The time for back to school night has come again. Every year I am excited to try something new that will make the experience better for my students and better for my parents. The problem with back to school night has been I have felt like I just ran a marathon and have [...]
For those that missed the Exciting Enhancements to Discovery Education webinars last week, you still have two chances to catch them! The webinars will again be presented today, Wednesday September 12th and tomorrow, Thursday September 13th. Don’t miss your chance to get a peek at the great new updates that we’re offering this year! Here’s [...]
As Mousey mentioned yesterday, Discovery Education is continuing to offer special weekly webinars designed to help teachers and students transition into the brand new school year with our various services. The focus this week will be on the administrative and user management functions for the site. Administrators will learn how to navigate My Admin, update user [...]
It’s August and whether you’re ready or not, school will be starting shortly. It’s also Connected Educator Month, a month centered around community and learning with others. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce an exciting Back to School promotion with our friends at PhotoPeach. The promotion starts today and ends August 24th. [...]
It’s August and August brings a range of emotions for those in education. Educators across the country are getting that strange feeling in their stomach this time of year. For some, it’s an eager feeling of excitement because the new school year is starting. For others, it’s a different feeling because their summer break is [...]
Looking for upcoming content for Discovery Education? Here is a list of a few great new titles and brief descriptions that you can use in the classroom to engage your students! Fantastic Festivals of the World: Hong Kong Chinese New Year Chinese festivals occur according to the lunar calendar. The first and the “mother of [...]
Our content team is continuously working to update content available to all Discovery Education users. Here are some of our most recently added series for streaming users… The PBS NewsHour: Bin Laden Death a ‘Very Big Victory,’ But Not ‘Happily Ever After’ Jim Lehrer discusses the impact of Osama bin Laden’s death on U.S. foreign [...]
We’re going to start our Back to School series with a more in depth look into our newest feature for DE admins, the Bulk Import/Update Classes tool. This tool can be used to provide your students and teachers access to Discovery Education Streaming as well as to assign them to classes you have created. Creating [...]
Welcome back to school! We hope everyone has had an AMAZING summer and is excited to get back to the classroom. If you are already missing the days off at the pool or beach (because why wouldn’t you), hopefully, we can help make the transition back a little easier, with our “Back to School Series” [...]
Kudos to those that have joined us for our Back to School Webinars. You are now ready to kick-start the school year prepared with additional content, resources and tools at your fingertips. It’s not too late to join in an exploration of our back to school updates to Discovery Education streaming! We’ll take you behind-the-scenes [...]
If you don’t know about the ongoing Back to School Webinars we’re hosting, check them out! Today at 1pm EST we began the Discovery Education Assessment series that highlights all of the exciting upgrades for the 10-11 school year. We’ve been collecting your suggestions and comments and can’t wait to show you the new features [...]
Click your heels three times and say Webinars, Webinars, Webinars! Yes, you get to vote on the Webinar topic you want to see Discovery Education Canada host! Start integrating digital media into your classroom lessons. Did you know we just added more Canadian digital content? Don’t know how to use it? Let us help [...]
As you know throughout the year we collect your Discovery Education suggestions and comments. Then, every summer, we take your suggestions and launch enhancements to the site. Well this summer is no different and I am really excited in the direction that we are moving! For example, the Assignment Builder, Writing Prompt Builder, and Quiz [...]
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 [...]
Houston was the place to be on Saturday (7.25) as 55 educators from the Houston area arrived bright and early at Minute Maid park for a Day of Discovery. Following a ball park lunch (hot dogs!), the group was given a tour of the ball park that included a visit to the Diamond Club, the [...]
We’ve got some wonderful enhancements coming your way this fall! Discover the undiscovered and learn about new content and functionality for the 2009-2010 school year. Register today for a Discovery Education Back-to-School Preview webinar to learn all about the new enhancements to Discovery Education streaming that will be coming your way this summer. We will [...]
Wow I’m really digging my new digs here on this site! Way to go Mr. Dembo! Yesterday I had a chance to speak with a lot of DEN Stars, members and teachers from all over the country during the DEN Stream-a-thon. I promised you all that I would post the presentations that I used during [...]
I know, I know, we have been stuck on the letter "B" forever. I promise to resume the march through the alphabet very soon. Recently I have been on a whirlwind tour of the states. I was in Berkeley, CA participating in the DEN Institute, then it was off to MD, VA, PA, NJ (pretty [...]
The idea of this posting, and its subsequent postings comes, from my good friend, and DEN Star Member, Stevie Kline – Intermediate Unit One Coal Center in Pennsylvania. During a recent conversation Stevie asked me if we could include some information for users that are not only brand new to unitedstreaming, but may be getting [...]
They say that imitation is the purest form of flattery. Well this posting and the ideas attached in it aren’t so much imitation as much as they are blatant "borrowing" from our very own DEN Manager Extraordinare, Lance Rougeux. Recently I had the opportunity to present to a group of educators attending WHRO’s Tech Trek [...]
Exciting news! We have just improved and updated the Assignment, Quiz and Writing Prompt Builders. Here is how each builder has been made better. Assignment Builder Improvements Now, when you build your content, you can Bold Text, change the color of your text, add numbering and bullets, sub and super scripts, special characters, tables and [...]
Over the past few weeks we have received lots of "How Do I…?" e-mails and phone calls. The response has always been to provide the answer and direct them to the appropriate blog posting for future reference. Now it used to be that if you were searching for a particular solution, say getting closed-captioning to [...]
Soon after Planet Earth aired on the Discovery Channel, requests from educators around the country started to pour in. We received questions like, "How soon will DVDs be available?" "Can I use the DVDs in schools?" And, of course the inevitable, "How much?" Well, my friends, here is the good news. Discovery Education has procured [...]
Ok so here we are on Friday and, as promised, here is the third of three postings on The Builders (Assignment, Quiz and Writing Prompt). Today we’re going to tackle the Writing Prompt Builder. The Writing Prompt Builder is a tool that allows you to tie together any image that you find on unitedstreaming with [...]
Ok so here we are on Friday and, as promised, here is the third of three postings on The Builders (Assignment, Quiz and Writing Prompt). Today we’re going to tackle the Writing Prompt Builder. The Writing Prompt Builder is a tool that allows you to tie together any image that you find on unitedstreaming with [...]
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