Day of Discovery Event: Discover Our Heroes (sponsored by Discovery Education and the Kansas Discovery Educator Network Leadership Council) When: Saturday, November 6th Where: Bradley Elementary School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Time: 8:30 – 2:30 Cost: FREE (lunch will be provided) Join us for a day of Discovery Education and Digital Storytelling at Bradley Elementary, located [...]
Have you noticed how different your dashboard looks when you log in to DE this year? Well there are a number of new features on your dashboard that will help you maximize your use of DE content as well as help you keep up to date with upcoming events within the DEN. I will highlight [...]
On October 8, 2010 Discovery Education streamed across the web using Livestream to announce their release of Discovery Education on the iPad. Yes, your fingers can now do some walking through Discovery Education. This site provides you a wealth of options with videos already matched up to meet your interests. Here is the list of [...]
This summer educators from across the U.S. and Canada traveled to Bentley University in Waltham, MA for the Discovery Educator Network Summer Institute. As an attendee I can definitely say that it was an amazing learning and growing experience and that I now have SO MUCH to share with educators “back home.” While we were [...]
Attention all Discovery Education and iPhone/Touch application users – Discovery Education releases their own U.S. Geography application on June 17, 2010 for $4.99. This is a stand alone application and NOT part of the paid subscription.(Here is the information from June Newsletter)
If you participated in our Spring Virtual Conference or our Teacher Appreciation Week, then you already know that change was in the air. Well, today we go live! The next generation of the DEN community website is up and we couldn’t be more thrilled. It features an all new look and feel, designed to keep [...]
This year’s spring virtual conference will be held on April 24. The high-quality, professional development seminars scheduled for this event will focus on providing attendees the skills, techniques and tools they need to leap into the world of digital content and educational technology. You will have the oppor tunity to learn from education exper ts [...]
Educators are always on the look out for something new to introduce and stimulate student learning through engagement. Discovery Education has provided educators two new great resources: Ready Zone: Continuity of Learning and STEM Connect. These are available in the “Teacher Center” of Discovery Education. Ready Zone was created to provide opportunities for ongoing education of [...]
Differentiated Instruction is defined by Wikipedia as “…providing students with different avenues to acquiring content; to processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and to developing teaching products so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively, regardless of differences in ability.“ I ask this question of all educators “Is this not what we [...]
As the Kansas Discovery Leadership Council talks with educators across Kansas we learn that most teachers are not aware of the numerous tools provided for classroom integration. Therefore, we are going to start developing a series of blog posts focusing on specific tools offered within Discovery Education Streaming regardless of which version you can access. [...]
Today the KS DEN Leadership Council sponsored a Day of Discovery in conjunction with the Discovery Education Virtual Conference at Brooks Middle School in Wichita, KS. Over 20 educators from Wichita, Mulvane, and Hutchinson school districts arrived ready for a great learning experience, and that’s exactly what they got. Not only were there face to [...]
So what exactly is MediaShare? Well on the Quick Start Guide, Discovery Education describes it as “a web-based content sharing system that enables educators to utilize the best resources through uploading, sharing, managing, and distributing user-created or licensed, digital content.” But what does that mean? Well basically, as a member of the Discovery Educator Network [...]
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