Kyle Schutt wrote a post last month on ‘Are Your Students Safe Online?’ sharing about the new Intel © Security Digital Safety Program: Think Before You Link. Not to be biased (OK, well maybe just a little!), but any time Discovery Education partners with another organization I know I need to take a closer look.
If You Give a DEN Guru (Tim Childers) an iPad…
Please join me in giving Tim Childers a warm DEN welcome! My name is Tim Childers. I am an Assistant Principal at the L&N STEM Academy, a STEM Magnet school, in the Knox County School District of Knoxville, TN. I’ve been a DEN member for as long as I can remember, and a DEN Star
If You Give a DEN Guru (Nancy Sharoff) an iPad…
Once upon a time, many, many moons ago on a couch in a hotel lobby outside of Boston during a gathering of the Second Life Leadership Council a wise man (Steve Dembo) shared his latest gadget with me. “Behold”, Steve said as he reverently handed over the iPad to me. “Touch and be prepared to
DEN Summer Institute – THANK YOU!!!
Let’s face it, gather over 100 educators, stir in some DEN-tastic professional development and you have the makings of a fairly AWESOME week. It’s taken me a while to process the tips and tricks I picked up from my colleagues (and I’m still finding notes hidden in various iPad apps!). The purpose of this post
ThingLink – Make Your Images Interactive
Do you like to make your images interactive? Would you like to do so very, very easily? Some of you may have come across a ‘fairly’ new web application recently called ThingLink but don’t just read the homepage, head on over to the Gallery to REALLY get a feel for what this application can do! (It
Leap Year, Leap Here — Let’s Leap Together!
Image Source: Flickr.com Shareski I think, no, I KNOW, it was a Dean Shareski image — the leaping family taken around the world. I can remember at the time how awesome that was and what a wonderful memory those photographs were going to be for his children when they grew up (and for Dean when
One of Our Own – Published Author: New York’s Lisa Parisi
That’s right! Lisa Parisi (DEN STAR – NY) has had a book published by ISTE titled, ‘Making Connections with Blogging: Authentic Learning for Today’s Classroom’ with co-author Brian Crosby. The expected publication date is May 20, 2012, but if you head on over to the link you can pre-order it. I had a chance to
It’s a Wrap! ‘No Tricks, Just Treats’
I don’t know about you, but I had a blast sharing out my bag of treats at the DEN Virtual Conference on Saturday, October 22, 2011. I locked myself in my daughter’s room (having sent my husband and German Shepherd on a 2 hour errand) surrounded by my MacBook, my laptop, my iPad, the iPevo
Looking for ‘Treats’…
Image Source: Flickr.com janineomg I’m SUPER PSYCHED to be part of the Virtual Conference this year. I’ll be presenting at 10 a.m. (EST), so set those alarm clocks! My session is titled, ‘No Tricks, Just Treats’ and I’ll be featuring goodies from my tech bag. And since one of DEN’s mottos is, ‘We Are Our
New York GeoCaching Day CANCELLED
Please note that the GeoCaching Day at Locust Grove for May 21 has been cancelled.