(Cross-posted from Clif’s Notes) Our kids and I have a lot of fun with AudioBoo. AudioBoo is a service that makes podcasting and audio blogging a snap and can positively impact your classroom (See examples 1, 2, 3 and 4). Although the service has previously pretty much been limited to iPhone users it is now [...]
This past Saturday the TN DEN LC, on conjunction with the Discovery Education Webinar Archives, presented SciCon 2010 Part Deux in Knoxville, TN. While our crowd was a little smaller than we would have had on our snow day, the enthusiasm of our participants was not diminished! We enjoyed a day of archival videos from [...]
I have been using Diigo as my preferred social bookmarking tool for some time now. You can see my links here. It appears that many DEN members also use this site to keep track of websites they find interesting or even indispensable. There is a national DEN Group that was started by Jennifer Dorman, and [...]
As you know, we recently had to cancel the live event planned for SciCon 2010 due to school closures and poor weather conditions. But, we aren’t letting that stop us from having our time of fun! We have scheduled to revisit the SciCon 2010 event in Knoxville on Saturday, January 23rd from 9 AM to [...]
One of the frustrating things about the filtering of content like YouTube in the classroom is that there is a wealth of really good, high quality educational videos on the site that are nearly impossible to use easily. Until now. OK, maybe it isn’t that simple. You need a Twitter account. Oh, and a Vidly [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010 9 AM to 4 PM ETRegister for the live event in Knoxville sponsored by our DEN Leadership Council. Click Here to Register for the Knoxville Event! DEN SCIcon 2010 is an online conference (with a twist) focused on providing participants with some of the most effective strategies for transforming their science [...]
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Festivus, the members of the Tennessee DEN Leadership Council wish you and yours a very Happy Holiday Season!
Saturday, January 9, 2010 9 AM to 4 PM ET Drop by for an hour or stay for the whole day! It’s virtual and it’s FREE! Register for the online sessions at: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/denscicon or Register for the live event in Knoxville sponsored by our DEN Leadership Council. Click here to see the list of in-person [...]
I just ran across this great site in a blog I was reading this morning. Its a framing engine for pictures you upload. Pretty simple. Upload your picture. Choose a frame. Save your picture. Wow!
If you haven’t tried WolframAlpha, you really need to head over there immediately after reading this post. The great thing about this site is its ease of finding computational data. Do you have an algebraic equation you need solved? Type it in the search box and watch the magic happen. Ask for the population of [...]
In our attempts to continue to improve the Tennessee DEN LC blog, we have added a page for Tutorials. So far, there’s only one; but we will continue to add new tutorials pretty quickly over the next couple of weeks. The first tutorials we will post will center on the Builders in DE Streaming. The [...]
The Mid-South Technology Conference (Twitter hashtag #mstc09) is over, and I am back in the classroom overseeing essays from my 7th graders today. Life returns to normal just in time for the Christmas holidays to hit. Sigh. I will take the next few days and put up some of my thoughts regarding the sessions I [...]
Day Two of the Mid-South Technology Conference is about to begin. It is another cold, but sunny, day in Memphis. I am looking forward to another great round of workshops and keynotes today. There is an interesting twist to this schedule. One strand of morning sessions are two-hour, in-depth sessions. The other strand has two, [...]
Alan November is one of those keynote speakers that rarely has a scripted plan in front of him when he gets up to speak. Rather, he tries to get a “feel” for the audience and then goes wherever karma leads him. For him, it works. He could probably stand up and just spout off random [...]
Today has been a great day in Memphis, TN! The good folks with Memphis City Schools have done a remarkable job for their first truly regional Mid-South Technology Conference here at the Memphis Convention Center. Nearly 1,000 are in attendance for technology training just a few blocks from historic Beale Street and the Peabody Hotel. [...]
We have most of our group together today in Nashville at the Spring Hill Suites to get our next year’s events together. Jen Dorman and Teryl are heading up our discussions today. Karla, Paula, Carole, Sally and Tim are trying really hard to keep up. We’d like to give a shout out to Clif Mims [...]
TETC has begun and Discovery is here with a BIG presence. Not only are we represented with some wonderful people on the exhibit floor, but Discovery Education has reserved a corporate room where there are back to back to back sessions on DE Streaming, Science, Assessment, and more. Teryl and Tim had nearly 50 people [...]
As we approach our Christmas break throughout Tennessee, your Leadership Council wanted to let you know what we have planned for January and beyond. We’ve been working on getting all our personal information loaded on the blog, and we’ve finally succeeded here. The LC has more than doubled this year, and we are excited about [...]
About the DEN’s Fall Virtual Conference Thousands of educators online and in-person congregated together, as the DEN team went house to ‘house to house’ to explore the many digital treats available to educators today. During this unique professional development event, attendees had the flexibility to attend online or in-person at one of many regional events [...]
We had a great time at Gresham Middle School this past Saturday morning. Five of our LC members were in attendance with just under 20 participants, so there was plenty of time for personal connections and one-on-one help as we worked through the DE Streaming site. Many of the teachers were on the site for [...]
The LCs around the country just received an email from Lance Rougeux explaining the prizes available to STAR Discovery Educators and State Leadership Councils. The Siemens’ “We Can Change The World” Challenge is open to K-8 teachers this year. (Don’t worry, it will be K-12 next year). Since this is a program that the vast [...]
On our last Day of Discovery in Bradley County, Discovery Education sent a video team in to shoot lots of footage and get interviews from DE Streaming users. We have all waited in great anticipation to see what the final video looked like. Well, we are waiting no more! Thanks to the video crew, Discovery [...]
Mark your football calendars! The TN DEN is conducting its Punt, Pass, Kick workshop at Gresham Middle School on Saturday, November 14, from 8:30 to 12:30! We will cover three areas of DE Streaming that morning: DE Streaming Basics Building a Better Builder Beyond the Stream (50 ways to use DE Streaming in your classroom) [...]
(Thanks to RJ Stangherlin for posting this on the Pennsylvania DEN Blog) We had a Leadership Council webinar last evening, so I would like to share some of the important reminders and information from Lance. Without a doubt, the DEN Tech or Trear Fall Virtual Conference was an astounding success. We held the same numbers [...]
While there is a wealth of information contained in the blogs here on the DEN blog site, sometimes we need to look at the bigger picture. You can find a wealth of information at the Moving Forward Wiki. There are blogs listed on every subject imaginable, both academic and others. If you know of another [...]
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