Last night we celebrated our second annual DENny Awards, and what a celebration it was! If you missed it, don’t worry. We archived the entire thing and you can watch it below. Please join me in congratulating this year’s DENny Award winners! PL-DEN Award Erin Misegadis, KS Dean Mantz, KS Mary Del Bianco, MD DENnis [...]
Here is the archive of yesterday’s powerful Prezi presentation.
Lorraine Kaplan and Janet Susin are members of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), who also happen to be educators, mothers, and parents of children who have suffered with mental illness. Janet and Lorraine recently hosted a webinar representing theNAMI during which they provided a great wealth of insights into working with children suffering [...]
DEN in Ten Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education, Mechanicsburg, PA The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a global community of educators passionate about teaching in the 21st century. In this session we’ll explore all of the benefits the DEN offers and take a look at the many events planned for 2010. If you aren’t part of [...]
Rock OUR World! Carol Anne McGuire, STAR Discovery Educator, Anaheim, CA Is global collaboration an educational reality? Or just a buzzword? See how K-12 students have rocked their world by solving real problems while composing music, making movies and learning about each other in live video conferences. What a great time to be an educator! [...]
Connecting Language Learners to the Curriculum through Digital Media Lindsay Hopkins, Discovery Education, Los Angeles, CA With diverse classroom populations, your ability to differentiate feels more important than ever. In this session, explore Discovery Education through the lens of Language Learners and see how digital media and technology can engage and benefit students from all [...]
Cell Phones, Internet and Oprah: How the US Presence in Iraq Has Affected Women’s Lives Christina Asquith, Author of “Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq” What do Muslim women think about America? Journalist Christina Asquith spent five years living and reporting in the Middle East. For her [...]
When You’re Not the Smartest Person in the Room Dean Shareski, Digital Learning Consultant, Prairie South School Division, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada The moment you bring an internet connection into the classroom, you open up you and your students to a vast world of knowledge, possibilities and connections. Many teachers are beginning to realize this [...]
Homework Gone Digital Matt Monjan, Discovery Education, Silver Spring, MD Learn how to differentiate your instruction and connect with your students using the Discovery Education Student Center. We’ll start by creating quizzes, assignments and writing prompts using the Builders in DE streaming. Then we’ll create a classroom and show you how to assign content to [...]
Connections, Conversations, and Collaborations: Creating a Personal Learning Network That Works For You Lee Kolbert, DEN Guru, Palm Beach County, FL Thanks to the influx of social tools on the Internet, educators are becoming increasingly empowered to control their learning environment. We are no longer limited by the physical proximity of colleagues to discuss issues [...]
Yesterday the Siemens STEM Academy hosted an amazing webinar with Philippe Cousteau. More than 15,000 students were in attendance to hear him share his thoughts on how the growth of the environmental movement has created positive impacts for our planet, and how students have the power to make a positive difference over the next fifty [...]
What an amazing webinar with Dr. Temple Grandin last night!! Dr. Grandin provided those in attendance with an insight into what it is like to view the world as an autistic person as well as tips for teachers on how to support students with autism or Aspergers. In addition, the DEN showed it’s true powers [...]
Here are the links to the videos from this webinar: Door Scene Pictures of You Compression Cockroach Burger
Alan Levine’s EdTechConnect presentation has been converted and is now available within MediaShare and the DEN Educator Resource Library. Thanks to everyone who attended! If you couldn’t be there, here’s your chance to give it a view. Well worth watching, he shares some fantastic ideas for using Web 2.0 tools to create digital stories with [...]
Here are the resources from Jim Clark’s presentation on Geocaching. Here’s his presentation: Educational geocaching presentation
Speakers include Simon Hauger, director of the West Philadelphia High School Automotive Academy’s innovative Electric Vehicle Program, and Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, author of The Physics of NASCAR , a fascinating explanation of the science behind the popular sport.
Michio Kaku is a best selling author, host of two national weekly science radio programs, and frequent guest on television shows including Larry King, 60 Minutes, 20/20 and many more. He has hosted numerous series for the Science Channel and is currently increasing people’s Science IQ every Sunday night in the series “SciQ“. If you’ve [...]
Over 1600 educators attended the DEN Virtual Conference last Saturday and I think about 1300 of them emailed me to ask when the archives will be available! Well, thanks for waiting patiently, and now your patience is being rewarded! The entire Virtual Conference, all seven hours of it, has now been posted online! If you [...]
Learn all about Discovery Student Adventures and the Five Themes of Geography from the teachers and students who journeyed to Australia in the summer of 2009.
We had a fantastic turnout yesterday for our webinar about H1N1. Over 10,000 students from around the globe participated! In case you missed it, you can view the archived version on the Ready Classroom website. Just click on Make a Plan and select H1N1 Webcast.
Michael Hakkarinen took on the iMovie webinar duties on August 6th and diplomatically stuck with iMovie HD6, avoiding the iMovie ’08 and ’09 quagmire. I won’t stick my foot in that (or my mouth) right now except to say that if you have iMovie ’08 in your school/district, update to ’09 ASAP. It’s very [...]
Suddenly no one is wearing white, so it must be after Labor Day! To much controversy and hoopla, the president has welcomed our students back and encouraged them to work hard. And we are all wondering where the summer went. So just in case you missed our back to school summer webinars that would have [...]
We’ve been busy converting and uploading all the archives from our incredible Summer School webinar series. While we still have quite a few to go, nearly half the webinars have been posted and are ready for you to download and share them with others! As they get converted, we’re posting them here, so check it [...]
When most teachers have to start thinking about letting go of their summer and start preparing for the fall, they do so reluctantly. Not in Fort Bend and Houston ISDs! Over the last two days, I had the pleasure of sharing the good news about the new features of Discovery Education streaming with over 200 [...]
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