Let’s face it….IF you have to go to school in the summer, then the DEN Summer School is the place to go!There are lots of ‘courses’ being offered between August 2nd and August 19th. The first week will focus on digital storytelling, where I’m certain you’ll get many great ideas to implement digital storytelling in [...]
Summer is a great time to kick back and relax. It’s also a perfect time to continue your learning. The DEN has some amazing professional development webinar series to support us this summer! Come join and keep the learning going! July 1 – July 29 This webinar series is packed full of the best instructional [...]
Posted by Brad Fountain on the DEN National Blog. What an amazing webinar with Dr. Temple Grandin last night!! Dr. Grandin provided those in attendance with an insight into what it is like to view the world as an autistic person as well as tips for teachers on how to support students with autism or [...]
Cross-posted from the DEN National Blog. On Wednesday, April 14 at 1pm EDT, Philippe Cousteau will be hosting a very special Earth Day celebration for you and your students. Philippe is the grandson of Jacques Cousteau and he will be presenting “Earth Day: Celebrating Our Past and Future Efforts to Conserve Our Oceans.” During the [...]
These are posted on the National Blog, but I wanted to make sure the California DEN got the news! Discovery Education has always had a great schedule of professional development webinars, but there are two particularly awesome sessions coming up in April. Be sure to check out: EdTechConnect with Dr. Temple Grandin Tuesday, April 13 [...]
With a sunny 72 degree day finally to arrive in PA, I could not resist posting a summer photo. It isn’t often that your avocation and vocation merge, when your passions for educating students, working with technology integration, and llamas all seamlessly come together. That convergence does not happen often, and my excitement is all [...]
If you missed the webinar on using technology to improve students’ writing skills (I did; how bad is that for an English teacher), then you have a chance to view the archive file at your leisure. Reposted from the DEN National blog. Here are the links to the videos from this webinar: Door Scene Pictures [...]
Yesterday, Hall Davidson‘s webinar’s design targeted educators. Tonight’s webinar, presented by Garth Sundem focuses on the classroom. Can I whet your math appetite? Register now and please join us tonight at 7 PM (ET). Self-professed math geek and author of Geek Logik Garth Sundem will use humor to show students how they can use math [...]
Please join us and register today! From the Siemens STEM Academy comes a great webinar Monday, March 8, 2010, at 7 PM (ET). Our very own inimical Hall Davidson is the presenter, and that alone should pack the virtual house. Here’s another reason (well, several) why you should attend this webinar (it’s not all about [...]
Love that picture! The information below is outdated, but the image of the man is spot on. Matt “Mojo” Monjan is reprising his Bend It…BreakIt…Bust It Loose ~ 10 Ways DE Streaming Will Change the Way You Teach by popular demand. You might wonder why we are covering this presentation when Patti Duncan did such [...]
Nothing, absolutely nothing, succeeds like success (well, okay, maybe money too). So it totally does not surprise me that the huge demand for Matt Monjan’s DEN PreCon at PETE&C presentation is being reprised in a webinar. See, we listen. Discovery ALWAYS does! You asked for it; you got it! Patti Duncan microblogged Matt’s presentation using [...]
Can’t get to a face to face workshop because of cost or distance?Here is the next best thing: Webinars from the pros at Discovery! We would like to invite you and your staff to learn more about the only digital video-based learning resource scientifically proven to increase student achievement. We are offering 3 New Topics [...]
Scott Kinney, Vice-President of Professional Develepment and Outreach at Discovery, opened the DEN LC New Year with a DEN Leadership Council Insider webinar, an event that Discovery will reprise monthly for whole council webinars Although these webinars are intended for DEN LCs, DEN STARS are welcome to attend as well. Lance Rougeux began by thanking [...]
Today was an all day online free conference sponsored by the DEN, focusing on transforming science classes through the use of digital media. I was not able to attend one of the many live events that occurred all around the country but I did get to attend from home. Some of the presenters were Lance Rougeux, Brad [...]
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 at: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/denscicon. About DEN SCIcon DEN SCIcon 2010 is an online conference (with a twist) focused on providing participants with some of the most effective strategies for [...]
Steve Dembo’s slides from Media Share for The New Permanent Record In partnership with Comcast from Discovery Education, this newest partnership is geared to students, teachers, and parents in Indiana, to provide great resources for this state. Available for Comcast subscribers, this service provides a web-based, online, on-demand library of DE resources of local, national, [...]
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In this very special edition of Shining STARs, tonight at 7 PM we are featuring students from the Wilkes/Discovery Education Instructional Media program, who will be sharing some of the best projects that they’ve created during their coursework. Be prepared to be dazzled! You still have time to register. Vince Hill is the Director of [...]
Just in case you missed Discovery Education’s Kick Off of their EdTechConnect Webinar Series with Chris Dede, it will be available shortly at the DEN Archives. Modern interactive media (e.g., wikis, social tagging systems, multi-player games, augmented realities) allow capturing rich streams of data about student actions while learning. Analyzing this multi-dimensional data can provide [...]
It’s not too late to sign up for the Fall Virtual Conference! Here are the Top Ten reasons to attend as written by Lance Rougeux. Saturday, October 24, 2009 9 AM to 4 PM ET Click here to register for the virtual sessions. 10. College football is overrated. 9. The digital treats you’ll take away [...]
Reposted from DEN National Blog We had a fantastic turnout yesterday for our webinar about H1N1. Over 10,000 students from around the globe participated! In case you missed it, you can view the archived version on the Ready Classroom website. Just click on Make a Plan and select H1N1 Webcast.
Sept. 23rd is the big day – the Discovery Education Streamathon. If you’re looking for more info check out the DEN National Blog.
The 2009-2010 DEN Webinar schedule is finally posted. Come see all the great DEN Webinars, product demonstrations, Science Class, EdTechConnect and more! The schedule is bound to have something for you. Be sure to check it out. The first one is this Tuesday, September 22nd.
Join us on September 23, 2009 for our annual DEN streamathon. Twelve hours of back-to-back sessions about the latest and greatest with DE streaming. Check out the schedule on the DEN blog and don’t forget to register today! *Originally Posted on the DEN Blogsite.
If you follow the DEN National Blog, you could find this information here – but you might not, so I’m sharing it again with my Wisconsin friends and those in other places. This post was originally published by the spectacular Steve Dembo. Summer School Archives We’ve been busy converting and uploading all the archives from [...]
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