You are Invited for an Exclusive Kick-Off Event of the Women’s Leadership Council at Liberty Science Center “It’s a Girl!” Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm · This is your last chance to see Lyuba, a 42,000 year-old female baby Mammoth before she leaves the continent! · Receive a private tour of [...]
Image via Wikipedi Not only were the spring breezes blowing and the sun shining on May 15, 2010, but thirty-one educators from as far away as Union, NJ, showed their willingness to spring forward in new ways to help their students “grow” when they gathered at the Apple Store in Marlton, NJ. Before 9am, NJ [...]
ONLY 8 TICKETS REMAIN for the premiere screening of Brace for Impact. If you would like to join us (DEN members from the tri-state area), leave a comment on the DEN Blog and be sure to leave your email address. What an inspirational way to start the new year We have 8 tickets [...]
Please join your NJ DEN FRIENDS (and bring your non-DEN friends as well) on Saturday, October 17 in Cherry Hill, NJ at the Best Buy in the Garden State Shopping Plaza from 8-9am. We are teaming up with Best Buy in Cherry Hill to bring you a BEST BUY event on Saturday at 8:00-9:00 at the [...]
From the NY DEN blog: Come on out and join the New York DEN Leadership Council and DEN educators from across the New York Tri-State area for a mental workout at Discovery’s NYC headquarters on Friday, February 6th as we connect with the Discovery Health Channel for a f2f meet and greet. Stretch your mind [...]
Jannita Demain just sent out notification of this unique opportunity for our students. Please note the dates- you need to act fast! “In honor of World Diabetes Day on November 14, Novo Nordisk, Discovery Health, Discovery Education, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation invite your students with type 1 diabetes, their parents and caregivers to [...]
from the Google Teacher Newsletter 9.19.2008: “The next GTA will take place on Tuesday, November 18th at our offices in New York City. The GTA is our free training program for K-12 educators. It’s an intensive, one-day event (8:30am-7:30pm) where 50 selected participants get hands-on experience with our free products and other technologies, learn about [...]
Can’t get enough of the DEN’s amazing professional development events? Good! There is still time to register for a series of two-day conferences designed to enhance your use of Discovery Education’s digital media resources. The DEN Regional Conferences (August through October) are spread out all over the country so that we can reach as many STARs as possible. [...]
A big shout out to DEN Star Stacy Kasse for the following: The U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative has opened registration for its free summer workshops. The workshops will be held across the country starting June 18 and will target specific grade levels and content areas. Dates and locations for the workshops are shown [...]
If you like the excitement of law enforcement and rescue operations, you don’t want to miss Uniformed Heroes Day at Liberty Science Center! The entire Science Center and parking lot will be sizzling with the latest in ultra cool technology, larger-than-life vehicles and amazing demonstrations all day. Bring the whole family and don’t forget your [...]
The VA DEN is going to host a Virginia Day of Discovery on June 7, 2008! The really cool thing is that you can participate from the comfort of your house as many of the sessions, including the keynotes, will be delivered via Webex. And, drum role please, we are pleased to announce that [...]
Another week, another GREAT Discovery Education Event! On Tuesday, May 20th, I had the pleasure of attending a private reception and screening for Discovery’s new show When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions’ which details 50 historic years in space.I was among the first to view archival NASA footage that has never been seen before [...]
Tomorrow night (May 30) in Philadelphia there is a special kick off reception to the Animal Planet Expo tour and Lance is looking for some STARs to join us. The reception will take place in downtown Philly from 6-8 pm and will feature Jeff Corwin. If you are interested, post a comment TODAY on the National [...]
Get ready to soar… The DEN has a limited amount of seats for a private reception and screening for Discovery’s new show When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions’ which details 50 historic years in space on Tuesday evening, May 20th. CA DEN members attended the West Coast Premier last week & said that it [...]
The following post is from one of our new STAR members, Stacy Kasse That was the question of the night posed by Captain Sig Hansen, one of the captains of the popular Discovery Network show, “Deadliest Catch” Tuesday night at the Sampson Street Oyster House. CAPTAIN Andy Hillstrand The captains mixed and mingled with guests [...]
Congrats to Stacy Kasse, Meg Griffin and Eric Strommer whose names were picked from the crab pot to attend the dinner with the captains of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch! Have fun everyone & don’t forget to share pictures with the rest of us (upload to flickr & tag DEN or Discovery Educator Network) [...]
A thousand thank yous to everyone who made the 1st Annual DEN Virtual conference such a smashing success! On a personal note, a special shout out to Bev Plein for hosting us Jersey Girls at her school in North Jersey We had a great time “sitting in” on all of the conference events together [...]
Hey NJ DEN’rs! What’s the best thing about being able to attend a virtual conference? Getting to attend in your pj’s, of course! The first annual DEN Virtual Conference is drawing near (Sat. Feb. 2 9am EST) & you can attend from Wherever wearing Whatever you want- all you need is an internet connection & [...]
First of all, it’s FREE! And, like many other events in the emerging field of online professional development, the conference will be run by VOLUNTEERS! These volunteers are educators who have decided to take hold of the reigns of professional development and become masters of their own destiny- and help provide the tools for their [...]
The NJECC Annual Conference on March 18, 2008 at Montclair State University will feature Marc Prensky as the keynote speaker. For further information on this conference, The Natives are Restless: Growing Up in a Web 2.0 World, check out the NJECC Conference site.
Does your school/district belong to the NJ Educational Computing Cooperative (NJECC)? If not, you should definately look into it. They are a great collaborative resource for the infusion of technology in education (What the DEN’s all about)! Each month, they have a “business” meeting, which also highlights a particular aspect of technolgy and education. October [...]
Thanks to everyone for making the recent Back to School Discovery Days in Lawrenceville, NJ so AWESOME!! The presenters all worked very hard to bring us exciting sessions that were inspirational as well as useful (Great Job Bev, Lance, Scott, Scott, Matt, & Shannon)! I think we can all say that we definately have at [...]
(Repost from April, 2007) Welcome Back! (Feel free to start humming the theme to Welcome Back, Kotter now, but don’t be mad at me when you’ve still got it in your head 5 hours from now!) After much anticipation, the NJ DEN is back, & will be better than ever- but only with your help! [...]
Calling all DEN members- While the DEN is hard at work blaizing trails in Web 3, many educators still don’t harness the power of Web 2 in their classrooms (& as we all know, some would even say, "I didn’t know there was a Web 1.0) Next week we are having a Days of Discovery [...]
The DEN will be in New Jersey on August 21 and 22 for two jam-packed Days of Discovery. Come learn about new ways to use media in the classroom and network with some amazing STAR Discovery Educators. And, join us for a special evening event on August 21. You don’t have to be from NJ [...]
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