Join us at ASTE 2012 in Discovery Education’s dedicated suite in Hotel Captain Cook Tower II to find out more about how we’re transforming classrooms, empowering educators, and captivating students by leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content. Spread the word with this DE_2012_ASTE_flyer! Sunday, February 26 8:30 – 9:30 AM – [...]
Can you feel the excitement? It all begins at the Hershey Lodge and Conference Center in the sweetest place in Pennsylvania. Mark your calendar for Sunday, 2-12-12 from 9 AM – 3 PM. The countdown to the Discovery Educator Network PreConference at PETE&C 2011 begins. Can you feel it now? A special thanks to Max [...]
Download a printable version of Discovery Education’s TCEA corporate room schedule here: DiscoveryEducation_2012_TCEA_flyer Discovery Education will be in lots of places at TCEA – from the exhibit floor (booth #1551), to featured sessions from Hall and Steve, to our very own room at the Austin Hilton where we’ll be doing sessions all day, every day, [...]
Northwest educators, come Blaze the Educational Technology Trail at NCCE 2012 – Seattle, March 13-16! Steve Dembo and Hall Davidson are featured speakers at this action-packed conference, and no doubt they will be sharing all kinds of great ideas and resources that will keep your fire ablaze! Early bird registration is available until February 10, [...]
Educators, are you coming to Annual CUE 2012 in Palm Springs? Annual CUE 2012 March 15-17, 2012 – Palm Spring Convention Center Discovery Education will be there sharing great resources, connecting educators, and having fun! We’ll be joined by the one-and-only Matt Monjan – a spotlight speaker at this year’s conference! Check out Matt’s sessions [...]
If you are a technology enthusiast in Michigan, you have probably seen advertisements for the MACUL (Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning) Conference each year. It is one that our district has made a priority for the “tech leaders” in order to keep us current in educational technology trends. If you are unfamiliar with [...]
Today, SXSW (South by Southwest) launched their PanelPicker voting for the second annual SXSWedu taking place March 6-8, 2012 in Austin, TX. A new component to the longstanding SXSW Interactive Festival, SXSWedu focuses on innovations in learning, bringing together a wide variety of education and business professionals who share an interest in 21st Century teaching [...]
Last week, I had the absolute pleasure of attending my first-ever International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference in Philadelphia. Since I was a newbie, I attempted to gather as much information before arrival as possible. I read up on all the advice the “veterans” had posted on the Conference Ning and the ISTE Young Educators Network [...]
Director of Account Management for the Discover Educator Network The Educators’ Day of Discovery, Beyond the Textbook, began with Homeroom, Morning Announcements and a DiscoverySTREAMING overview, and then officially began with Matt Monjan’s keynote address. Here’s the thumbnail sketch of Matt’s keynote: Not only does today’s student want to be engaged through technology, media, and [...]
Register for this in person event in Georgia here: https://lrougeux.wufoo.com/forms/m6x2p5/ *Virtual Sessions (All times are eastern) 9 AM Time, Differentiation and Online Publishing: Dr. Lodge McCammon Dr. Lodge will discuss practical strategies that can be implemented to increase valuable classroom time while meeting the needs of diverse learners. He will show samples of how low-barrier [...]
The Georgia Council for History Education is the state affiliate of the National Council for History Education (NCHE). The NCHE Conference is being held March 31st – April 2nd in Charleston, SC. The theme for this year is The Causes and Consequences of Civil Wars. If you love teaching history and want to promote the [...]
Spring Virtual Conference Virginia Sites April 30, 2011 9 AM to 3 PM ET Think Outside the Book with thousands of educators from all over the world as we connect during this unique professional development experience where you can attend in-person at one of two Virginia face-to-face sites! Learn powerful ways to integrate digital media [...]
Tech4Learning will be at the following New Jersey Conferences: 25th Annual NJECC Conference – Tuesday, March 15th Facilitating Student-Led Projects in the Elementary Classroom University Hall Room# 1142 Hands On Workshop: Pre-registration required. Ms. Joan Gundy, Millburn BOE and Denise MacDevette, Tech4Learning 10:45-12:15 P.M. Digital Storytelling Montclair State University University Hall Room #2009 Denise MacDevette, Tech4Learning [...]
I know it seems like the summer is far far away but it is never too early to plan for summer learning fun. This summer there will be many training opportunities throughout the state of Virginia, listed below are two such options. Think about presenting and sharing a great lesson or project that you found [...]
The many faces you saw at the PreCon are the same faces of DEN STARS and GURUS you will see at PETE&C. Here are some of them we captured Beyond the Textbook. These DEN STARS shared at the Lunch and Learn session. These are the faces of the sharers and the sharing, DEN STARS all. [...]
If you missed some of the concurrent sessions or the Lunch and Learn breakout sessions, our new Regional Coordinator, Cynthia Brown, collected resources I am sharing here. In addition, Patti Duncan created Edmodo codes for each session, so I culled the resources from the Lunch & Learn sharing sessions. Sit back and relax as you [...]
Lance Rougeux introduced Beyond the Textbook and Homeroom announcements with a Beyond Inspiration video. Our 6th Annual DEN PreCon began in 2005 and DE has continued to support Discoverystreaming/Plus and have continued to move forward their expansion in 3 states. They have moved Beyond the Textbook to a techbook. It’s hard to predict what will [...]
Joe Bires Bud Hunt, aka, budtheteacher, on Dr. Remix caught my attention by the title, his reputation, and his essential questions for engaging conversation. Hunt is joining us from Colorado via Skype. He is joined live with Joe Bires on site at SLA. From the program precis: Where do our ideas come from? How do [...]
Jason Bedell helping a teacher create a blog I came to this session late, but discovered that promoting reflection was about blogging. Having 4 blogs and having been a podcaster, I was familiar with this session’s content, but I was not about to leave. If there was a gem to glean from this presentation, I [...]
Using Google Docs to Improve Student Writing View more presentations from Larissa Pahomov. Larissa Pahomov is an English teacher at SLA. She begins by asking what you want your students to learn from your writing assignments. We began with a brainstorming conversation to answer Larissa’s question. Our results: writing for publication, clarity of expression, analysis [...]
] EduCon 2.32 Friday Night Panel Planners of EduCon 2.3 have assembled yet again another stellar panel for the Friday Night Panel discussion, Why Does Innovation Matter? Held at the Franklin Institute on January 28, 2011 from 6-8 PM ET, this year’s panel includes: Matt Berg – ICT Director of the Millennium Villages Project and [...]
Clif Mims, TN DEN LC member, Executive Director of the Martin Institute, and teacher extraordinaire, has forwarded the following announcement for a fantastic professional development opportunity in West Tennessee… I’d like to invite you to the 2011 Martin Institute Spring Conference, Teaching for Tomorrow, to be held February 3-4 at Presbyterian Day School. See the [...]
Hi All, There are still a few spaces for Dinner with the Stars. Plan to join us for an evening of networking, hibachi, and erupting volcanoes hosted by your Virginia DEN! Seating is limited to 40 people and you must be a STAR to register for the dinner. Each STAR may also register one guest! [...]
There are some very cool educational “conferences” or “unconferences” coming up that everyone should check out. These are all in the Northeast (NY, NJ, and MA). They are all FREE! EdCampNYC – EdCamp NYC is an unconference about K-12 education issues and ideas. It is Saturday, December 4th, 2010 and will be held at the [...]
The DEN presence was very apparent at this year’s MassCUE Annual Conference at the end of October. Stars presented on a variety of topics showing the range of interests and expertise in our professional learning/sharing network. Several of us also gathered at lunch on the first day; it was great to put some names and [...]
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