I walked into my classroom last Thursday for the first time all summer! If you know me.. this is kind of crazy! I had not seen the inside of my classroom ALL summer! I had been filling my brain with all of the amazing professional development I was getting through ISTE, Podstock, and DENSI2012. [...]
In April, Joli Barker was named a finalist in round 1 of the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US forum. Although Joli and I live in the same area, I had a chance to meet her face to face at DENSI2012 in Montana. I love meeting other educators that are passionate about what they [...]
My first ever Discovery Education Network Summer Institute is coming to a close. I have made some amazing connections, learned a ton of new things, and have a plethora of ideas that I am going to try next year. There have been a ton of amazing blogs that have already been posted, so I don’t want to [...]
June 19th, 7 pm to 8 pm CST Topic: Using Apps and Devices with Special Needs Students Moderator – Betsy Ruffin with Special Guest Linda Rush Use hash tag #AppyHour #AppyHour is a Tweet Chat held on the third Tuesday of each month and hosted by the Texas Leadership Council of the Discovery Educator Network [...]
With summer just around the corner (7 days of school left.. not that I am counting) I am looking forward to the professional development that I will be able to take in over the summer! Although attending conferences face to face are fantastic, it is not always feasible or affordable. A great way to still [...]
Texas Stars shown at the 2012 DENnys awards, streaming live from Discovery HQ in Maryland. In the Most Creative/Best DEN event category was Howard Martin, from Austin, with his SXSiPad event. “We did a South By Southwest-themed iPad event called, South By South iPad. Almost 50 people converged for a full day of concurrent sessions [...]
This weekend (May 19, 2012) I had the chance to participate in the DEN Geocaching Day in Dallas, Texas. Laura Gonzalez set up the FANTASTIC event in our area! What is Geocaching you ask? “Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and [...]
As the end of the school year draws near, I wanted to look back and share some super cool websites/apps that have made my life a little easier. Being a teacher for children with varying abilities I am constantly taking data and reassessing students needs and accomplishments. Each of these websites I plan to play [...]
Been looking at a few new things: 1. Teachers Paying Teachers– browse this computer science-technology section; buy the lessons, etc created by educators 2. Vook — a new twist on ebooks — http://vook.com/ 3. Vidinstructor — ecommerce but could haveeducational applications — http://vidstructor.com/ What are you investigating?
The Texas Computer Educator’s Association (TCEA) has announced a call for presenters for its 2013 Convention & Exposition to be held February 4-8, 2013, in Austin. The theme for the conference is Fusion: Learning in a New Light. TCEA has been a favorite for convention-goers for several years, drawing educators from all over Texas and [...]
Congrats to Texas DEN Star and Leadership Council member Joli Barker! She is one of a select group of educators invited to Redmond this summer for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum. Here is news on this special program and Joli’s fantastic project: The Partners in Learning US Forum is part of a [...]
Testing is over for most, the end of the year is in sight — it is WAY to easy to just coast the rest of the year. However, this time can be a great time to bring those special , extra, or just plain fun learning items that too often get pushed aside in the rest [...]
DEN Guru Finalists Kim Chaise This is my 2nd year on the Leadership Council and I also co-host the Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar series on Saturday mornings in Blackboard Collaborate featuring ways to integrate technology in the classroom. I am a national board educator in the area of technology education and have been in education [...]
Right up front, I’ll say that it is not an official SXSW event, but this SXSiPad will be a fun day of Discovering about using iPads in the classroom! We are going to have multiple venues, er, sessions about using iPads as instructional tools, managing Apps on the iPad, setting up iPads for classroom use, [...]
It started with a Facebook message….39 DEN friends wishing each other luck…. Hoping and waiting for the weekly release of DENSI 2012 picks while sharing how we could not wait to see each other. One message lead to the next and soon a google doc was born, a date and place chosen to get our [...]
The Texas DEN Leadership Council hosted a Twitter chat on Tuesday, March 20, called ‘Appy Hour’ using the hashtag #appyhour. If you saw tweets flying by sharing outstanding information or answering questions related to the instructional uses of apps in the classroom then you saw part of the #appyhour Twitter chat. Questions were posed throughout [...]
It is the last day of our school districts spring break. I have had a chance to spend a ton of hours in bed (if you know me.. this is NOT a common occurrence at all) I am trying to get energized for the next few months of school. How do you energize yourself to be [...]
Remember to join us for the Appy Hour on March 20 starting at 6 PM CST via Twitter. We will tweet about great educational applications for iPads and Android devices. For more on this see the following links: http://appyhourattheicafe.wikispaces.com/ http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2012/02/26/appy-hour-the-icafe-with-the-tx-den/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DEN-Texas+%28Discovery+Educator+Network+-+Texas%29
By Linda Rush Using the $15 Reflection App on an Apple computer, it’s now possible to MIRROR the screen of an iPad2 or iPhone4S right on your screen. AirPlay mirror your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 to any Mac running OS X 10.6+, wirelessly. This makes your Apple computer function like an AppleTV for iOS mirroring, except [...]
What an honor it is for Texas to have their very own National School Board Association Top 20 to watch on the Leadership Council! Below is the excerpt posted on the NSBA site. Make sure to take a moment and congratulate her! She certainly deserves it! Andrea Keller, LIFE K-5 Special Education Teacher, Elliott Elementary [...]
Come Join the TX DEN for our first Tweet Chat Appy Hour on Twitter ~ Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at 6pm CST with hashtag #appyhour. During this fun hour of learning, the TX DEN will lead discussions on using Apps effectively throughout the content areas in k-12 education. While its important to know the best [...]
TCEA attendees got to attend a VIP reception to meet and mingle with Discovery’s Animal Planet host, Dave Salmoni. Dave Salmoni is going to host a live virtual field trip in March and bring the world of animals and the African savannah into the classrooms around the globe. Students will get to interact virtually with [...]
During the week February 6-10, 2012, the Texas Computer Educator Association’s convention was held in Austin, Texas. The opening keynote was Discovery’s own Mythbuster’s co-host, Tory Belleci. He provided a poignant, hilarious look at his own struggle at education and explained why he not only desired to learn science but to ‘do’ science. Tory explained [...]
The Texas DEN Leadership Council participated in an Iron DEN Challenge at TCEA in Austin, Texas during the week of the convention. The ‘Special Ingredient’ was an picture of a spitting camel that all teams had to incorporate into their unique team’s digital artifacts. Many teams used audio, the Blabberize site, or some other type [...]
I had the excellent opportunity to attend the 2012 Texas Computer Education Association in Austin, Texas two weeks ago to see the latest technology being pushed into the education world. As mentioned in my blog post last week, I was amazed at the different kinds of new tech hardware and software available to classrooms that [...]
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