Region 10 will be hosting this years Dallas Day of Discovery on October 11th from 8:30 – 3:30 at the Region 10 Spring Valley Site. Teachers from all over the Dallas Metroplex will be joining in on the fun and learning. This Day of Discovery will provide each participant with an exciting and enriching day [...]
Join us for a local DEN event held in Pasadena ISD. The DEN Tech or Treat Virtual Conference will be held on Oct. 22 from 8:00 am-2:00 pm (Central Time). From mashups to digital stories, you are sure to enjoy learning and creating for your classroom. Lunch will be provided and space is [...]
The DEN is all about educators who expand the walls of their classroom to the global community, and Texas DEN STAR and Leadership Council member, Joli Brock, of McKinney ISD, has done just that. Along with her students, affectionately called “Brockstars”, Joli has used various technologies in her classroom to bring the world into her [...]
What’s GNU? So, I’ve been trying out and hearing about a few new things on the technology scene. Some of my latest finds and learning more abouts are: plus.google.com — seen the little +1 button by some of the websites in a google search? Here’s more on that: http://www.google.com/+1/button/ if this, then that – http://www.ifttt.com/ – [...]
Texas educators are encouraged to attend the annual TCEA regional conference “The Power of U” being hosted by Regions 10 and 11 (Dallas-Ft. Worth) on October 22, at Timber Creek High School in Keller ISD. The small conference fee includes lunch! This year is the first time academies will be included. The academies currently [...]
“A Story Before Bed lets students, teachers, and even parents record videos of themselves reading from a large collection of online children’s books (currently over 300 books). Unlimited playback of recordings is available on iPad, iPhone, Mac, or PC” Click on the link: http://www.astorybeforebed.com/schools Watch a youtube video “Classroom Literacy Technology – A Story [...]
Simple K12 is offering a FREE day of professional development on Saturday, September 24, 2011. If you have Internet access, you can attend the information packed sessions all about integration and technology in the classroom. With 7 sessions to choose from, you are bound to find something to spark your interest. The keynote session [...]
One of the great sessions on this year’s Streamathon features author and naturalist Jean Craighead George, author of such wonderful books as Julie of the Wolves, a Newbery Award books, My Side of the Mountain, How to Talk to Your Cat and many more. For information on that special session — for teachers AND students [...]
“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 [...]
ScreenChomp gives you the ability to record on-the-go tutorials, and share them instantly. It’s as easy as uploading your videos to ScreenChomp.com, and sharing them on your blog or webpage. ScreenChomp.com lets you… Serve up a short URL that’s easy to share anywhere. Download your video as an MPEG-4 file. Share on Twitter. Just post [...]
Posted for Kass Bates: I am holding a workshop for K-2 McKinney teachers next Monday titled “Reading Rumble.” It will help to get teachers thinking about projects they can do with their students using some of latest children’s books. My plan is to create a mash-up from one of the books. So that’s definitely something [...]
Comments from the Texas team something learned at DENSI: I learned how to make a green screen (search for ”green screen”) video. I also learned about mapalist (http://mapalist.com/) www.rockourworld.org is a site dedicated to creating global connections in education. Music is the common thread that can connect us all Google + was a hot topic at DENSI as [...]
Wednesday brought the Unconference as speakers and listeners proposed and chose sessions of interest. Topics included Google+, use of blogs and Twitter in the classroom, more on Imovie and mashups, and many more great ideas. Thursday morning’s closing session speaker was the always good Hall Davidson, who showed us media clips providing inspiration and ideas [...]
Busy days, tired (but happy) nights Monday’s sessions showed us “WHERE TO” as we learned how to use Discovery Education Resources to interest, engage, and assess our students . Tuesday’s sessions gave us such session options as learning to: create mashups differentiate learning with digital resources use google earth and google lit trips use of [...]
Saturday at the DEN Summer Institute got off to a great start with special speaker Danny Forster, host of Build It Bigger, on the Discovery Science Channel (http://science.discovery.com/tv/build-bigger/meet-danny/meet-danny.html). Having covered buildings in 50 countries in his five years as host, he had plenty of examples as he spoke about design and its relationship to culture, [...]
The Texas DEN Leadership Council Webinar Series is in the planning process of a new webinar series for those geared towards existing and future DEN members. The webinars will free and open to anyone who wants to attend regardless of whether you live in Texas or in another locale. Topics for the webinars will include [...]
SUMMERTIME! WHOO HOO! Summertime can be a great time to think, evaluate, plan your technology use for next year. My motto for the students is “Thinking is good!” and that goes for educators also. A few suggestions for Discovery and summertime: 1. Evaluate what worked and what didn’t. Make adjustments where needed. 2. Look for [...]
TX DEN Geocaching Day Register here for the Texas Discovery Educator Network Geocaching Day in Houston. We have a limited number of spots for this event. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for educators. Family members are welcome. Saturday, May 21, 2011 Meet at 10:00 a.m. at Noble Road Wilderness Trail in George Bush Park, [...]
Yesterday, Region 10 had their 2011 Technology Conference. At the beginning of the conference, it was announced that the twitter #hashtag for the conference would be #r10tech. As I typed in my first twitter post with the hashtag, I heard those around me asking what a hashtag was and I even heard one person say, [...]
Quite often, teachers plan culminating activities for the school year and want to publish student work. There are a great number of online resources to share and post student work. Another avenue besides posting online to a website or blog is to design and upload the student work and then print the written piece of [...]
QR, or Quick Response, codes are those square bar codes that we are seeing more in print and online media. They are read by most smart phones and can be created easily. This project utilizes them to help students promote their online publications. Research and Write Find places in your community that deserve some more [...]
the last month of the school year. The state testing is done for most; the students — and teachers too actually — are brain-tired; what do we do? Turn to Discovery, of course! Some suggestions: have HS students explore the world of work and careers with an eye toward future — summer work or college; [...]
A couple of notes for Texas Folks: First, three of our own Texas DEN STARS (and LC members) are among the DEN Guru finalists this year. They are Kim Caise Global Collaboration Projects using Web Tools and Web Conferences Lea Anne Daughrity Touching 21st Century Science Elaine Plybon Using Media for Student-Centered Assessment They will present [...]
In the event you have been distracted by the budget crisis/shortfall for Texas public schools or caught up in the ‘madness’ over the DEN March Madness Mashup Final Round, you may have missed the bookmarks shared about creating fake Facebook pages. There has been a great deal of buzz on Twitter and other social networks [...]
The Houston DEN crew invites you to a day of learning and fun at the Houston Zoo. Join us for our 2nd annual Spring Photowalk on April 30, 2011 from 9am-2pm. We will be attending a special photography class just for our TX DEN group followed by photography fun around the zoo. We will be [...]
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