This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from PA STAR Discovery Educator, Deborah Heigel on Interactive PowerPoints Using Discovery Education. Click here to download the presentation. All Discovery Educators have access to the DENSI projects and more [...]
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation just announced the launch of a new online curriculum powered by Discovery Education. Promoting ways to help young people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out – this curriculum is now available at no cost to educators at www.energybalance101.com Olympic gold medal gymnast Shannon Miller [...]
Will our students be ready for a global workplace? Transforming Student Learning with CBL Last year, Salisbury Township School District implemented Professional Learning Communities K-12 as a way for teachers to model the District’s Mission Statement: Inspire, Think, Learn, Grow ~ Together. And together we have learned and taught, researched and studied, traveled in [...]
Bring your aspiring writers to a series of very special webinars on with bestselling authors, Sandra Brown, Sara Paretsky, and Harlan Coben. The authors will share their personal journeys of becoming a writer and provide valuable insights to students who have a passion for writing. They will also discuss the role that creativity plays in [...]
Where can you find free teacher resources, lesson plans to improve student writing, and tools that demonstrate the power of storytelling in your classroom? hubforteachers.com is a dynamic new website for educators focused on the power of a good story. Whether it is through the written word or through the use of digital storytelling, this [...]
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This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from SC STAR Discovery Educator, Kathy Seibert and MI STAR Discovery Educator, Gena Price on How to Import PPT Slides into MovieMaker . All Discovery Educators have access to the [...]
This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from Maryland STAR Discovery Educators, Carmella Doty and Renee Henderson on Using Discovery Resources in a Wiki. All Discovery Educators have access to the DENSI projects and more via the [...]
Greetings, Blogosphere! I know many STAR Discovery Educators have been reading the DEN blogs since they (the blogs, that is) were born, but many of you may not have thoroughly investigated the archives. Now, we do our fair share of making sure the blogs are used to give you the information you need about what’s [...]
Discovery Education revolutionized education almost ten years ago by being the first company to introduce streaming educational media into America’s classrooms. Now, we are revolutionizing education again by launching a new iPad-optimized version of our streaming platform, the only educational streaming service scientifically shown to improve academic achievement. If you’re already a subscriber, you can [...]
This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from Canadian STAR Discovery Educator, Lloyd Roche on Adding Images to SMART Notebook. All Discovery Educators have access to the DENSI projects and more via the Educator Resources section. Simply [...]
Thanks so much for your interest in the DEN Virtual Conference in Atlanta, GA. Registration is now closed. Check back to the Georgia blog to learn about more great in-person events sponsored by the Georgia Leadership Council. Join thousands of educators online and in-person as the DEN team goes house to house to explore the [...]
This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from PA STAR Discovery Educator, Vicki Reed on Managing Video Projects. All Discovery Educators have access to the DENSI projects and more via the Educator Resources section. Simply search for [...]
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation just announced the launch of a new online curriculum powered by Discovery Education. Promoting ways to help young people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out – this curriculum is now available at no cost to educators at www.energybalance101.com This engaging new curriculum, jointly developed [...]
This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from Canadian STAR Discovery Educator, Sarah Thompson and Florida STAR Discovery Educator Cheryl Watford on PowerPoint, SMART and Discovery Education. Download it here. All Discovery Educators have access to the [...]
Today is Constitution Day! Did you know that according to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, “all publicly funded educational institutions [must] provide educational programming on the history of the American Constitution on [this] day.” I had no idea! But clearly somebody on our curriculum team did, because they created a Theme Page within DE streaming focusing [...]
This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from Texas STAR Discovery Educator, Mary Carole Strother. All Discovery Educators have access to the DENSI projects and more via the Educator Resources section. Simply search for DENSI2010.
Is your school starting to implement the Common Core standards? If so, fear not! Your Discovery Education services are ready. Here’s how you can easily access materials on Discovery Education that are aligned to the Common Core standards. Start by clicking Curriculum Standards Search. From there, select Common Core State Standards from the Standards Document [...]
Psst…don’t forget to listen to the sample Voki at the bottom of this post. (And Steve, 90 seconds, 1 take – I can do it.) Ad free for you and me! An interesting newsletter in my inbox offers something I have wanted for a long time, an ad-free Voki. I discovered Voki when it appeared [...]
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, [...]
Discovery Health Adventures in Parenting: A Must View! From my favorite classroom and beyond professional development resource, and a site I just love to visit because of its daily relevance, Discovery Health offers a wonderful resource for parents and educators alike, Adventures in Parenting. This site is my safety net in the classroom because everything [...]
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 [...]
This year at the DEN Summer Institute (DENSI), participants created projects to be included as professional development assets for use by Discovery Educators. Here’s one from Wisconsin STAR Discovery Educator, Karie Huttner. Discovery Educators have access to the DENSI projects and more via the Educator Resources section. Simply search for DENSI2010.
http://tinyurl.com/3a5fhem If there’s a down side to summer vacation, it would have to be its end.Whether you’ve been to Alaska, Europe, or just camped out in your own back yard, chances are you have at least a week in at school, with or without students. Some of you made life-changing decisions, added or subtracted something [...]
Mark your calendars! At 1pm ET on Monday, September 13th Danny Forster from the Science Channel’s Build It Bigger is joining us for a special webinar event “A New Way to Look at Architecture.” Danny loves architecture, from the curve of a building’s roof line to the mathematics at its foundation, and he’s excited to [...]
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