28 May 2010
Spotlight on the Gulf Spill with Philippe Cousteau
Spotlight on the Gulf Spill,
How it Affects Us Now and in the Future.
Questions, Answers and More Uncertainty.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
1:00PM ET
Join Philippe Cousteau, grandson of the legendary Jacques Cousteau and Discovery Education Chief Spokesperson for Environmental Education, as he takes you and your students to the Gulf through pictures and stories from his recent trip to evaluate the effects of the Gulf Oil Spill.
He will discuss the effects on regional wildlife and ecosystems as well as focus on how the oil spill will affect us now and into the future.
26 May 2010
Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 05/25/2010
20 May 2010
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15 May 2010
Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 05/14/2010
Test out your CSS code here before embedding it in your wiki or website.
SLOOH - Your Live Online Observatory
Explore Space LIVE!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
14 May 2010
Register Today for the DEN Pre-Conference at ISTE 2010
Are you going to the ISTE conference this year? It’s June 27- 30 in Denver, CO and sure to inspire your teaching!
I promise, you’ll also want to show up a day early for the pre-conference. Join us for a day of networking, creativity, and connections at the Denver Zoo on June 26. This day will provide ISTE attendees and area educators with an exciting and enriching day of professional development focused on creative ways to engage your students using digital media and technology.
We’ll make the most of our zoo setting, and we’ll also work with curriculum and contemporary media specialist, Dr. Lodge McCammon in a special workshop.
Space is limited, so register today!
Attend the SMART/Discovery Education Content Creation Seminar (ISTE 2010)
Are you coming to ISTE 2010 in Denver? Do you love using your Discovery Education content on your SMARTBoard? Would you like to help create MORE for yourself and for others?
Attend the SMART/Discovery Education Content Creation Seminar!!
Discover how to create professional, interactive and sharable SMART Notebook™ software lesson activities built from the award winning Discovery Education service on Sunday June 27 from 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM in beautiful Denver, Colorado.
SMART and Discovery is offering this seminar to SMART Exemplary Educators and to Discovery Education Network educators who are enthusiastic about designing lesson activities to increase student engagement and participation. You’ll have the opportunity to enhance your ability to use both Discovery’s and SMART products in your classroom and create content that you can share with other educators around the country.
You’ll learn tips and tricks for using SMART Notebook software’s interactive design and delivery tools and the Lesson Activity Toolkit. Experts from SMART and Discovery will be on hand throughout the seminar to guide and assist you in your lesson creation.
There is NO FEE to attend, but you must RSVP by June 20 to secure your spot. No more than 100 total participants will be accepted. If you are currently a user of both technologies, or if you only use one but wanted to learn more about the other, this opportunity is for you.
When: Sunday, June 27
Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Light Breakfast and lunch will be provided
Location: Room 607 (Street Level), Colorado Convention Center
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DEN 3.0 is Here!!
If you participated in our Spring Virtual Conference or our Teacher Appreciation Week, then you already know that change was in the air. Well, today we go live! The next generation of the DEN community website is up and we couldn’t be more thrilled. It features an all new look and feel, designed to keep you abreast of what’s going on around the DEN. From webinar archives, a brand new hotbox, STARs in the news and the DEN on Twitter, it’s your one stop shop for what’s going on around the DEN.
We also have a brand new forum system that we think you’re going to love. Stop by and say hello and let us know what you think of the new site!
13 May 2010
Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 05/12/2010
Design & Make A Book With Our Simple Free Guide | Bookemon.com
Great website for teaching media literacy.
"Who is responsible for the ad?
What is the ad actually saying?
What does the ad want me to do?"Create Your Own Comic | Marvel Super Hero Squad | The Official Web Site
draw.to — Draw something and share it!
Draw anything you like and share it instantly via email, instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook and more!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
10 May 2010
Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 05/09/2010
gmapcatcher - Project Hosting on Google Code
GMapCatcher is an offline maps viewer. It downloads tiles automatically from many providers such as: CloudMade, OpenStreetMap, Yahoo Maps, Google Map. It displays them using a custom GUI. User can view the maps while offline. GMapCatcher doesn't depend on google-map's java scripts so it should work even if google changes them. It also provides a downloading tool.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
09 May 2010
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04 May 2010
Classroom Resources for the Haiti Earthquake
It's considered one of the worst natural disasters to hit the Western Hemisphere, but many students still don't have a comprehensive understanding of what happened in Haiti earlier this year. The USGS has some great resources and Google has created some excellent data layers viewable in Google Maps and Google Earth. Google News Timeline is a great way to visualize how the media responded to catastrophe. And, don't forget that you can view your traditional Google Search results in Wonder Wheel and Timeline view to create a more visually striking data set.
Discovery Education has created a classroom resource to with lesson plans and engaging media to help teachers bring the world into their classrooms. Click here to visit the Haiti Earthquake Discovery Education classroom extension.
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Discovery Education has created a classroom resource to with lesson plans and engaging media to help teachers bring the world into their classrooms. Click here to visit the Haiti Earthquake Discovery Education classroom extension.
New Discovery Education Partnership Targets Childhood Obesity
The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF) announced today an unprecedented, innovative alliance with leading media companies Discovery Education and Meredith Corporation to help parents, educators, and children address the problem of childhood obesity.
The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation will promote ways to help people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out. It focuses on three critical areas – the marketplace, the workplace and schools. Click here to learn more about the HWCF's initiatives and programs.
The comprehensive student engagement program presented by HWCF and Discovery Education at www.energybalance101.com leverages Discovery Education’s communications expertise and demonstrated ability to provide educators with useful tools to help their students.
Both www.energybalance101.com and www.parents.com/hwfc will reinforce the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” initiative to combat the childhood obesity epidemic.
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The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation will promote ways to help people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out. It focuses on three critical areas – the marketplace, the workplace and schools. Click here to learn more about the HWCF's initiatives and programs.
The comprehensive student engagement program presented by HWCF and Discovery Education at www.energybalance101.com leverages Discovery Education’s communications expertise and demonstrated ability to provide educators with useful tools to help their students.
Both www.energybalance101.com and www.parents.com/hwfc will reinforce the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” initiative to combat the childhood obesity epidemic.
Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 05/03/2010
MyVRSpot is the most innovative way to connect true Web 2.0 with curriculum content, combining elements similar to the online publishing of YouTube and the personal space of Facebook. MyVRSpot provides students with a hosted web space (webspot) to upload their videos, audio files, and pictures, all while exploring in the District's "safe backyard." All media is controlled and monitored before going online for others to view. This allows for students to still become those "push button" publishers without the district having to worry about inappropriate content within a multimedia sharing environment. With MyVRSpot, students become researchers, developers, and producers of their own webspot, giving them the sense of ownership.
"Link TV is launching ViewChange.org — a digital media hub that highlights progress in reducing hunger, poverty, and disease in developing nations. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ViewChange.org combines powerful video stories with the latest Web technology to make videos, articles, blogs, and actions readily available to key audiences working in global development. "
SenseBot - semantic search engine that finds sense on the Web
SenseBot (Beta) is a semantic search engine that generates a text summary of multiple Web pages on the topic of your search query. It uses text mining and multidocument summarization to extract sense from Web pages and present it to the user in a coherent manner. A "Semantic Cloud" of concepts is displayed above the summary, allowing to steer the focus of the results.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
03 May 2010
Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week with the DEN
Are you a Discovery Educator Network STAR? If so, you NEED to check out the DEN blog every day this week for some exciting announcements, give-aways, and exclusive opportunities for DEN STARs.
Need more convincing? How about a FREE Prezi Pro account? Our friends at Prezi have very generously agreed to provide all STAR Discovery Educators with a free Educator Pro account for a year (normally $59).
And, that is just the beginning. Visit the DEN blog every day for new opportunities.
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