As you may know, the Discovery Communications headquarters are in Silver Spring, Maryland, only a few miles away from the White House. Yesterday wasn’t your typical day at the office, as Discovery was treated to a brief, but very special visit by the space shuttle Discovery! At 9:45AM Tuesday April 17th, the shuttle passed by [...]

Are you ready to keep that STAR status in shape? DEN Spring Training is just the thing to help. Between now and May 17, you can earn Spring Training Points when you hit a single, double, triple, or home run. Fill out my online form. // Now, get to it! You have until May 17th [...]

On Tuesday I participated in one of the most amazing Discovery events I have ever had the pleasure to be a part of called Say Yes to the Prom. The whole event started weeks ago with a company-wide email calling for Discovery employees to donate their dresses.  There were 400 amazing, beautiful, and elegant dresses [...]

OK, so a couple of more sessions are behind me. One was a dud, the other was pretty awesome. I Tweeted during the awesome one. You can always follow my Tweets at @DENprincess, but I’ll also share with you here about the session “Technology and the Inclusive Classroom: A Natural Fit” presented by Tracy Amerman [...]

This week, I am attending the annual conference of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). You may not know it, but I taught special education my entire classroom career. I started working in the field while I was still in high school and have had a passion for disabilities advocacy ever since. CEC is THE [...]

Georgia DEN Social Learning Summit/Virt Con Register here to  join us at the TELLUS science museum at I-75 Exit 293, Cartersville, Georgia as we collaborate and experience the Discovery Spring Virtual Social Learning Summit with colleagues who share our enthusiasm. Learn also about the DEN and what we have to offer to those of like [...]

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world TED.com–  http://www.ted.com/ “TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in [...]

Do you want to have an active role in shaping the DEN? Do you like to blog or share what you’ve learned on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest? Does hosting an event for area colleagues or mentoring new STARs sound fun to you? YES?!?! Well then, being on the DEN Leadership Council [...]

Join us for the Discovery Educator Network Virtual Conference! Social Learning Summit Saturday, April 21, 2012  Muskego High School Muskego, WI      8:00 AM to 1 PM The Discovery Educator Network is mixing it up a little this spring and trying something different. Instead of the typical Spring Virtual Conference, the DEN has partnered [...]

Several MA DEN members, along with some invited colleagues, were treated to a special event on April 10th.  We gathered at Peter’s  Blue Bunny Bookstore in Dedham, MA, to chat about his work, his journey, and his passion for all people, young or old, to “make their mark.”  We also talked about technology and his [...]

We had a wonderful afternoon at Champion High School in Brockton!   Twelve teachers got together for a Glogster workshop and the room was a buzz with creative juices!  As always Discovery was a big part of this event!  Teachers were amazed with what they could do to present student work and research in such [...]

Fellow DEN Star, LC Chair, and DEN Guru Cheryl Lykowski had this to share about edcamp Detroit and Discovery Education. We wanted to take a moment and thank Discovery Education for their amazing support of Edcamp Detroit. Discovery Education has been leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large [...]

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from some of the DEN’s best and brightest. 12 DEN Guru finalists have been selected and are presenting April 23, 24, and 25 for a panel of judges and you! We hope you’ll join us. Monday 4/23, 6-8pm EDT (Register here.) 6pm- David Andrade “Differentiation in Science [...]

Even the greatest athletes in the world acknowledge the need for learning from others, having a coach and mentor to help them refine their game. As educators, it is our job to model life long learning.  It never ceases to amaze me how much I can still learn about digital integration strategies from simple conversations [...]

The DEN March Madness event is over and LiveBinders has been voted the favorite tool for use with Discovery Education media.  In a fairly lopsided vote, LiveBinders defeated Animoto in the final round.  There were almost 600 votes cast is this year’s tourney – thanks to all who voted.  Keep in mind, regardless of the [...]

Did you know that DE streaming videos are available in a variety of file formats? You can choose what format you’d like to stream and/or download in, according to your preferences! Say for example you have a SMART Board, in which you can natively insert FLV (Flash) files, you can easily choose Flash as your [...]

This past week, nearly 650 educators from around Wisconsin attended the Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association Conference held at the Wisconsin Dells. Two instructors from Verona Area High School teamed up and presented innovative ways to use Discovery content on the iPad. MS. Julie Jenewein and Ms. Rita Mortenson, WI STAR DEN members, from [...]

Block asks the question, “How are we going to be when we gather together?”   This is a crucial question.  My answer is that adults need to intentionally develop abilities for thinking interdependently.  We must actively deploy these skills to effectively work, listen and think with each other.  It is our shared responsibility to engage with [...]

This spring, Discovery Education Assessment will host several workshops and school visits with various school districts across the country. Some of the events are targeted towards teachers, while others are targeted toward administrators. These events are held in partner schools and feature professional development sessions as well as prize giveaways and a ton of fun. We [...]

The NCAA basketball tournament has reached the Final Four – and so has the DEN March Madness.  Hopefully, you’ve been following the DEN brackets and voting for your favorite.  Whether or not your favorites have advanced or not, it’s time to vote again and see who advances to the final round. The Final Four match-ups [...]

On March 16th the night before St. Patrick’s Day in Palm Springs California, the CA LC DEN hosted a DEN Learning Carnival.  The wonderful DEN event took place at the California State Computer Using Educator’s Conference.  Educators were invited to attend an evening full of fun with eight different learning stations to experience.  Attendees could [...]

 DEAF Educational Access for Computational Science Are you looking for STEM resources to engage hearing impaired students? The Shodor Education Foundation has what you need to support all of your students in STEM curriculum content. Click here to view the Deaf Educational Access For Computational Science  (DEAF CS) website. Here you can view ASL annotated [...]

Featured Distinguished Presenter from Discovery Education and Director of Social Media and Online Presence, Steve Dembo explored The Power of Glass Schools leading with Marc Prensky‘s term, digital natives. Defining them as multi-taskers preferring graphics before text, nonlinear learners functioning best when networked, preferring games to serious work, Steve asked what does a tribe of [...]

At the recent New England Day of Discovery, I briefly met Greg Limperis from Lawrence. He has a lot to offer the DEN community, so I was thrilled to learn that he became a DEN Star. Thank you, Greg, for sharing a little about yourself, your experiences, and your interests. Greg writes: My name is [...]

Have you ever spent more than 5 minutes resizing and cropping an image to the “JUST RIGHT” size for your website or other location?  I know that I have and I also know that many teachers get caught up in this task just to have their image become distorted by the height and width dimensions. [...]

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A while back I got the opportunity to go on a tour of the U.S. Capitol building. This was not the average tour, it was a tour of the dome and the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building. This was one of the photographs that I walked away with. This was taken at almost the top of the capitol building and as high as we could go!!

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