California DEN

1. Uses of Smart Phones~Alice Mercer

1. Photograph your students
2. Video your students doing something great!
3. Sync your calendar/s
4. Configure all your email accounts
5. Use EverNote to stay organized

2. Using Photostory but Don’t Forget the Citations~Diana Kenney

• Download PhotoStory
• Create and organize folder for images obtained from DE Streaming
• Copy image Description and Citation~Paste into word processing program
• Create a black slide using PowerPoint or other presentation software.
• Save slide as .jpg
• Add black image to the end of PhotoStory. Copy all citations to this slide. Change font color to white. Voila~ your sources are cited!
• Create PS DVD’s  with Sonic Software
• KnightCite Citation Service
  

3. Blabbarize with Sarah Johangiry and Kerri Campbell

Due to maintenance on the Blabberize site Sarah and Kerri  used their quick- thinking teacher skills and used a short YouTube tutorial to introduce the audience to this F-U-N teaching tool and attention getting ed-tech tool.

4. Wallwisher~Roxanne Clement & Bev Mathieson

Wallwisher is an online notice board maker and collaboration tool! Check out how Roxanne is using this innovative tool with her 2nd grade students to find out what they want to know about penguins!

5.  Animoto~Jeremy Davis

• Animoto~Catch your student’s attention by creating fun, yet educational videos simply by uploading your images and/or short video clips to Animoto.
• Go to Jeremy’s wiki site to embed many web 2.0 tools.
• Select the Animoto tab in the navigation bar to see examples of using Animoto for educational purposes.
• Add “catchy tunes” to your project to peak your student’s interest-  I personally liked the comedic touch he used by using the Johnny Cash song, Ring of Fire for his Animoto film on volcanoes! Remember, don’t go swimming in a lava river!

6.  GlogsterEDU~Katie Warren

EDU Glogster is an interactive poster creator. Get 100 free student accounts. Check out how to create a Glogster in 90 seconds.

7. Drop.io~Genny Kahlweiss

Drop.io isn’t simply a digital dropbox, it also allows you to leave voice recorded messages from your cell phone! Imagine, not having to type out instructions for your assignment! You can leave a voice message that will instantly post to Drop.io that all your students can listen to. Check out Jenny’s Drop.io  account for examples on how to use this with your class.

***Last, but not least,  Jen Wagner, new DEN STAR for 2 weeks 5 days and 4 hours!

Check out Jen’s creative project site for educators and their students from PreK-6.

The Discovery Education Team is at CUE, rocking out in the Palm Springs USD building across the street!  Come check us out - great stuff being shared.

Steve Dembo is speaking right now about Top 10 Web 2.0 sites for Educators - I’m going to do my best to jot down all the sites he shows so that others can reference it.

http://crappygraphs.com/ - easy to create graphs, no data required

http://www.wallwisher.com/ - personal message wall, peeps can leave sticky notes for you

http://delicious.com/ - social bookmarking site, you can retrieve your bookmarks from anywhere (don’t have to be on same browser), also search other delicious user bookmarks

http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com - awesome

http://www.ipadio.com - mobile podcasting

http://edu.glogster.com/ - virtual posters, graphic blogs (Edgar Allan Poe example at http://lindsaykhopkins.edu.glogster.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe/)

http://www.animoto.com/education - create rockin’ videos using images and video, great resource for free source music

http://www.wordle.net - create word clouds using any piece of text

http://www.wordsift.com/ - create interactive word cloud, can reorder words by subject, etc.

Networking, hands-on sessions, presentations, great food, door prizes, and best of all, fun - who can beat it?  Be sure to register today - early bird deadline has been extended until March 8!  Here are the details:

SGVCUE Tech Fair
Saturday, May 1, 2010
8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Village@Indian Hill Conference Center
1460 E. Holt Avenue, Pomona
All the info at http://www.sgvcue.org/events/techfair2010.html

Join the masters students from Discovery Education Wilkes University Instructional Media Program to hear Daniel Pink talk about his new book, DRIVE.

When: February 16, 2010

Time:  6:00 p.m. PST

Go to the last page of the slide presentation to join the Elluminate session on1/16/10.

An hour with Dan Pink

View more presentations or Upload your own.

We know many of our DEN members are already using Glogster’s EDU site in their classrooms, and for those who haven’t had a chance to sign up yet, now is the time!  Glogster just announced that after February 28, it will be limiting its free accounts to 100 students per teacher, compared to the 200 students currently allowed.

So, sign up for a free account before February 28 to get all 200 student student accounts!

Glogster is a medium for virtual expression using video, text, graphics, images, music, and sounds.  Click here for a peek at a sample Glog that uses Discovery Education resources.  Blog readers, if you’re using Glogster, comment on this post and let folks know what you like about it and how you’re using it in your classrooms!

You loved it last year, you asked for it again this year: we’re going BIG at Boomers!

Friday night of CUE, we’re invading Boomers!  Feel like a kid again as you’re treated to unlimited go-karts, bumper boats, mini-golf, and dinner!

RSVP at https://discoveryed.wufoo.com/forms/den-cue-2010-event-boomers/

Buses will leave at 6:30 PM from the Renaissance Hotel and loop from the park to the hotel throughout the evening.  If you feel like driving, here are the details:

March 5, 2010
7 PM - 9:30 PM
Boomers! Fun Park
67700 East Palm Canyon Drive
Cathedral City, CA

All are welcome - bring a friend that should be part of the DEN!

Click to read all about what’s coming up for the California DEN, including a DEN Photowalk in Southern California this weekend, as well as all the details for where to find Discovery Education and the DEN at CUE.  Don’t forget to RSVP for the fun night at Boomers!

View the newsletter at http://links.discoveryeducation.com/feb2010CaliforniaDEN

Join the Discovery Education team and DEN Members for a morning of photography, networking, and fun, all while adding more resources to the DEN library of media!

DEN STARs Dennis Grice and Ken Shelton will be on hand to lead us on a photowalk. We’ll wander the pier and the marina catching a myriad of activities around the beach and harbor on camera.

Along the way attendees will be given photo tasks. Together we’ll learn different photography tips and tricks from each other as we enjoy the area and see things through a different lens.

After the walk, we’ll head over to Panera Bread to share our photos and upload the best of the best to the DEN MediaShare.

When: Saturday, February 6, 2010
Where: Balboa Pier (map), then
Panera Bread
235 East 17th Street
Costa Mesa, California 92627 (map)

Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Cost: We’ll provide the food and drinks, you pay for parking at the pier

RSVP at https://discoveryed.wufoo.com/forms/balboa-pier-den-photowalk/

Call for entries!  All K-12 schools educators from Los Angeles County are invited to submit their best classroom instructional technology projects to the 2010 Digital Voice Awards.

The California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) Region 11 and Multimedia Services of the Instructional Technology Outreach division at the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) invite K-12 school educators from Los Angeles County to submit exemplary classroom instructional technology projects to the Digital Voice Awards.

Entries must be received by Wednesday, March 31, 2010.  For resources on how to get started and more, visit http://ito.lacoe.edu/dva/

Looking for inspiration for your instructional technology project?  From video, images, audio, and more, Discovery Education has all the media you need, and Discovery Educator Network STARs have lots of ideas to share!  Comment on this post to start a virtual brainstorm!

Do you guys know about the great classes the Orange County Department of Education is offering?  They have a ton of sessions on everything from Grant Writing to Digital Storytelling to Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom, just to name a few.  They also happen to be offering some great, in-depth, in-person classes on Discovery Education streaming at their training center.

Check out the complete calendar of classes at http://register.ocde.us/events/, and read below for the Discovery Education streaming class announcement.

The Orange County Department of Education is offering in-depth, engaging courses in the use of Discovery Education streaming.  There are courses that will start you from the beginning and take you into building online assignments, exploring project based learning and being part of a phenomenal network.  Below is a sampling of the courses and dates.

Classes are being added all the time so be sure to stop by http://register.ocde.us (Administrators & Faculty > Discovery Streaming) or contact Randy Kolset at rkolset@ocde.us to find more courses that will help you harness the full potential of Discovery Education streaming.

Discovery Education streaming - An Introduction
Wednesday 2/3/2010    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Learn the basics to all this interactive web based program has to offer. Create classroom quizzes that are instantly graded, access thousands of videos, images, MP3s, and create Assignments that are web-based to support your classroom curriculum.

Discovery Education streaming - Building Online Assignments
Wednesday 2/10/2010    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Unleash the full potential of your subscription to Discovery Education streaming by creating online assignments that will support your curriculum in the classroom. Find out how to connect online quizzes, videos and documents to capture your students interest.

Discovery Education streaming and Project Based Learning
Friday 2/12/2010    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Discover innovative ways to integrate the Discovery Education streaming content into your social studies or science course. Bring your account login information and be ready to become a power user. Incorporate the best methods for utilizing the resources in your classroom. Take away tips and tricks to get the most out of your subscription. These skills will apply to whatever computer you are using.