An excellent digital resource from Discovery Education One of my favorite cancer resources is Discovery Health, and I use it in the classroom, even though I teach English. Why? Because this product has relevance to every curriculum. Cancer touches every family. I have students battling cancer, as well as their family members. Art imitates life, [...]
White tab for DE Webinar Calendar Webinar Calendar on PA Blog Discovery Education Webinars has its mojo working with a week of terrific professional development opportunities. Your PA bloggers want to make your access easy, so you might want to check our DE Webinars tab on our blog for a complete and updated list of [...]
What a week! We have been thrilled with the amount of STARs who have celebrated with us over the past five days. Just in case you missed any of our special promotions for the community you have until Sunday to continue the celebration. Here is a summary of DEN Teacher Appreciation Week benefits for STARs. [...]
Welcome back to the new school year! To help you get started, register for a Discovery Education streaming Back-to-School Enhancements webinar to learn about all the new benefits of Discovery Education streaming . Filter search results more effectively Discover related resources to the videos you choose Students may access assignments from anywhere, anytime using their [...]
One of the most anticipated features of the Summer 2009 release of Discovery Education is the My Classrooms feature. With My Classrooms . . . Each Student will then have the ability to: Access all of their assignments, quizzes etc. in one convenient location. Search for and save content into their own My Content area [...]
I love being able to bookmark content on the Internet to make it easier for me to access anywhere, anytime (especially, when I really need to find that great video segment I used last year for tomorrow’s lesson . . .) Discovery Education streaming and Science used to have a product-specific My Content that allowed [...]
If there is one natural resource consistently in VERY short supply for teachers it is time. When I was in the classroom I never seemed to have enough time to gather all the resources to build the type of learning experiences I envisioned for my students. That’s why I was so taken with the new [...]
Here is another REALLY cool feature of the 2009 launch of Discovery Education — sharing media assets out to your professional learning network with a simple one-click post. Check it out . . . (click here to see the image in a new window) By clicking on the new Share tab on the media asset [...]
Have you logged into Discovery Education in the past week? If not, you REALLY need to log in to check out the new content and features upgrades. I am going to be blogging about these upgrades over the next couple weeks. The new feature upgrade for today is the unified search on the new universal [...]
Discover the undiscovered and explore the new content and functionality for the 2009-2010 school year. All STAR DEs now have the option to access the beta version of Discovery Education’s new content and functionality.You can access the new site by clicking on the “Try the new Site” link at the top of your MY DE page. If [...]
We look forward to celebrating the DEN’s fourth birthday with many of our STARs at our pre-NECC Birthday Party Extravaganza on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at Discovery Headquarters. If you are staying for NECC, I strongly encourage you to check out the following sessions from the DEN team. Using Multimedia in the Classroom Join mimio and [...]
I know what you’re thinking . . . “we JUST finished the school year – I’m not ready to think about Back to School season!” But, we have some really cool content and feature enhancements to Discovery Education that we want to share with our DEN community. For those STARs who are conducting summer workshops [...]
We’re celebrating all week, but today is extra special – National Teacher Appreciation Day. The entire Discovery family really appreciates the DEN community. Our STARs make our jobs a lot of fun and in return we want to make sure you receive the support you need. So for today we thought it would be a [...]
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