Ella (our newest STAR) and I are sitting here at Carver-Edisto MS. Ella teaches Environmental Studies & Physics at Edisto HS and is excited to learn she can be a STAR at no cost to her. We are still waiting on other teachers from other schools. More Chik Fil A for us if they don’t [...]
Professional Development for Educators needs to change. I know many schools and districts that do it right. I know many educators who have organized EdCamps to provide excellent, teacher driven professional development. I also know, and have experienced first hand, professional development that is not effective. Professional Development in many school systems is driven by [...]
I don’t know about you, but I had a blast sharing out my bag of treats at the DEN Virtual Conference on Saturday, October 22, 2011. I locked myself in my daughter’s room (having sent my husband and German Shepherd on a 2 hour errand) surrounded by my MacBook, my laptop, my iPad, the iPevo [...]
Saturday turned out to be a wonderful day at the McKinney, TX Tech or Treat Virtual Conference. With more than 20 people gathering to listen to the great virtual speakers and the local speakers as well. We had quite a full line up of local speakers for the day including Kass Bates, Mary Carol Strother, [...]
Very soon after I had just sent a message out to my Digital Storytelling students alerting them to a good sale on editing software for PC’s, I sat down next to Steve Dembo to hear a keynote speaker at Iowa’s edtech conference. Within minutes Steve showed me a free, web-based alternative to the late (temporarily, [...]
Image Source: Flickr.com janineomg I’m SUPER PSYCHED to be part of the Virtual Conference this year. I’ll be presenting at 10 a.m. (EST), so set those alarm clocks! My session is titled, ‘No Tricks, Just Treats’ and I’ll be featuring goodies from my tech bag. And since one of DEN’s mottos is, ‘We Are Our [...]
If life had a K-W-L chart, then “Curiosity” would be your curriculum. Join us for a peek at what the new program Curiosity in the Classroom offers you and your students. What questions might you be able to solve this year? Join us September 22, 2011 at 7pm ET for a free webinar Have You [...]
Did you enjoy last month’s Back to School webinars? Do you wish you had one more chance to see them? Well, back by popular demand, we are hosting MORE Back to School webinars this month! If you have Back to School fever, join us for our upcoming webinars to get your classroom connected with Discovery [...]
Get your crazy costumes ready, and mark your calendars! The fall virtual conference Tech or Treat has been scheduled for Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 9am to 3pm ET. Join us for an hour or stay all day. We’re finalizing the schedule right now, but promise a spooktackular day of professional development is coming together. [...]
DE is hosting a series of general blogging webinars (maybe with Steve Dembo?) which will include basic information on how to: customize the look and feel of the blog, create posts and pages, add multimedia and embedded objects, as well as general strategies for successful blogging. If you are new to DE blogging, want to [...]
Starting tomorrow evening and continuing for the next three weeks are the Discovery Education BTS Webinars. Each week focuses on a different topic. Topics will be shared twice a week, once on Tuesday at 7:00 pm EST and once on Wednesday at 3:30 pm EST. Come learn how to set up student accounts for your [...]
Did you enjoy the Summer School Webinars last week? Are you looking for more ideas of how to use Discovery Education in your classroom? Perhaps you were hoping to see some more “how-to” sessions for learning about setting up student accounts, creating writing prompts with the Builder Tools, or assigning content to students in the [...]
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 [...]
Calling all science teachers, grades 5-10! Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 1pm ET. Philippe Cousteau and Dr. Eduard Sarukhanian will be sharing their knowledge of the Arctic region and the effects of global warming. You and your students are invited on a journey to the Arctic with Philippe for an up [...]
Join us this May as we look back at the 2010-2011 enhancements to Discovery Education STREAMING while showcasing integration strategies for leveraging the new tools, content, and resources in the classroom. During this live event, we will also highlight upcoming, compelling content and provide a sneak peak into the 2011-2012 back to school enhancements from [...]
Enhance your use of Discovery Education SCIENCE for Middle School in the classroom with a full series of free webinars designed for new and veteran users. Join us as we explore the full range of resources available, showcase effective ways to supplement your existing curriculum with engaging digital content, and share the experiences of Connecticut [...]
The New Year New You webinar series was a great success! Over the past month, we had more than 850 educators and administrators participate. Many of these participants joined us week after week, and some even signed on with a large group of colleagues. The series began with the basics and expanded each week to [...]
Save the bottles. Save the sticks. Save the planet! Join us for an exciting webinar to learn fun and new ways to engage your students in the Elmer’s Glue Crew Recycling Program. Our guest speaker, the winner of last year’s Glue Crew Recycling Program, will share the valuable lessons her students learned about recycling and [...]
Pennsylvania Educators and Administrators, did you know that as Discovery Education subscribers, you have free access to a unique collection of career video clips, learning activities, and related content for grades K-12? In support of STEM initiatives, Discovery Education has resources that are organized by discipline and highlight the connections among science, technology, engineering, and [...]
Start off 2011 on the right foot with a full series of free professional development that is perfect for both educator and administrator. We’ll start with the basics and expand each week to explore administrative tools and resources, student access, and creating online quizzes and assignments. Click here to register. Click here to download a [...]
If you don’t already know it, Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray have assembled an UNBELIEVABLE line-up for the Global Education Conference which is currently going on (November 15 – 19, 2010), it’s online and free. Check out the numbers: 370 sessions from 62 countries! 63 keynote speakers! 219 moderator volunteers have signed up to help [...]
Starting tomorrow, the amazing Global Education Conference will be running for the whole week. This conference is totally free, totally online, and totally accessible to us all. From the GEC site: “The 2010 Global Education Conference is being held November 15 – 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple [...]
Bring your aspiring writers to a very special webinar with bestselling author, Sara Paretsky this afternoon at 1pm ET. Paretsky will share her personal journey of becoming a writer and provide valuable insights to students who have a passion for writing. She will also discuss the role that creativity plays in the writing process. After [...]
This post was created by Patti Ruffing during the Virtual Conference. DEN Virtual Conference attendees were wowed in session two by Porter Palmer’s Out of This World Ideas for Showcasing Student Work. She directed us to research from Chris Weber’s Publishing with Students: A Comprehensive Guide, especially his information on web-based publishing for students. She [...]
Considering the creativity on display Saturday, it was extremely difficult to narrow it down to ten finalists. However, with three Flip cams at stake, that’s just what we had to do! Review all ten finalists, and then use the polling widget below to cast your vote! Voting will be open until Friday morning, and the [...]
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