Dorman’s Trouvailles

For those of you who are administrators for Discovery Education in your school or district it really important to know that the old unitedstreaming Administrator Website is going to be discontinued effective Nov. 30, 2009.  DE admins will now be able to access an enhanced tool set and reporting features through the new My Admin – located within the Discovery Education services hub.

Click here to download a PDF My Admin users guide.

Take a look at the following tutorial to learn more.

You can also register to attend one of our My Admin webinars.  Click here to register.

What makes Discovery Education’s 21st century classroom solution different?

Listen to a special message from Lance Rougeux, the Director of the Discovery Educator Network.

Hear more about the difference the DEN makes from some of our STAR Discovery Educators.

I’m at the Eastern Shore Professional Development Conference being hosted at the Worcester Technical High School in Newark, Maryland, today.   I will be presenting both a keynote and follow-up concurrent session.  Here are the resources from both.

Professional Learning Networks 2.0 – Keynote

Developing Digital Leaders – Power Up Your Professional Learning Network – Concurrent Session

Professional Learning Networks – Wiki Resources

I used Google Earth often when I was in the classroom. I used it to reinforce geographic literacy and engage my high school social studies students with a colorful and interactive data visualization. Today, I’ll be presenting “Two Roundtrip Tickets to Anywhere with Discovery Education and Google Earth” as part of the DEN Summer School webinar series.

Click below to access the resources from this session. The webinar archive will be available on the DEN blog.

Two Roundtrip Tickets to Anywhere with Discovery Education and Google Earth

Google Earth Users Guide

Google Tools for Schools: Google Earth

Google Earth KMZ – Samples 

Google Lit Trips

KMLFactBook (blog post about KMLFactBook)

Get ready for a new school year with the DEN!  Tell a colleague, invite your principal and join us for Summer School with the DEN.  Enroll today at: http://community.discoveryeducation.com/webinar.

All sessions begin at 11 AM ET.

These sessions are recorded and the presentation resources and archives will be made available at: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/summer-school

Web 2.0 Week
8/24/09
Get Your Glog On! The DE streaming Builders and Glogster
8/25/09
The Thread that Ties it All Together: Discovery Education Content and Voicethread
8/26/09
Two Roundtrip Tickets to Anywhere in the World: Designing Virtual Field Trips with Discovery Education Media and Google Earth
8/27/09
Learning Through the Funnies: Mixing Discovery Education Content with Free Comic Tools

I’m looking to put together the ultimate playlist for DEN events and I need your help. Please think of some great songs and complete the form below. Click here to access the published version of the playlist.

Image Citation:
Music Note Character. . 2009.
Discovery Education. 17 August 2009
<http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>

I’m in Erie, Pennsylvania, for the 3CsETC. I’m excited to have the opportunity to meet so many from my PLN.

What is 3CsETC?

The 3Cs ETC Conference is a collaborative effort between NPAECT, IU5, CFF Coaches and the LEARN Initiative. The conference name was created using 3Cs (Connect, Communicate, Collaborate), which NPAECT has used as their day-conference theme in the spring and fall of 2008 combined with ETC (Educational Technology Conference) which was added to 3Cs as the conference joined forces with CFF and LEARN.

NPAECT, LEARN and CFF and IU5 separately were working toward the same goal of assisting teachers in changing their teaching practices using technology as an integral part of their curriculum, so this collaboration made perfect sense.

One goal of 3Cs ETC is to provide quality professional development and training and to host engaging and motivating keynote speakers, conference presenters, and hands-on learning opportunities to educators in the northwest Pennsylvania region. Our second goal is to develop a vibrant professional learning community of 21st century teachers who recognize the rapid changes in our world that demand changes in our classroom instruction and who are willing to invest in a vastly different educational system that still focuses on challenging our students to succeed.

Here are my presentation resources for my keynote and concurrent sessions. You can access more conference resources on the 3CsETC website and Ning network.

Power Up Your Professional Learning Network – Keynote
Presentation
Resources

Creating Online Class Communities – Concurrent Session
Presentation

Learning 2.0 – Engaging 21st Century Learners – Concurrent Session
Presentation

Thinking Outside the Slide: Non Linear Multimedia Presentations – Concurrent Session
Presentation

Thanks to everyone who participated in the DEN National Institute (face to face AND virtually).  The NI was a tremendous success and everyone learned so much.  You might say that we built bridges to connect ourselves with other members of the DEN as well as to best practices with digital media and instructional technology.  (pardon the obvious pun . . . considering that the NI met in CA practically in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge)

Our leave-taking on Friday afternoon was bittersweet as everyone forged strong relationships with each other.  If my Facebook, Twitter, and Plurk friend requests are any gauge, I am not the only person who felt the power of the DEN community.

Here are some resources that I’ve aggregated for the NI.  You’ll want to check National Institute 2009 page on the DEN National Blog for more resources as they are posted.

Discovery Education Flickr Photos – DENNI tags

DENNI Twitter Hashtags

DENNI Great Links and Ideas – Google Spreadsheet

Diigo Discovery Education Network – DENNI tags

Delicious – DENNI tags

DENNI CoverItLive

DENNI ustream sessions

Here is the link to the resources for my presentations at the DEN NI.

Welcome to the DEN National Institute 2009 at the Headlands Institute in Sausalito, California.

Here are the presentation resources for my breakout sessions.

Director’s Cut – Digital Storytelling with Photo Story and Movie Maker

Digital Storytelling 2.0 with Web 2.0

Google Tools for Schools

Cover It Live and ustream

Vlogging with DE MediaShare 

Discovery Education MediaShare Users Guide