Three DEN Summer Institutes and countless regional events later, my love of the DEN hasn’t faltered. There seems to be a commonality among the DEN: a passion to help others. Multiple Stars are true experts and yet are friendly, ready to start a conversation. Now there is something new to continue conversations between the face-to-face [...]
Presenting from Fredriction, New Brunswick, Canada, Dean Shareski, featured presenter and Discovery Educator Network Community Manager explores the importance and necessity of being social and the increasing blurring of professional and personal. An important question with a divided answer, Dean asks how the use of Twitter, Facebook, and blogs impact professional learning in a social [...]
Inspiration is like an unexpected gift; it meets and greets you in unsuspecting ways, energizing. So it was that I settled down with 2 romping kittens, a galumphing black Lab, and my laptop in the sun room (glorious with sun today) and morning coffee, off to troll the DEN blogs. The joys of retirement–working on [...]
Call it an idea exchange, a virtual pinboard, or a scrapbook, Pinterest has reached the Top 10 in Social Networking sites in about a month. I received a beta invite and in under an hour had an amazing number of followers. What I like about it: ease of use. It’s fast, fun, and utterly intuitive [...]
An article regarding social media in the workplace caught my eye recently and it got me thinking about the broader ramifications of social media. The article documented a study that showed that one in three grads consider salary less important than the ability to access social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in [...]
Wanted: Back to school pictures of you and your students. Bonus credit will be given if the pics include technology, Discovery, or anything really cool happening in your classroom! In return for these pictures, we are willing to offer up items from the DEN Prize Closet. What’s in there right now? All sorts of interesting [...]
Up early on Sunday morning, reading Facebook and came across a repost from a former Salisbury High School student, Mike Wohlberg. He was ahead of his time in many ways, especially good in the fine arts, and an expert in technology, media production, almost anything tech related. I learned so much from him. So I [...]
Happy new year everyone! I wanted to share three new web tools with you that were recently shared on Twitter/Plurk or Classroom 2.0 LIVE!. The first tool is Post Post shared by Lucy Gray. The following is taken from the Post Post website: PostPost is a news aggregator for the social generation, and collates the [...]
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