Welcome to Spotlight on Strategies Challenge! Our S.O.S series provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating DE media into your curriculum. Make it Concrete PDF Version Background The idea of Concrete and/or Shape poems has been utilized in classrooms for years. This week’s strategy puts a twist on the concept by using it as an [...]
Welcome to Spotlight on Strategies Challenge! Our S.O.S series provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating DE media into your curriculum. Vocabulary Stepping Stones PDF Version Background Thanks to DEN STAR Susan Bowdoin from APS for showing me the great article ‘Using Video and Film in the Classroom’ from Reading.org where I am borrowing this [...]
Welcome to Spotlight on Strategies Challenge! Our S.O.S series provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating DE media into your curriculum. Get a Clue PDF Version Background “All human experience is context dependent…. many investigators in reading education have stressed the importance of readers’ use of context in interpreting an verifying the meaning of words [...]
Welcome to Spotlight on Strategies Challenge! Our S.O.S series provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating DE media into your curriculum. Quick Writes PDF Version Background Often times the sight of a blank white page is daunting to students who are not confident in their writing skills. Quick writes are a simple literacy strategy used [...]
Welcome to Spotlight on Strategies Challenge! Our S.O.S series provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating DE media into your curriculum. Journals PDF Version Background Carol Ann Tomlinson shared, “There is ample evidence that students are more successful in school and find it more satisfying if they are taught in ways that are responsive to [...]
Ever wonder what great educational APP you should check out for your class?!? Welcome to the Spotlight Series on fantastic apps from Discovery Educators! Featuring this week’s app: Nearpod Handout with Tips and Tricks Description: Nearpod is an interactive presentation tool. The presentation is controlled by the presenter, keeping iPad users focused and [...]
I love Haiku Deck and as I was designing our school video, I realized that Haiku Deck could provide something that iMovie couldn’t. As you watch the video, you will realize that I took the picture of the beginning of the video to use in the Haiku Deck. Here are the steps of the Haiku [...]
“Connecting educators to their greatest resource….each other.” That’s the core principle under which the Discovery Educator Network operates. The great thing is you never know what or how those connections are facilitated. This past week I was in Vancouver and have been impressed over the past while at the burgeoning online community of passionate, thoughtful educators [...]
Last week I was in Churchill for the first week of the Polar Bears International® (PBI) Tundra Connections webcasts. This week, Kyle Schutt, who works closely on our STEM programs like Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, is on Tundra Buggy One moderating the webcasts with a fantastic group of scientists. This week the focus of the [...]
The Polar Bears International® Tundra Connections webcasts start today. Join us to learn from leading scientists while polar bears roam around outside. To support your discussions about these webcasts, Patti Duncan has put together an amazing wiki with lessons (K-12) that correspond to the webcasts. Check it out at: http://depbitundraconnections.wikispaces.com See you later today! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 [...]
Thanks to an email heads-up from Porter Palmer, I was able to view the live webcast from the Polar Bear’s International camp in the tundra. Two Discovery Educators, Karen Ogen and Tammy Einerson, were among the participants who hosted the webcast at 3:30 ET. They spoke of their awesome experiences so far which included sightings of [...]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live among polar bears, spending your days studying and learning about these awesome creatures? DEN members Karen Ogen and Tammy Einarson are doing just that. Thanks to Discovery Education and Polar Bears International, both received scholarships to attend the Polar Bears International Leadership Camp, in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. [...]
Are you interested in taking your students to the tundra to observe polar bears? Is that slightly out of your field trip budget? Well, no worries. We have once again joined forces with our friends at Polar Bears International® (PBI) to bring four incredible virtual field trips live to your desktop. Through PBI’s Tundra Connections® you’re invited [...]
In just six weeks I will leaving on an amazing adventure to learn about polar bears in their natural habitat. Thanks to Discovery Education and Polar Bears International, Tammy Einarson and I were the recipients of this wonderful trip. We will be spending a week with zookeepers and other educators on a tundra buggy outside of Churchill, Canada [...]
Our amazing friends at Polar Bears International offered two full scholarships to active members of the DEN community to attend their Leadership Camp in October 2012. Applicants were asked to create an original video that answers: “If selected as a DEN Ambassador how will you bring your experience at Polar Bears International Leadership Camp in [...]
Seriously. The title of the post is real. If you are a STAR Discovery Educator, in good standing, active, polished, full of DEN-thusiasm and all that stuff, pay attention. Our amazing friends at Polar Bears International have offered two full scholarships to active members of the DEN community (i.e., STAR Discovery Educators) to attend their [...]
Here are just a few of the great ideas presented at the Social Learning Summit Today. DEN – Media Tips and Tricks You Can Use in Your Classroom Tomorrow 1. Using QR codes in the classroom resources: www. igoogle.com and www.qrvoice.net Use the QR code cut out and have it in the back of a [...]
Join thousands of educators online and in-person as the DEN team goes virtual with Classroom 2.0 for the Social Learning Summit. Colorado will be joining the The Social Learning Summit from 3 different sites on Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 9am-1pm. Metro Area-6th Avenue Elementary, 560 Vaughn St., Aurora CO 80011 South-Clear Sky Elementary School [...]
Congratulations to Linda Epps from Orange Middle School in Orange, NJ who was selected from hundreds of STAR educators who participated in the February promotion!! Linda will be receiving her very own iPad 2 from Discovery Education. It’s not too late! During March we will have the second part of our STAR Techbook Promotion and another [...]
NC DEN is presenting an in-person Sci Con event. Don’t miss out. Sign up today! Dr. James Z. Zhang, Interim Dean of the The Kimmel School at Western Carolina University, and Dr. Chip Ferguson, Interim Department Head for the Engineering and Technology Department welcome Discovery Educators to their campus to hold this years [...]
Verona Area School District Students Collaborate with Others Around the World, Submitted by Rita A. Mortenson Since the start of the school year, the 3rd graders in Ms. Karie Huttner’s class and the high school students in Ms. Julie Jenewein’s, class along with Ms. Rita Mortenson, have been busy making music, videos and skyping (video chatting) [...]
Dr. James Z. Zhang, Interim Dean of the The Kimmel School at Western Carolina University, and Dr. Chip Ferguson, Interim Department Head for the Engineering and Technology Department welcome Discovery Educators to their campus to hold this years SciCon Event. They will also provide a tour of their Engineering and Technology facility. Don’t miss [...]
South Carolina DEN LC members Karen Ogen and Norma Rockwell will be presenting technology tips for the classroom at the South Carolina ETV Technology Workshops July 26-28, 2011. Registration is still available through South Carolina ETV StreamlineSC Norma will share Skype for Educators. “Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere [...]
Yesterday, Google debuted Chrome OS, their operating system for computers. Chrome OS is based on the Chrome browser. Your apps are available from the Chrome Web Store. There are already a lot of apps available. You will have the ability to work offline also. What I like about Chrome OS is that this is a very lightweight [...]
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