One of the things we know about the Digital Native generation is that they are visual learners. One of the ways to capture their attention is to offer them high quality, interesting, and engaging pictures and videos as part of your classroom practice. While Discovery Streaming has thousands of engaging photographs and videos readily available [...]
The DEN’s Fall Virtual Conference, Tech or Treat, is nearly here. And while you can always attend online, there are many live events being hosted across the country. Knoxville is no exception! In addition to viewing several online presentations, there will be live workshops offered by the Tennessee DEN Leadership Council specifically geared to help [...]
Once again, the Mid-South Technology Conference in Memphis, TN, is set to rock the tri-state area on December 8 and 9! And this year promises to be even better with Discovery’s own Kathy Schrock as the keynote speaker! This year’s theme is “Producing Digital Citizens” and promises to be a fantastic two days of powerful [...]
The Discovery Education Assessment team and the Discovery Educator Network (DEN) team had a blast with Tennessee educators as we traveled from Knoxville to Nashville and on to Memphis May 9, 10, and 11! Jim Mitchell, Kyle Schutt, and Susan Hudson came along to share information on student growth, teacher effectiveness, and how to use [...]
Last week I had the pleasure of touring Tennessee from Knoxville all the way to Memphis with some of my DEN colleagues. Tennessee is always a joy to visit, especially when I get to meet new DEN members and learn from them! I was able to reconnect with some members of the LC in Knoxville, [...]
The response to our Saturday, March 12th, DEN Day of training for Math and Language Arts at Lake Forest Middle School in Cleveland, TN, has been phenomenal. We’ve already expanded our acceptance list from 30 to 50, and we have just a few places left! Here is a brief rundown of the day and some [...]
The TN DEN LC is hosting a day-long training event for Math and Language Art teachers on Saturday, March 12th at the Lake Forest Middle School in Cleveland, TN. We will look at various technologies that can help teachers from all content areas incorporate math and language arts into their curriculum (DE Streaming, Web 2.0, [...]
RESERVE YOUR SEAT! Date: Saturday, February 26th. 2011 Time: 8 am -10 am Apple Store in Saddle Creek, 7615 W Farmington Blvd Germantown, TN 38138 The Tennessee DEN LC is hosting a training at the Apple Store. These trainings are always informative and lot of fun! During this time the Apple folks and TN DEN [...]
We are hosting three…that’s right… THREE live events for the DEN SciCon Virtual Conference happening January 22nd! So, no matter where you live in TN, you can attend a live event with relative ease and be part of one of the most fantastic groups of educators anywhere on the planet…the DEN! You can find more [...]
Clif Mims, TN DEN LC member, Executive Director of the Martin Institute, and teacher extraordinaire, has forwarded the following announcement for a fantastic professional development opportunity in West Tennessee… I’d like to invite you to the 2011 Martin Institute Spring Conference, Teaching for Tomorrow, to be held February 3-4 at Presbyterian Day School. See the [...]
If you live in the Chattanooga area, you may be interested in this great photo opportunity from the Tennessee Aquarium on Saturday, January 15th. I (Tim) finally decided to get a ticket, and I would love to have some DEN friends along for the ride! You can register here. The cost is $39. The boat [...]
We are back! That’s right, the TN DEN blog is back, and have we got great news for Discovery Educator Network members in TN! We are hosting three…that’s right… THREE live events for the DEN SciCon Virtual Conference happening January 22nd! So, no matter where you live in TN, you can attend a live event [...]
Fall VirtCon 2010 Saturday, October 23, 2010 9AM to 3 PM ET Download the flyer Cost: FREE Register for the virtual sessions (Beginning at 8am ET, you can click this same link to join the event!) Schedule: 9-9:50 AM It’s Not the Technology, It’s the Education Gail Lovely Web 2.0 tools are cool. iPads, cell [...]
With the Fall Virtual Conference coming up later this month (Saturday October 23 for 6 hours of non-stop professional development!), its time to take a look at some of the webinars being hosted by Discovery Education. You can log into your DE Streaming account and find the entire list by clicking on the DEN link [...]
(Reposted from Porter Palmer on the DEN National blog) Mark your calendars! At 1pm ET on Monday, September 13th Danny Forster from the Science Channel’s Build It Bigger is joining us for a special webinar event “A New Way to Look at Architecture.” Danny loves architecture, from the curve of a building’s roof line to [...]
We have been using DE Assessment in our middle school for four years. The data we receive from the assessment results is absolutely essential to our “data-based” school improvement. The state of TN is working now to devise an assessment from the Department of Education. Of course, the easiest way to make that happen is [...]
They say you should never start a speech with an apology. I’m not sure if that applies to blogs or not. If it does, then I apologize for apologizing up front. I’m late in getting this post up from our Day of Discovery at Franklin High School in Franklin, TN. So let’s give you a [...]
Jen Dorman, Justin Karkow, Sandra Ford, and Tim Childers are in Franklin, TN, today for an exciting Day of Discovery at Franklin High School! We are looking forward to meeting teachers from all across the state in one of our first centrally-located events near Nashville. Teachers have registered from Memphis to Knoxville to Chattanooga! Teachers [...]
Sally Walter, a member of our LC Events Team, is at Bentley University this week for the DEN Summer Institute. I asked her to send us some comments about their daily activities for the week. Unfortunately, I’m a day behind! Here are her comments for Tuesday: Here is a little about today! There are hundreds, [...]
DE Streaming has changed some of the formatting and flexibility in areas such as My Content and the Builders. These changes have really made DE Streaming even easier to use than ever before. With school about to start again in some parts of the country (and especially in TN), we thought we would add some [...]
The DEN LCs had representation from all across the country at this past week’s LC Symposium at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. I have to admit, I was a little skeptical at first about the decision to house the symposium here, but it only took about half a day for me to realize my fears [...]
Today was our “unconference” day. It is one of the best things the DEN has started at these little annual meetings of ours. Last night, a long line of people stood before the group and announced something they would like to work on. Each of us wrote that down on a piece of card stock. [...]
Yesterday was a whirlwind first day for the DEN LC Symposium in Waltham, MA, and the Bentley University. We spent the morning with Dr. Lodge McCammon. The afternoon was a wild ride through downtown Boston. Not a good tour for pictures because we just didn’t get off the bus much due to time. Last night [...]
Our first full day at the DEN LC Symposium kicked off this morning with Dr. Lodge McCammon. Personally, I had never been in a session with Lodge. So, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Yet, everyone who has been in his workshops before have just bragged and bragged and bragged about it. I’m glad [...]
One of the coolest things I discovered (or re-discovered) at ISTE 2010 this year is the combination punch provided by YoLink and EasyBib for classroom research. I had used EasyBib before, but had not really looked that closely at YoLink. Well, Lucy Gray, Ken Shelton, and Julene Reed changed all that for me this past [...]
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