I feel a little remiss not posting more to the TN DEN blog as I enjoy the hot summer days of ISTE 2010 in DENver, CO. Most of my reflections and notes are made on my personal blog since I set that up as an ISTE blog before the conference. However, I did want to [...]
Do you blog? I do. I post here and at my personal site. I upload pictures quite often. Usually, I just upload what’s on my computer without much worry about how big the file is. Then I stumbled across a very cool, easy-to-use website at Webresizer. This site has one purpose, to resize your images [...]
Next week is TAMS (Tennessee Association of Middle Schools) summer conference in Sevierville, TN. We would like to know who is attending TAMS and who might be presenting at TAMS. Tim is scheduled to do 1 session on Project Based Learning and 2 sessions on using Skype in the classroom. If you are coming to [...]
This morning I was surfing through my RSS feed about half asleep and not paying much attention until I got to Ewan McIntosh’s blog post about Bing’s new Destination Maps feature. I had already been blown away by a TED talk on how Microsoft was able to do street views inside buildings. So my curiosity [...]
On Tuesday, May 25th, Steve Dembo and some of the esteemed DEN crew presented the 2nd Annual DENny Awards in a red carpet webinar attended by thousands and thousands of excited fans of the DEN! OK, maybe not thousands and thousands, but they were excited! You can see some of the awards listed in the [...]
Tonight is the 2nd Annual DENny Awards ceremony webinar! You won’t want to miss this red carpet event (or whatever color the carpet is at your house). Go here to register. We will recognize STARs in many different categories, but the one that is coveted by STARs all over the globe is the Community Choice [...]
Have you got your glog on yet? If not, now’s the time. As part of the DEN’s Teacher Appreciation Week celebration our friends at Glogster are providing STARs with 90 days of free access to the Premium version of Glogster EDU (normally $11.95 per month). To discover how you can take advantage of this special offer, [...]
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I hope all the STARs in TN jumped on the DEN’s first give-away of Teacher Appreciation Week yesterday: a FREE year’s subscription to Prezi PRO ($59). I know I did! Leave us a comment if you got yours! Let us know if you want the TN DEN LC to do a Prezi training sometime this [...]
Take a look at all the wonderful things in store for educators from the DEN! DEN Teacher Appreciation Week: May 3-7, 2010 It’s that time of the year again where we celebrate our STARs for all the great work they do every day. Make sure to check the DEN blog every day next week. We [...]
I know this post is really, really late, but I just could not pass up the opportunity to highlight the Virtual Conference held in Cumming, GA. We had 13 highly motivated, excited, and eager educators in attendance. Teryl and Tim went down to “help out.” Patti Grammens did a fantastic job getting everything set up [...]
Yes, our first ever tri-state Day of Discovery at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, is officially over. But the impact of that day continues! Over 140 educators from three states began their day at 8:30 playing DENgo and getting to know one another a little better. By 9, Jennifer Dorman and Justin Karkow were [...]
Spring Virt Con 2010 Connect the Thoughts! Saturday, April 24, 2010 9 AM to 4 PM ET Cost? FREE Register for the virtual sessions Tennessee is not hosting a live event for the Virtual Conference this spring. However, the beauty of a Virtual Conference is that you can attend virtually! Here is a [...]
We will be broadcasting live today from the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC! You can find us on Ustream.TV here. Here is the agenda for our day: 9:00 – Welcome and Introduction (Justin Karkow and Jennifer Dorman) 9:10 – Spring Forward with Discovery Education (Jennifer Dorman) 10:00 – Back to School in 2010 (Justin Karkow) [...]
Here is a repost from the National DEN blog. Teryl and Tim have been to nearly all of these retreats since the beginning of the DEN. We would love to have great representation from TN this year! If you are a STAR Discovery Educator, fill out the application below. It is more competitive this year [...]
The DEN is getting geared up for the Spring and we are looking for a creative way to visually tell the DEN story. We looked to our DEN Guru for Professional Networking, Lee Kolbert. We decided that we wanted to map out the reach of the DEN and found a great example from Lee. We [...]
As we approach the DEN’s fifth birthday it is very easy to see that the community is stronger than ever. And it’s not because of us. It’s because of you. There are many ways to participate in the community from being a DEN member online to an active STAR to our latest level, DEN Guru. [...]
Today the TN DEN Leadership Council hosted an event at two Apple stores, one in Germantown and the other in Knoxville. It is fantastic to finally have LC members at both ends of this very wide state! Both events offered basic training in iMovie 09. Then, personalized instruction was offered from the Apple store staff [...]
This is just a quick reminder to those who registered and were accepted that our Apple Store Events in Germantown and Knoxville take place tomorrow, March 20th. Both start at 8 AM in their respective time zones. If you have questions about tomorrow, please feel free to post them as comments to this post and [...]
DEN Summer Institute: Apply Today (This just in from the National Blog. STAR DEN members are eligible to apply. Please read all the information in the FAQ page before filling out the application. It will be most helpful.) The DEN Summer Institute for 2010 will take place from July 18-23, 2010 at Bentley University in [...]
I have spent the last 2 days in Nashville serving on a committee to check questions on a new Constructed Response Assessment being prepared for 3rd and 7th graders in TN. The test is scheduled to be piloted next Fall. The bias committee had the privilege of reading all of the questions from all of [...]
Tennessee is ramping it up a notch with our first ever iDEN event! We are hosting two training sessions on March 20th. One is at the Apple Store in Knoxville, TN, and the other is at the Apple Store in Germantown, TN. Each event is scheduled a little differently. We will post particulars for each [...]
(Cross-posted from Clif’s Notes) As I’ve previously mentioned AudioBoo is a service that makes podcasting and audio blogging a snap. Here’s my quick demonstration. Your “boo” (That’s what they call your audio file) will be uploaded to your AudioBoo profile. You can take a look at my profile page to get an idea of what [...]
(Cross-posted from Clif’s Notes) Our kids and I have a lot of fun with AudioBoo. AudioBoo is a service that makes podcasting and audio blogging a snap and can positively impact your classroom (See examples 1, 2, 3 and 4). Although the service has previously pretty much been limited to iPhone users it is now [...]
This past Saturday the TN DEN LC, on conjunction with the Discovery Education Webinar Archives, presented SciCon 2010 Part Deux in Knoxville, TN. While our crowd was a little smaller than we would have had on our snow day, the enthusiasm of our participants was not diminished! We enjoyed a day of archival videos from [...]
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