Leonardo DaVinci’s Workshop - Free Premiere

Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity

for DEN Educators!

Presenting Leonardo DaVinci’s Workshop

A Free Premiere for DEN Educators.

Discovery Times Square Exposition

226 West 44th Street

Monday, Nov. 30th from 4 - 10p for a Free Preview of
this World Premier Exhibit!
Plus, book your class field trip and receive:
• Discounted student tickets just $14
• 1 Free Chaperone ticket with every 10 student tickets
• Free teachers guide including comprehensive

Click here for the invitation.  Bring the invitation and your educator id.

The Celebration of Teaching and Learning

picture-den.jpg The fifth annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning is coming back to Manhattan. This amazing two day conference, run by Channel 13 for tri-state area teachers, has top speakers, amazing presentations, wonderful workshops, and incredible sponsors.  This is the conference that got me started on my journey into educational technology.  Although an expensive conference, it is well worth the money.  Save the date: March 5 - 6, 2010. Click here to find out more about the conference.  Also check out the Chase Multimedia in the Classroom Award.  Let’s get some DEN people winning!

SPECIAL STUDENT GROUP OFFERS FOR DISCOVERY EDUCATORS!

Discovery is pleased to extend educators a special offer for your student groups to the Discovery Times Square Exposition in NYC now featuring Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition and Da Vinci’s Workshop: Inventor, Artist, Dreamer.

- Student Tickets just $14 plus receive 1 free chaperon ticket with every 10 tickets purchased
- Free downloadable teachers guides including comprehensive lesson plans correlated to the state academic content standards
- Customized on-site activities for post-exhibit add-ons available for all grade levels
- Excellent teaching opportunity for History, Social Studies, Language, Arts, Math and Science.

DA VINCI’S WORKSHOP: Inventor, Artist, Dreamer    

Inspire a whole new generation of genius in this all-new exhibition which brings Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions to life with full scale, interactive models. Find out how Da Vinci’s vision for an airplane, automobile and bridge would have worked – long before they became the modern worlds’ reality. Plus, uncover the translations and hidden meanings of the masterminds’ paintings, sketches and notebooks through virtual and interactive touch-screen panels. Discover the mind of a genius in this limited, world premier engagement. Nov. 20, 2009 - Apr. 4, 2010

TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition

This educational exhibition allows your students to discover how the “unsinkable” Ship met its fate. Connect with passengers and crew through haunting personal stories and real artifacts recovered from the wreck site. Your group will explore magnificent re-creations of the Ship’s interiors, including passenger cabins and the renowned Grand Staircase. View never-before-seen treasures and the largest collection of Titanic artifacts ever assembled. Now through Feb. 28, 2010

For more information or to make your reservation, visit www.DiscoveryTSX.com  or call 866.9.NYCTIX

DEN Tech or Treat

It’s not too late to sign up for the Fall Virtual Conference!

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

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Saturday, October 24, 2009
9 AM to 4 PM ET

Click here to register for the virtual sessions.

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!

For the schedule and more information, visit: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/virtcon09.

National Geographic Student Summit

“What if your students could experience the nation’s capital through the eyes of a National Geographic explorer, scientist, or photojournalist? They might capture the character of the city through a camera’s lens or interview a park ranger and get his perspective on preserving our national monuments.”

Middle School and High School classes have an opportunity to take an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. with National Geographic. Find out more here.

NNYLN Choices/Challenges

The Northern New York Library Network is hosting a 2009 Conference: “Choices & Challenges” on October 5 and 6, 2009 at the Cheel Center, Clarkson University, Potsdam. The special pricing for all attendees is $40.00 for the entire conference, or $25.00 per day.

There are sessions about Digitization, gaming, and Digitizing History.  To find out more, go to the NNYLN website.

Western Suffolk BOCES - Day of Discovery - October 6th

Attention Long Island and NYC educators!  Mark your calendars!  Western Suffolk BOCES will be hosting a Day of Discovery on October 6, 2009! Please see the attached PDF for more details on the sessions and how you can register for this event!

Western Suffolk BOCES - Day of Discovery PDF

The World of Socialnomics.

Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics. How do you think this impacts teaching and learning in the 21st Century?

Summer School Archives

*Originally Written and Posted on the DEN blog by Steve Dembo

We’ve been busy converting and uploading all the archives from our incredible Summer School webinar series. While we still have quite a few to go, nearly half the webinars have been posted and are ready for you to download and share them with others!

As they get converted, we’re posting them here, so check it out and let us know what you thought of the series!

NYC Area Cricket Crawl

Are you going to be in the city on Friday, September 11th?  It is the perfect opportunity to join the Cricket and KatyDid crawl.  Check out the specifics found on the Living the Scientific Life Blog.

As the blog explains, “The Cricket and Katydid Crawl of New York City and surrounding areas is a citizen science project in which participants will venture out between dusk and midnight to locations of their choosing throughout the NYC metro area to listen for the calls of crickets and katydids and document their observations.”

Enjoy this fun activity with your class, your family, other DEN members.  And don’t forget to blog about it.

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