DEN: Florida

If you attended the Sea World Day of Discovery, you received a trial version of Nettrekker, compliments of Danielle Abernethy and Nettrekker.  This is a valuable resource and our own DEN LC Member Tom Turner will be presenting a session on how to use Geocaching and Nettrekker at FETC this year.  If you would like to learn more about this valuable resource and how to use it in your classroom, Danielle will be conducting two webinars on Monday, November 23rd. For those of you who are out of school that week, there is an early session at 11:00am and then a second session at 4:30pm for anyone who has to work that day.  This webinar will be a how to session and should be a great learning experience.  To register for the event, click on the time for your session, either 11:00am  or  4:30pm,  and you will be connected to the registration page.   The sessions will last approximately 1 hour.

Please watch the video of our Palm Beach School Districts for the MILLIONTH stream….

Hello World!

The November 7th Sea World event was a great eye-opener!

Our group’s quest was to find out as much as we could about sharks for the day.  We spent several minutes hunting and finding the ‘Shark Den’ and once we arrived, we watched the sharks swim and took many pictures!

From there, we went back to our ‘training room’ and created a glogster page with our shark information.  We added a link to an animoto video and researched the internet for great shark information.  Continuing with the theme of sharks, we found a website that had shark games!!

Follow our teams efforts…. here we go!

http://ascienceteacher.edu.glogster.com/Dennys-DOD/

By the Way…. Denny is our ‘Mascot’ for the FL DEN Leadership Council… watch for many many more visits and theme related events with Denny!!

What a great day so far.  A group of 40 educators have gathered together for a day of discovery at Sea World.  The first task of the day was to search the park for an animal of your choice and collect waypoints and information.

Once the group returned to the classroom, they began building information about their Sea World animal and adding additional resources from Discovery to their project folder.

Check out the link to the agenda for our day of discovery.  Additional resources will be added after the event.  Thank you to everyone who helped make this a great event.  The Florida DEN Rocks!

The Florida Leadership Council is preparing for a day of discovery at Sea World on Saturday, November 7th.  We will be diving into discovery and learning how to practically apply geocaching to our classroom.  Stay tune to find out more about this exciting day!

This weekend was the Tech or Treat virtual conference.  I hope that you were able to attend a few of the sessions that were offered.  They were all excellent.  However, if you missed one of the presentations, they will archive them on the DEN site starting next week.  One that you can catch right now via prezi is Steve Dembo’s session on “Putting the Bling in the Builders”.  Here is the url: http://prezi.com/fnkmiywv3s4w/   Steve shows you how to use Blabberize and a lot of other tools that will help you take assignment builder to the next level.

Another great treat that Den has in store is set to happen next week. There are two great DEN events happening in Florida.  The first one is November 5 at Boomers in Boca Raton(https://lrougeux.wufoo.com/forms/boomers-in-boca/). The second event is being held on November 7 at Sea World in Orlando. The Sea World event may already be on wait list, but I would see if there are any spots left. To register go to : http://jotform.com/form/92785037601#http://jotform.com/form/92785037601

I hope you will enjoy the treats from Discovery and I hope to meet some of you next week at the Sea World event.

Why wait for Halloween for Treats?
Sign up for the Fall Virtual Conference!

Here are the Top Ten reasons to attend as written by Lance Rougeux.

10.  College football is overrated.

9.  The digital treats you’ll take away won’t cause cavities.

8.   You can attend in your pajamas (virtually or in-person, we’re flexible).

7.  Two full hours of the soothing sounds of Justin Karkow - Can I Help You With That?  The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director (9 AM and 3 PM ET)

6.  A chance to win a HD Flip Cam for dressing up as your favorite Discovery personality

5.  Brand new interstitials

4.  Any time Steve Dembo uses the word “bling” in a presentation, watch out! Putting the Bling in Your Builders (12 PM ET)

3.  The archived sessions just don’t have the same pizazz.

2.  Amazing professional development for the very reasonable price of…FREE.

1. Networking, networking, networking!

Why wait for Halloween for treats?  Register now!

By Cheryl Watford, Network Manager, Auburndale Senior High School, Polk County

Can you create an example for your subject area? 

For the TITLE, choose an emotion or a color that represents your Unit Topic along with a nickname. (You will not mention the subject anywhere in the writing.)

Sentence 1:  Choose one of the following…

·        While in class you stand there…..

·        When no one is watching in class….

·        In this subject, you are….

·        I sometimes think….

·        The subject faces….

·        We have learned….

Sentence 2:  Write a sentence with a color of an item in the unit topic.

Sentence 3:  Write a sentence with a part of an exam question in it.

Sentence 4:  Write a sentence with a simile (a comparison using like or as).

Sentence 5:  Write a sentence of over 25 words about the unit topic.

Sentence 6:  Write a sentence under 8 words describing one assignment.

Sentence 7: Write a sentence with a piece of clothing you may need in experiencing this topic.

Sentence 8:  Write a sentence with a wish in it, relating to the final outcome of the unit.

Sentence 9:  Write a sentence with an animal in it.

Sentence 10:  Write a sentence in which three or more words alliterate (that is, they begin with the same initial consonant: she has be left, lately, with less and less time to think).

Sentence 11:  Write a sentence with two commas.

Sentence 12:  Write a sentence with a smell and a color in it.

Sentence 13:  Write a sentence with a simile (a comparison using like or as).

Sentence 14:  Write a sentence that could carry an exclamation point (but do not use the exclamation point).

Can you do it??

My Example of a finished Science Unit – Humans vs Plants….

PEACHY-GREEN MEAT AND VEGETABLES

When no one is watching in class do they still breathe or move?

The green leaves flow and the peachy hands touch.

Transpiration begins in the roots and ends in the atmosphere.

Roots of a plant are like feet to a person.

When subject one eat and drink they gain nutrients from the food, while at the same time subject two will eat and drink to gain nutrients from the ground.

Create a model of a cell.

You need to wear gloves anytime you mess with either of the subjects in our unit.

We wish you all pass the final test, remembering all things you learn about the two subjects.

Homo-sapiens are mammals, which is a form of an animal.

Oxygen occurs over and over, not on the outside.

Did you know, did you care, did you learn?

Seeing and smelling any type of odor or white vapors means you are alive.

Veins are like highways and roads, in both of the subjects.

Learning about this ROCKS

Cheryl W 

Come join NE Florida DEN for an incredible day of Professional Development, both virtual and Face 2 Face.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009
9 AM to 2 PM ET
Cost: FREE
Location: Region 2 FDLRS/ATEN Lab -141 Ferry Road, East Palatka

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The DEN is looking for a few good gurus.  Do you have what it takes?  Do you want to be one of the fab five for the inaugural   year? Here is the nitty gritty but you can check out all the details on the DEN National Blog.

 DEN Gurus will:

• be featured as regular contributors to the National DEN blog
• present their own featured DEN webinar
• represent the DEN at a major educational conference during the year (registration and travel expenses covered by the DEN)

Timeline

Application window opens - September 30, 2009

Application deadline - November 15, 2009 (5 PM ET)

DEN Gurus Announced - December 1, 2009