaming [...]
Last week I got invited by Roni Staimpel at the North Coast EMC to speak to educators from in and around the Cleveland, OH area. And this week, I’m back in Columbus, OH at the eTech Conference spreading the love. Everyone I spoke to, both in Cleveland and Columbus, told me that I had to [...]
Wow what a great Virtual Conference! On Saturday, February 2, 2008 we hosted our first ever national virtual conference. People joined live in-person events, stayed home in their pajamas and logged in from home on-line, and even participated in Second Life! I had the privilege of presenting to both a group of educators from Maryland, [...]
Do you remember when the diminutive Gary Coleman asked the question”Whatcha Talkin’ ’bout Willis” and his catch phrase was born? If not it came from the popular 80′s sitcom “Different Strokes.” What the heck does this have to do with DE streaming? You might be asking yourself. Has Matt finally lost it? You might be [...]
Man oh man – have I been out and about! My suitcase and I have become best friends as I have had the pleasure of traveling to meet one-on-one with teachers, administrators, and everyone in-between from School Districts up and down the East Coast. I feel like that Johnny Cash song (or is it the [...]
Wow I’m really digging my new digs here on this site! Way to go Mr. Dembo! Yesterday I had a chance to speak with a lot of DEN Stars, members and teachers from all over the country during the DEN Stream-a-thon. I promised you all that I would post the presentations that I used during [...]
That’s right baby we’re back with a whole new series of Discovery Connections! During these webinars participants interacted with the Science Channel and Planet Earth producers and received a behind the scenes look at how it was all put together. On September 13, 2007 at 1pm Eastern Standard Time we resume our Discovery Connection series. [...]
I know, I know, we have been stuck on the letter "B" forever. I promise to resume the march through the alphabet very soon. Recently I have been on a whirlwind tour of the states. I was in Berkeley, CA participating in the DEN Institute, then it was off to MD, VA, PA, NJ (pretty [...]
Ok so the last Back to Basics posting was brought to you by the letter "A." As always, the focus of the Back to Basics blog will be to explain terminolgy in easy to understand language, offer tips and tricks (even for advanced users), and provide suggestions for using technology and unitedstreaming inside the classroom. [...]
The idea of this posting, and its subsequent postings comes, from my good friend, and DEN Star Member, Stevie Kline – Intermediate Unit One Coal Center in Pennsylvania. During a recent conversation Stevie asked me if we could include some information for users that are not only brand new to unitedstreaming, but may be getting [...]
They say that imitation is the purest form of flattery. Well this posting and the ideas attached in it aren’t so much imitation as much as they are blatant "borrowing" from our very own DEN Manager Extraordinare, Lance Rougeux. Recently I had the opportunity to present to a group of educators attending WHRO’s Tech Trek [...]
Exciting news! We have just improved and updated the Assignment, Quiz and Writing Prompt Builders. Here is how each builder has been made better. Assignment Builder Improvements Now, when you build your content, you can Bold Text, change the color of your text, add numbering and bullets, sub and super scripts, special characters, tables and [...]
Over the past few weeks we have received lots of "How Do I…?" e-mails and phone calls. The response has always been to provide the answer and direct them to the appropriate blog posting for future reference. Now it used to be that if you were searching for a particular solution, say getting closed-captioning to [...]
Soon after Planet Earth aired on the Discovery Channel, requests from educators around the country started to pour in. We received questions like, "How soon will DVDs be available?" "Can I use the DVDs in schools?" And, of course the inevitable, "How much?" Well, my friends, here is the good news. Discovery Education has procured [...]
Ok so here we are on Friday and, as promised, here is the third of three postings on The Builders (Assignment, Quiz and Writing Prompt). Today we’re going to tackle the Writing Prompt Builder. The Writing Prompt Builder is a tool that allows you to tie together any image that you find on unitedstreaming with [...]
True or False – within unitedstreaming you can find three great tools to help you integrate technology into the classroom? True of course! Way to go you passed the Pop Quiz! And speaking of Pop Quizzes – let’s dive a little deeper into unitedstreaming’s Quiz Builder. The Quiz Builder is a tool that allows you [...]
Early last fall we sent out thousands of school kits. Within those school kits were the Get More Booklets. We posted these 13 page works of wonder within the Professional Development section of unitedstreaming. To access and print these booklets out you can either click on this link: Get More Booklet. Or you can fill [...]
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