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.
For DE streaming users, did you know that you can now filter the media library for primary sources? Just go to Advanced Search in the top DE page banner and select “Include only Primary Source Titles.”
It’s great to be back in my home state, Connecticut, today for a training at Waterbury Public Schools.
I graduated from Windsor Locks High School more years ago than I care to admit on this blog and I’m thrilled to have an opportunity to work with Connecticut educators.
Today’s sessions at Henry S. Chase Elementary School will focus on Discovery Education streaming and Discovery Education Science.
In the green spirit, here are a few digital take-away resources for participants.
Don’t forget to visit the Professional Development tab after signing into DE for more great support and integration resources for DE streaming and DE Science. And, be sure to check out all the terrific resources available through the Discovery Educator Network.
I was thrilled to join Mike Bryant and Steve Dembo at the Anoka-Hennepin Day of Discovery in Minnesota earlier this week. There was so much positive energy I could practically hear bells ringing . . . okay, so maybe that was the fire alarm that forced us to evacuate the building towards the end of the day, yet this was a high-energy event and I thoroughly enjoyed working with the inspiring educators from Anoka-Hennepin.
Here are the take-away resources from my “Thinking Outside the Slide: Non-Linear Multimedia Presentations” session.
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.
VoiceThread is one of my favorite Web 2.0 applications for education and it’s a perfect partner for Discovery Education’s rich media content. I will be featuring VoiceThread during the August 25, 2009, DEN Summer School Webinar.
You can access the resources from this webinar by clicking below. The webinar archive will be available on the DEN blog.
The applications for kmlfactbook are nearly limitless. The colorful and interactive interface make it perfect content for your interactive whiteboards, tablets, and LCD projectors. Importing the KML files into Google Earth adds additional functionality and allows students to use the data to build their own Google Earth tours and data sets and allows users to layer additional data to create hypotheses and generalizations. The ability to readily access data from all geographic areas instantly allows students to compare and contrast with ease. Downloading the KML files and opening them in Google Earth allows students to create their own thematic maps. (Not sure what a thematic map entails? Check out this great Google Earth resource on Thematic Maps.)
Welcome back to the new school year! To help you get started, register for a Discovery Education streaming Back-to-School Enhancements webinar to learn about all the new benefits of Discovery Education streaming .
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It’s great to be back in my home state, Connecticut, today for a training at 
I was thrilled to join Mike Bryant and Steve Dembo at the Anoka-Hennepin Day of Discovery in Minnesota earlier this week. There was so much positive energy I could practically hear bells ringing . . . okay, so maybe that was the fire alarm that forced us to evacuate the building towards the end of the day, yet this was a high-energy event and I thoroughly enjoyed working with the inspiring educators from Anoka-Hennepin.
