The 5th annual Discovery Education Streamathon is September 14, 2010. We’ve got a full day of information-packed sessions on how to integrate DE streaming and the newest online technologies used by today’s media-savvy students into classroom instruction.

Here’s the schedule. Come for an hour or spend the entire day with us! (All times are eastern time. If you miss a session, we’ll archive as many as we can and post them here after the Streamathon.)

9:00 – 9:45 AM Back-to-School with DE streaming

9:45-10:00 AM DEN in Ten

10:00-10:45 AM 25 Free things in 45 minutes or less

10:45-11:00 AM DEN in Ten

11:00-11:45 AM DE streaming Spotlight: Teacher Center and the Builders

11:45-12:00 PM DEN in Ten

12:00-12:45 PM The Student Experience with DE streaming

12:45-1:00 PM DEN in Ten

1:00-1:45 PM Back-to-School with DE streaming

1:45-2:00 PM DEN in Ten

2:00-2:45 PM 25 Free things in 45 minutes or less

2:45-3:00 PM DEN in Ten

3:00-3:45 PM DE streaming Spotlight: Teacher Center and the Builders

3:45-4:00 PM DEN in Ten

4:00-4:45 PM The Student Experience with DE streaming

4:45-5:00 PM DEN in Ten

5:00-5:45 PM Back-to-School with DE streaming

5:45-6:00 PM DEN in Ten

6:00-6:45 PM 25 Free things in 45 minutes or less

6:45-7:00 PM DEN in Ten

Register here: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/streamathon2010

Earth Day turns 40 on April 22, 2010.

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.

Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability. Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.

Here are some great resources to use with students to engage them in hands-on activities and critical discussions about their world.

The first is a ShareTabs page with links out to 13 environmental calculators to track energy and resource consumption.

Discovery Education and its partners collaborated to put together a great environmental resource, Think Green Classroom. The Earth Day resources and activities feature contains terrific tools for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Discovery Education and the Siemens STEM Academy partnered to bring a special webinar to students and teachers. If you missed the STEM Connect Webinar featuring Philippe Cousteau, Earth Day: Celebrating our Past and Future Efforts to Conserve our Oceans, you can catch the archive and classroom activity on the STEM Connect webinar page. Don’t forget to check out the student challenges and activities sponsored by Philippe’s EarthEcho International.

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Connect the Thoughts!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
9 AM to 4 PM ET
Cost?  FREE
Register today! All times ET.

9 AM
Connections, Conversations, and Collaborations: Creating a Personal Learning Network That Works For You
Lee Kolbert, DEN Guru, Palm Beach County, FL

Thanks to the influx of social tools on the Internet, educators are becoming increasingly empowered to control their learning environment.  We are no longer limited by the physical proximity of colleagues to discuss issues and develop professionally since the wisdom of the masses is as close as a computer.  Social networks, such as the Discovery Educator Network, can be synchronous or asynchronous and allow us to connect with each other.  In this session, we will explore the DEN, as well as, Twitter, FaceBook, Ning and other online tools where you can reach out to connect and build your own Personal Learning Network, tailored to your needs.

10 AM
Homework Gone Digital
Matt Monjan, Discovery Education, Silver Spring, MD

Learn how to differentiate your instruction and connect with your students using the Discovery Education Student Center.  We’ll start by creating quizzes, assignments and writing prompts using the Builders in DE streaming.  Then we’ll create a classroom and show you how to assign content to your students.

11 AM
When You’re Not the Smartest Person in the Room
Dean Shareski, Digital Learning Consultant, Prairie South School Division, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada

The moment you bring an internet connection into the classroom, you open up you and your students to a vast world of knowledge, possibilities and connections. Many teachers are beginning to realize this but are struggling to make it a reality. This session will explore  and reflect on the current barriers that prevent teachers from reaching out and more importantly provide reasons and examples that clearly make the case that everyone needs to be a networked learner.

12 PM
Cell Phones, Internet and Oprah:  How the US Presence in Iraq Has Affected Women’s Lives
Christina Asquith, Author of “Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq”

What do Muslim women think about America? Journalist Christina Asquith spent five years living and reporting in the Middle East. For her new book, Sisters in War, Asquith lived in the Baghdad home of two Iraqi sisters, visited the beauty salons, attended women-only weddings and hid from suicide bombers cruising the neighborhood.  She will describe how life changed for Iraqi women, for better and worse, after the US invasion of 2003, and explain how restrictive Islamic traditions for women are being challenged by the arrival of cell-phones, internet and Oprah.

1 PM
Connecting Language Learners to the Curriculum through Digital Media
Lindsay Hopkins, Discovery Education, Los Angeles, CA

2 PM
Rock OUR World!
Carol Anne McGuire, STAR Discovery Educator, Anaheim, CA

Is global collaboration an educational reality?  Or just a buzzword?  See how K-12 students have rocked
their world by solving real problems while composing music, making movies and learning about each
other in live video conferences.  What a great time to be an educator!  The walls of the classroom are
coming down!  Learn how to bring the world to YOUR students!

3 PM
DEN in Ten
Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education, Mechanicsburg, PA

The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a global community of educators passionate about teaching in the 21st century.  In this session we’ll explore all of the benefits the DEN offers and take a look at the many events planned for 2010.  If you aren’t part of the DEN yet we’ll show you how to join the community.  If you are part of the DEN, we promise this session will show you a few things you didn’t know about the DEN.

To advance a new generation of education technology leaders, Discovery Education, renowned for its quality content and digital media services in over half of all US schools, and Wilkes University, a leader in graduate education, have teamed up to create the online Master of Science degree in Instructional Media.To thrive in the 21st century classroom, successful educators are embracing a new approach to teacher instruction. New tools. New technologies. A new appreciation for digital media. From Web 2.0 to digital storytelling, to virtual field trips, the 21st century classroom has the power to engage and inspire today’s tech savvy students. This degree provides teachers the tools, knowledge and strategies to be successful 21st century educators.

Learn about the program from our amazing course designers, check out student projects, and more at our brand new website: www.discoveryeducation.com/masters

Every Tuesday educators enrolled in the Discovery Education Wilkes University Instructional Media Program get together to share ideas. Join them on February 16, 2010 as they have Daniel Pink, author ofDrive and A Whole New Mind, dropping by for an hour-long discussion. All the details can be found here.  Click here to join the webinar.

An hour with Dan Pink

View more presentations or Upload your own.

Click here to follow WUIM on Twitter stay up-to-date on the Wilkes University Instructional Media Program and subscribe to the WUIM blog.

Welcome to IU15 for the Discovery Education and Web 2.0 Integration workshop.

About Jennifer Dorman – Discovery Educator Network Manager, Discovery Education

IU15 Discovery Education Workshop Agenda

Click here to take the post-workshop survey.

Take-Away Resources

Discovery Educator Network

Discovery Education streaming -  Links to service overviews, demonstrations, and efficacy research

Discovery Education streaming Getting Started Guide

Discovery Education Science – Links to service overviews, demonstrations, and student access and assessment information

Discovery Education Science Getting Started Guide

Discovery Education Health – Links to service overviews, resources, and efficacy research

Discovery Education Classroom Resources -  Links to free resources, sponsorships, and competitions

• Puzzlemaker
• Lesson Plans
  
• Siemen’s STEM Academy
• Web 2010
• CDW-G Conquering Technophobia (Web 2.0 in Education)
• ReadyZone H1N1 – Continuity of Learning
• Ready Classroom – Emergency Preparedness
• ThinkGreen Classroom
• New Teacher Survival Guide
• Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
• Curriculum Center
• Brain Boosters
• Worksheets to Go
• Learning Adventures
• NASA at 50
• Understanding Epilepsy
• Discovering Diabetes
• Parent Corner
• Discovery Student Adventures
• Scotch Science Fair
• Siemen’s Science Day
• Siemen’s We Can Change the World Challenge
• USADA True Sport Award Program
• Fuel Our Future Now – STEM resources, Dash+, and Automotive Xprize

Web 2.0 Applications

• SlideShare
• VoiceThread (pricing page – upgrade to educator status)
• Glogster
• Wikispaces
• Google Docs
• Animoto
• Blabberize
• Go Animate!
• timetoast
• ShareTabs
• Wordle
• WordSift
• GreatSummary
• Zamzar
• Vidly
• QuietTube

Tutorials and Learning Resources

• Glogster
• VoiceThread
• Diigo
• Google Tools (Docs, Earth, Maps, Calendar, Reader, etc.)
• Digital Storytelling
• Digital Storytelling with Web 2.0 
• Blogging
• Podcasting
• Wikis
• Digital Learning Networks
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Project Based Learning (Challenge Based Learning) / Why Teach With Project Based Learning? / EL Project-Based Learning / BIE PBL
• Discovery Education – My Admin
• Discovery Education -My Classrooms
• Discovery Education – The Builders
• Widgets for the DE Builders 

Presentation Tools

Video Tools

Mobile Tools

Image Tools

Community Tools

The Best of the Rest

Access the Exploring Discovery Education Tutorials within Professional Development (accessible after logging in)

Access the new STEM Connect resources as well as Discovery Calendar, Discovery Interactive Atlas, ReadyZone Continuity of Learning, Lesson Plan Library, and Thematic Focus Library within the Teacher Center.

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.

Thinking Outside the Slide

Embedding Video Into PPT 97/2003

Embedding Video Into PPT 2007

The Eastern Tennessee Day of Discovery hosted by Bradley County Schools at Lake Forest Middle School was a phenomenal event.  It was presented in coordination with the DEN Fall Virtual Conference, Tech or Treat.

Tim Childers, the TN Leadership Council Blog Chair, posted a terrific summary of the event on the TN blog along with an engaging Animoto video that perfectly encapsulated the positive energy that infused the day.

Here are the take-away resources from the day.

Beyond the Stream – Integration Strategies for DE streaming

50 Ways and Beyond!  

Build a Bigger Builder

Widgets for Your Builders

DI with DE

Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast? 

Thinking Outside the Slide

Embedding Video Into PPT 97/2003

Embedding Video Into PPT 2007

About the DEN – Become a STAR

DE streaming Getting Started

(don’t forget to visit the DE streaming tutorials in Professional Development > Exploring Discovery Education streaming)

DE Assessment Overview

Promethean Planet

The 2009 Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, hosted by the Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education, and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), is now open for entries.  In addition, the challenge has expanded to include elementary school students as well as middle school students this year.  The deadline for elementary level entries is January 31, 2010, and the deadline for middle school entries is March 15, 2010.  The goal of the challenge is to encourage K-8 students to design replicable solutions to environmental issues in their classrooms, schools and communities.

Recently, the grand prize winning team from the inaugural year of the challenge, Team Dead Weight from West Branch, Iowa, presented their project to an audience of peers, UN representatives and media.  View this video to learn more about the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge and Team Dead Weight: http://bit.ly/noUP7.

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
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