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I didn’t know there was such a critter as the sea butterfly? Or that in 40 years seafood would be off the menu. How about underwater gardening? All of this and more can be viewed on the Discovery Show “Wild Pacific”. Not only is it filled with facts and critters you have never heard of, […]
Posted on August 21st, 2009 by Robin Martin
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10 things you can do to become a GREENER Teacher
Blackle.com instead of Google.com, black background on the search page. Blackle also has games. Does Blackle really save energy?
Green resources from DiscoveryStreaming. There is a documentary about the tornado that hit Greensburg, Kansas narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. This is how the town rebuilt with environmental impact […]
Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Robin Martin
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Many DEN groups are using the FREE web application, Wufoo.com for event registrations, gathering information about who is coming to an event. You may use it for short contests as well, “Send the answer to this question in the next 24 hours…”
After you log in you will see a list of forms that have been […]
Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Robin Martin
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You can use the funnies or comics for a timeline, historical figures, instructions, dialogue punctuation, character analysis, plot analysis, storytelling, pre-writing tool, post-reading tool, and teaching concepts. After a field trip to the zoo where kids take photos of turkeys, create point of view about Thanksgiving. Also teachers have used it for creating digital citizenship, […]
Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Robin Martin
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Patti uses wikis with her classes and kids are paired with others from class and must complete all conversations online through the discussion boards. All rubrics are on the wiki as are the handouts for kids to print on their own after they lose the first one they are given. You can also lock the […]
Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Robin Martin
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Media Share at the DiscoveryEducation will be found through the Educator Resources tab. MediaShare is a digital media management server; a place to organize internal documents, files, forms, a publishing platform, internal memos, and/or presentations.
This would be nice for presentations and workshops so that all pieces are bundled together on one page and you don’t […]
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Robin Martin
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Did you know:
“From 1948 to 2008 NBC, ABC, CBS broadcast more than one million hours of programming. In the past 6 months, individuals posted more than a million hours of original video on YouTube alone-more than the networks broadcast in the previous 60 years combined”
The above quote from ISTE magazine Learning & Leading with Technology […]
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Robin Martin
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