Aug 24

flywithyourstudentsneenedayofdiscovery8-24-10.jpgOn August 24, 2010 an exciting day was provided to New York area educators. Back-To-School Day of Discovery at Cablevision’s Headquarters in Bethpage, NY was a partnership between Discovery Education, Cablevision Power to Learn, The Science Channel HD, and MSG Varsity. Steve Dembo was the keynote. Several of the NY DEN Leadership Council were on hand and/or presented.

During the day’s festivities, I presented two sessions Fly with Your Students – Discovery Education and Google Earth. You may be interested in the following resources created for the event:

 

It was such a pleasure to connect the dots with so many interested educators.  Considering this event was held in the summer I am impressed with the turn out.  As always a learned a great deal from listening to Steve Dembo (@teach42).  I had listened to him present on the same topic before but every time you walk away with something new. I love that no two Dembo presentations are exactly the same.  I strive to be a snowflake educator.  It will be one of my goals this year.  To as the actress Mo’Nique said last night “be a work of art” not a “piece of work”.  I hope to help the staff that I work with to use Google Earth to engage learners more this year.

I am grateful for my interactions with the DEN.  Thank you for helping me to grow my PLN.  I look forward to all the new tools I have to bring to my work in a few weeks.

Special thank you to the kind participant who took some photos of me presenting.   Usually the members of the New York DEN Leadership Council take turns photographing each other during presentations for the archive.  Unfortunately those NYDENLC members present were all involved in activities today.

Jul 15

BLC10Alan November hosts a terrific workshop, Building Learing Communities otherwise known as “BLC10″.  Discovery Education is providing those attending the Leadership Symposium with the opportunity to attend a portion of the proceedings.  I am thrilled to be here. Thanks Discovery!  Between today and the coming days I hope to blog about my experiences.

Michael LambertI just attended a stimulating session with Michael Lambert from Concordia International School in Shanghai, PRC.  He discussed the use of digital media with students. He presented several samples of videos, photographs, poster creations, drawings, mind maps and more.  He periodically tossed out website suggestions that he utilizes and suggestions from the crowd.  You can find my notes in Google Docs here.

I had a great vantage point for this morning’s keynote.  Testing out a new flipcam as part of a pilot project.  Hopefully the quality captured will be worth sharing after rendering.  The keynote was presented by Dr. Michael Wesch, Kansas State University.

Time to get back to #BLC10…

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