Every fall at Martin School, the third and fourth grade classrooms have a special visitor. When our principal announces that this special person is in the building and visiting certain classrooms, the students hold their breath in anticipation – hoping that he will be visiting their room. He is not a celebrity, an athlete, or famous
Discover Our Heroes
Day of Discovery Event: Discover Our Heroes (sponsored by Discovery Education and the Kansas Discovery Educator Network Leadership Council) When: Saturday, November 6th Where: Bradley Elementary School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Time: 8:30 – 2:30 Cost: FREE (lunch will be provided) Join us for a day of Discovery Education and Digital Storytelling at Bradley Elementary, located
Join DEN in Branson, Missouri
The Discovery Education Leadership Councils for Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas invite you to participate in a joint event providing face-to-face learning while enjoying the DEN Virtual Conference. The Virtual Conference event is planned for October 23rd at Branson Elementary West with a Geocache/photo walk to take place at Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery by Lake
Google Apps goes YouTube
In reading through my Google Reader subscriptions I came across a Google Docs blog posting talking about tutorial videos for several of their applications. The applications include spreadsheets, forms, documents, presentations as well as functionality within each application. Additionally, I feel there are two great features available on the Google Docs YouTube channel. The first feature is how the
Social Side of Bookmarking
Last May, Steve Dembo (@teach42 on Twitter), from Discovery Education, asked if I would be interested in participating in their Summer School 2010 webinar series. It did not take me long, maybe 30 seconds, to agree on presenting as part of the PLN Week. Steve asked if I would discuss Social Bookmarking (Social Bookmarking in Plain
Learning with the DEN
Who ever said summer school isn’t fun? Get ready for your school year with an amazing series of free professional development sessions from the Discovery Educator Network (DEN)! DEN Summer School begins August 2. Click on any of the session titles below for more information and to register. All sessions start at 11AM ET. Week
Enhancing LiveBinders
The ladies of LiveBinders, Tina and Barbara, have announced recent updates to enhance the ability of this great web 2.0 tool. The enhancements have improved searching for educational resources (education based binders), the long awaited functionality of managing uploaded files, and providing insight into the methods used to secure your LiveBinders files. Here are the
DE Produces U.S. Geography App
Attention all Discovery Education and iPhone/Touch application users – Discovery Education releases their own U.S. Geography application on June 17, 2010 for $4.99. This is a stand alone application and NOT part of the paid subscription.(Here is the information from June Newsletter)
"The Knowledge Sharing Place"
“To Be or Not To Be…..That is the question.” In this case, are we educators organized with our resources and lessons or do they look like this desk? If not, permit me to introduce LiveBinders. LiveBinders is your virtual 3-ring binder to get organzied. In learning about this fantastic Web2.0 tool I was fortunate to
New Tool for Word Clouds
Here is a new tool created by the makers of Wordle. Tagxedo turns words — famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters — into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. With Tagxedo, you can: make tag clouds