The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is now open for entries for 2010. The challenge is the nation’s premier science competition for students in grades 5 through 8. Ten finalists will be selected to receive an all-expense paid trip to New York City to compete in the final challenge in October. The winner will [...]
What a great place to hold an event for Discovery Education…a school. No room fees, no charge for Internet, and we even get to sit in those little chairs. I was pretty pumped up when I found out that Propel Montour would be hosting this very unique virtual conference on January 9th. Even though it is [...]
We have a lot of programs that teachers and their students can participate in for free. One of my personal favorites is the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge. The Challenge is designed to help your students work together to solve an environmental problem in their… Classroom (K-2) School (3-5) Community (6-8) Participating is [...]
Please watch the video of our Palm Beach School Districts for the MILLIONTH stream….
The voting was fierce, as the ranks shifted several times over the last few days. But when the dust settled, three winners emerged! Congrats to all the winners, a brand new HD Flip Cam is going to be in the mail to you. And many thanks to everybody who participated, it truly put the ‘treat’ [...]
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Apparently, that’s what the Department of Education thinks and would like to hear students’ thinking on that in a 2 minute video. And by student they mean “an active middle, secondary or college student 13 years or older.” I’m sure they set 13 as the starting point because of YouTube’s terms of service. If sharing [...]
Just got a press release from the American Film Institute announcing a major upgrade for the ScreenNation site. There doesn’t seem to be a hard date yet, so I’m guessing by the end of summer at the latest. Join me in posting some of your favorite moivemaking how-to’s and/or encourage your students to share their [...]
Most of us think of June 6th as D-Day, the Normandy Invasion. Well my neighbors and their teacher, Tricia Fuglestad, down at the Dryden school here in Arlington Heights, IL added their own “D” this year on June 6th as they won two first place awards at the Shortie Awards festival in D.C. I had [...]
The latest round of winners have been announced in ISTE‘s 30th anniversary, tell your technology story. But don’t dismay – you still have until June 15th to upload your story to be in the running for a trip to NECC Denver in 2010. Check out all the videos celebrating our journey incorporating technology into the [...]
Since NECC is just four weeks away and the deadline to get your impact of technology story celebrating ISTE‘s 30th anniversary in, in time for this month’s drawing (an HP mini notebook or iPod touch, Flip video camera, and the ISTE book, Visual Arts Units for All Levels) deadline is May 31st, I thought it [...]
The clock is winding down on this year’s Discovery Education and 3M Young Scientist Challenge. To add just a little more impetus to your students joining in or simply using digital storytelling to share what they know or care about in science, last year’s Young Scientist of the Year, Melissa Rey, will be doing a [...]
FYI, just got this from the Center for Digital Storytelling: Dear Friends of the Center for Digital Storytelling, As we wrote last month, the 2nd International Day for Sharing Life Stories will take place this Saturday, May 16th, 2009. We are asking all of the folks on our mailing list to take 10 minutes [...]
The deadline for your 5th-8th science students to get their video application in for the Discovery/3M Young Scientist Challenge is exactly 2 weeks away. In addition to the little pep talk from Will Smith on their main page, we’ve scheduled a webinar with ’08′s Young Scientist of the Year, Melissa Rey. You can get one [...]
Don’t forget the Young Scientist Challenge. Watch his video on the website. Click on it as it cycles through or hit the #1 box.
Just 16 days and counting til the deadline for the Discovery Education & 3M Young Scientist Challenge 5th-8th grade video applications are due. The YSC site has a list of helpful links to presentations that Hall and I did specifically for this nation wide search. I haven’t seen any of this year’s entries yet but [...]
Now’s the time for students to enter the nation’s premier science competition for grades 5 through 8. The deadline for the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is May 20. Over the summer, judges will choose up to 51 semifinalists: one from each state and the District of Columbia. Ten finalists will be selected to [...]
The last Friday in April has been a dilemma for me the last few years because both the Chicagoland Television Educators Video Festival and Tech&Learning magazine’s TechForum Midwest always fall on that same day. I feel a bit cheated because I only get a half day at each learning event. Add to it the DEN [...]
Here are the links to the student video sites I mentioned during Tuesday’s webinar and a SlideShare version of the PowerPoint I used. Discovery Education and 3M’s Young Scientist Challenge: Air Pressure. The Flat Classroom Project’s Mobile Citizen Journalist. Brainy Flix’s ACT/SAT video vocabulary builders: Cadence. Great Minds Foundation Anti-smoking PSA. The Net Generation Video [...]
Our friends at Tech4Learning are sponsoring a timely contest–Dear Mr. President. With today’s struggling economies and natural resource questions, the government needs your help. President Obama has named you as his chief student adviser. What issue would you like him to address in the near future? Why? What should he consider? Create a 21st-century position [...]
There are just about six weeks left to get your 5th to 8th grade students’ video entries in to qualify for this year’s Discovery/3M Young Scientist Challenge. Even though the contest states that “Videos do NOT need to be ‘produced’ or have high production value,” Hall Davidson and I have posted a number of resources [...]
…a thousand pictures in the form of a good video illustrating what it means. Though I’m sorry if you might find yourself in a rather impecunious state or feel that your students are obstreperous and loquacious having just come back from spring break with only the end of the school year on their minds, I [...]
No, not for your taxes – there are still over two weeks for that. Last chance to contribute a video to the Net Gen Education Challenge. “A crisis is emerging in our schools and universities. The Internet is a new medium for human communications, knowledge sharing and learning and a new generation of youth who [...]
A couple of years ago a young high school student in a nearby suburb wrote his village to say that a town like theirs should have a student film festival. The Village of Schaumburg agreed and Screen Test Student Fest was born. It has been a real pleasure to watch both the festival and the [...]
Here are the PowerPoint and the links from today’s webinar AND I just realized there are a number of entries already posted on the NetGen site. The American Film Institute’s ScreenNation. Student viewing and sharing site. Marco Torres’ students at SFETT. Great work from an L.A. high school. Frank Guttler’s Google Teacher Academy application video [...]
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