Mary Carole Strother:
· ebooks for ekids 02-10-2010 TCEA Presentation - 50 Minute session #100527
Elaine Plybon:
· Thursday, 02/10: Getting Started in Second Life - TCEA 90 minute workshop 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. session #100081
· Friday, 02/11: Discovery Streaming Exploration: Discovering What We Already Have! - TCEA 3 hour workshop 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. #100127
Linda Rush:
· Photo Productions and Creation on Wed. 2/9 TCEA from 12-3 p.m. session #100761
· iPods are Educational on Wed. 2/9 TCEA from 8-9:30 a.m. session #90618
· SMART Lessons for Primary Classrooms on Thurs. 2/10 TCEA from 8-11 a.m. session # 100759
· Digital Storytelling on Thurs. 2/10 TCEA from 2-3:30 p.m. session #1000538
Beth Weeks
· 2/11/10 at 8:00am Making Waves with Technology TCEA - this is about our summer technology Camp
· Assisting on a presentation on 2/11/10 TCEA at 3:30 Stream Live Video and Announcements to web for Free
Lea Anne Daughrity
· October 28, 2009 Region 4 Technology Apps Conference, Bringing Kinder Art to Life Literally
Join thousands of educators online and in-person as the DEN team goes house to house to explore the many digital treats available to educators today. During this unique professional development event you have the flexibility to attend online or in-person at one of many regional events hosted by the DEN Leadership Councils.
The day will feature special presentations from Justin Karkow and Steve Dembo along with a host of other great sessions guaranteed to satisfy your digital sweet tooth.
Quickly, go to: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/virtcon09
Have you spent hours creating your PowerPoint presentation just the way you wanted to only have to use it on a different PC that did not have the same version or different fonts?
If you have Adobe Pro or a different PDF converter you can save your PowerPoint as a PDF. However, if you do not have either of those you can still save as a PDF. Go to the Save As option and select Find Add-ins for other file formats. Click on the Install and use the Save as PDF or XPS add-in from Microsoft option. You will have a link where you can install the add-in. Once the add-in you will have the option to Save-As PDF or XPS.
Once you have your PowerPoint saved as a PDF you can open it on any PC that has Adobe Reader. Select View, Full Screen (Ctrl + L) and you can view just like a Power Point slide show. Granted you will not have animation or slide transitions, but you will have the correct fonts, colors, and themes.
September 23, 2009 is the annual DEN streamathon. Twelve hours of back-to-back sessions about the latest and greatest with DE streaming. Check out the schedule on the DEN blog and don’t forget to register today!
Join us on Wednesday, September 23, 2009
for a day’s worth of DE streaming!
The 2009-2010 DEN Webinar schedule is ready and there are many great professional development opportunities and product demonstrations coming up.Discovery Education also has a very special series in October featuring the STAR Discovery Educators who attended the Discovery Student Adventure Pilot Trips. Bring your students to learn about the five themes of Geography as you explore these three countries. South Africa - Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 1 PM ETChina - Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 1 PM ETAustralia - Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 1 PM ET
Welcome back to school everyone! This is starting to look like one of the more exciting years yet with the Texas DEN. Please keep coming back to the blog this year as we will be keeping it more current throughout the year with the help of several Leadership Council Bloggers. Stay with us as we share new resources, DEN news, and event announcements.
New STARS
Please welcome new Texas DEN STARS that have joined during this summer. Give a big TX DEN Howdy to: Senyda Elizondo (Pharr), Ana Centeno (Glenn Heights), Pam Donze (Flower Mound), Angela Conrad (Kingwood), Linda Cross (Tuscola), and Sylvia Basaldu (Corpus Christi).
New Event: Texas DEN Photo Walk 2009
The TX DEN Leadership Council is organizing a great opportunity for the amateur and dangerously talented teacher photographers in the state. On September 12th, several cities will have small groups of teachers enjoy a Photo Walk, where the group will travel together taking pictures that support the day’s theme. Each city will gather afterwards for lunch and select their three favorite photos of the morning with each winner getting a prize that day. For more fun, each site will upload their top three photos for a state-wide contest with bigger prizes for the top three photos.
The event is free and open to all in the Texas DEN. Come back soon for more registration details, but keep the morning of the September 12th open!
Happy New (Academic) Year!
From all of us on the Texas Leadership Council, we hope you have a fantastic and successful year.
(Okay, start humming in the background now… “Take Me Out To The Ballpark..”)
Hey, it’s still summertime and Discovery Education is bringing more fun to Texas! I’ve been a part of numerous Discovery Institutes and Days of Discovery and none of them failed to deliver on the promise of great professional development. Account Manager Justin Karkow is providing another opportunity for learning about how to deliver creative ways to engage student with digital media.
It all happens on Saturday, July 25 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. Participants will learn new tips and tricks for using some favorite technology tools in the classroom as well as see some of the new changes with Discovery Streaming. There will be a lunch served and the day ends with fun and prizes!
I’ve yet to attend a Day of Discovery that didn’t fill up quickly, so register soon to get your place reserved!
When: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Where: Minute Maid Park, 501 Crawford St, Houston, Texas
Time: 8:30 – 3:30 (followed by an opportunity to attend batting practice)
Cost: FREE! (does not include parking or admission to the game afterward)
Join us at A Day At The Park With Discovery Education!
Registrations link: https://discoveryed.wufoo.com/forms/a-day-at-the-park-with-discovery-education/
(..you can continue humming as you fill out the registration form.. 
Day At The Park.pdf
I’m still very bummed about not getting to go to the DEN LC Institute this year or the Pre-Conference. (We’re training here all week.) I fully expect the DENsters to post lots of Tweets and Blog posts about these events so that we can all continue to benefit from such gatherings of educational technology leaders! But, I do have my suitcase out and am excited about meeting up with DENsters from across the country during NECC 2009.
The National Educational Computing Conference is in it’s 30th year and will be gathering in Washington DC starting this weekend. Many teachers, IT support staff, administrators and gurus will hit the conference ready to share and learn from each other. I thought it may be a good time to share some links that may make the preparations a little more easy. Or, if you won’t be going, some links to help keep you connected to the events and learning opportunities from the premier technology conference.
http://www.isteconnects.org/ The home of the 30th Annual National Educational Computing Conference with current info links, social network links, and the planning tool links. Click over to the NECC09 pages where you can see the program and the conference planner tool (http://tinyurl.com/lkb8wu).
http://www.neccning.org/ The Ning is already popping! There are tons of posts already from presenters and attendees alike. What a great way to get ideas for what to do while there or a nice connection to learn from others who are there.
http://twitter.com/isteconnects And for the Twitter crowd, 140 characters of updates from the NECC crowd. Use the hashtag, #NECC09 to get your tweets included in the flow.
http://wunderground.com And why not include a quick look at the weather via wunderground.com? It’s really one of my favorite sites for looking at weather in the classroom. When you have a good 20 or more minutes to kill, click through to their WunderMap. SO many options for looking at live weather data.
Have fun with these NECC tools whether you get to go or not. If you are there, look for other DENsters. They are almost always a good bunch to learn with. Have fun and safe travels!
I went to a workshop Tuesday on creating media libraries using DE, the assignment builder, and other online resources to support curriculum. We were encouraged to find video, audio, articles, etc in DE that fit a particular subject, then add websites, gather them all in an assignment builder item, and post link. The libraries built this way could then be posted as links say on a wiki for teachers and students to use.
What ideas might you have for libraries built this way? What subjects would you want to see?
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