Of course, they are! And the teachers who inspire students! Just announced yesterday, during the DEN Streamathon, if you are a DEN member, you can receive a free limited edition DEN sweatshirt hoodie during the Classrooms Are Awesome campaign!
To receive this wonderful gift, upload a 1-2 minute video, podcast, or other multimedia resource of how you use DE resources in your classroom to engage students. Videos, podcasts, etc. must be received by November 15th at 8pm. EST.
Showing posts with label DE Streamathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DE Streamathon. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2009
A Day in the Life...
Sorry about the delay in my update today. It's not much of an update, unfortunately, as my allergies decided to rage again yesterday afternoon and evening and I didn't get to listen to the sessions as I'd intended.
The one session I really got to enjoy though was the Day in the Life of DE Streaming with Lance Rougeux, one of the DEN managers. His presentation was set up as if you were a student going through a day of school with DE Streaming in every class. We went from a mock setup of 7:30 in the morning down to about 2:30 in the afternoon. We started with Language Arts/English first and how to use DE Streaming with literature circles, guided reading groups, and writing prompts. More on this later.
Next we went to Math class and learned that DE Streaming also has some flash interactive games available. By using differentiation, teachers can have one group working on an activity and another group of students working at the interactive white board (iwb) with the flash activities. Lance also reminded us not to forget to use the curriculum standards when searching for resources, which is another good way to perform a search in DE Streaming.
Next we were off to Social Studies class. Lance showed us the Discovery Atlas in the teacher's center. This looks amazing, especially for Geography. Then we were shown how to take a DE Streaming video and add it to Google Earth. It's much easier than you would think. Streaming has a special new "share" button on the content pages of each video. Click on this button and copy the embed code. Then go into Google Earth, create a placemark and paste the embed code into the body of the placemark. Viola! When the students click on the placemark, they will see a link to the video.
In Science class, students would watch a video from Mythbusters and fill out a worksheet, making sure the busters followed the scientific method and steps in their experiments.
Finally, it was almost time to go, but not without homework! A new website from CDWG and Discovery Education will show teachers how to get over their fear technology. http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0 is especially for Technophobes, this website will be a guide to helping you integrate technology. So for homework, we need to try some of the strategies and report back. What do you think of this site?
I'll be bringing more later and the address with the archived sessions.
The one session I really got to enjoy though was the Day in the Life of DE Streaming with Lance Rougeux, one of the DEN managers. His presentation was set up as if you were a student going through a day of school with DE Streaming in every class. We went from a mock setup of 7:30 in the morning down to about 2:30 in the afternoon. We started with Language Arts/English first and how to use DE Streaming with literature circles, guided reading groups, and writing prompts. More on this later.
Next we went to Math class and learned that DE Streaming also has some flash interactive games available. By using differentiation, teachers can have one group working on an activity and another group of students working at the interactive white board (iwb) with the flash activities. Lance also reminded us not to forget to use the curriculum standards when searching for resources, which is another good way to perform a search in DE Streaming.
Next we were off to Social Studies class. Lance showed us the Discovery Atlas in the teacher's center. This looks amazing, especially for Geography. Then we were shown how to take a DE Streaming video and add it to Google Earth. It's much easier than you would think. Streaming has a special new "share" button on the content pages of each video. Click on this button and copy the embed code. Then go into Google Earth, create a placemark and paste the embed code into the body of the placemark. Viola! When the students click on the placemark, they will see a link to the video.
In Science class, students would watch a video from Mythbusters and fill out a worksheet, making sure the busters followed the scientific method and steps in their experiments.
Finally, it was almost time to go, but not without homework! A new website from CDWG and Discovery Education will show teachers how to get over their fear technology. http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0 is especially for Technophobes, this website will be a guide to helping you integrate technology. So for homework, we need to try some of the strategies and report back. What do you think of this site?
I'll be bringing more later and the address with the archived sessions.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
DEN Streamathon Tomorrow
The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) will be hosting the 4th annual DEN Streamathon tomorrow, a 12 hour day of Discovery and DE Streaming goodies! And again, it's FREE! 
Most of the sessions from the day will be re-broadcast tomorrow evening after school hours for those of you who can't catch it during the day. Sessions will also be archived and available soon after.
Here are the sessions I think will ones not to miss:
A Day in the Life of DE Streaming at 5pm
Back to School Changes in DE Streaming at 6pm
and The Discovery Educator Network 2009-2010 at 8 pm
Click here if you still need to register.
There will also be one hour sessions per subject area (Math, Literacy, Science, and Social Studies) on how you can use DE Streaming. I'll check back in tomorrow night after the DEN session on how everything went and the archive location.
Most of the sessions from the day will be re-broadcast tomorrow evening after school hours for those of you who can't catch it during the day. Sessions will also be archived and available soon after.
Here are the sessions I think will ones not to miss:
A Day in the Life of DE Streaming at 5pm
Back to School Changes in DE Streaming at 6pm
and The Discovery Educator Network 2009-2010 at 8 pm
Click here if you still need to register.
There will also be one hour sessions per subject area (Math, Literacy, Science, and Social Studies) on how you can use DE Streaming. I'll check back in tomorrow night after the DEN session on how everything went and the archive location.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
DEN Streamathon 09!
Good morning!
I hadn't realized it's been so long since I last posted. I am going to need to work on that! Today, I have a great opportunity for those looking for some online experience. The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is having their annual streamathon on September 23rd from 9 am - 8 pm. There's always great sessions every hour. Register here and take a look at the schedule of events:
All times Eastern
9 AM - Back to School Changes in DE streaming
10 AM - A Day in the Life with DE streaming
11 AM - Streaming the Solution: DE streaming in the Math Classroom
12 PM - Supporting 21st Century Literacy with DE streaming
1 PM - Back to School Changes in DE streaming
2 PM - Dialing in the Digital Compass: DE streaming with Social Studies
3 PM - Multimedia Einsteins: DE streaming with Science
4 PM - Homework Gone Digital
5 PM - A Day in the Life with DE streaming
6 PM - Back to School Changes in DE streaming
7 PM - Crunching the Numbers - Using the DE Admin Tools to Show Your Success
8 PM - The Discovery Educator Network 2009-2010
I hadn't realized it's been so long since I last posted. I am going to need to work on that! Today, I have a great opportunity for those looking for some online experience. The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is having their annual streamathon on September 23rd from 9 am - 8 pm. There's always great sessions every hour. Register here and take a look at the schedule of events:
All times Eastern
9 AM - Back to School Changes in DE streaming
10 AM - A Day in the Life with DE streaming
11 AM - Streaming the Solution: DE streaming in the Math Classroom
12 PM - Supporting 21st Century Literacy with DE streaming
1 PM - Back to School Changes in DE streaming
2 PM - Dialing in the Digital Compass: DE streaming with Social Studies
3 PM - Multimedia Einsteins: DE streaming with Science
4 PM - Homework Gone Digital
5 PM - A Day in the Life with DE streaming
6 PM - Back to School Changes in DE streaming
7 PM - Crunching the Numbers - Using the DE Admin Tools to Show Your Success
8 PM - The Discovery Educator Network 2009-2010
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
DE Streamathon
Today, I had the unique experience of listening in on the Discovery Education Streamathon, a day filled with professional development and training sessions for using DE streaming (formally unitedstreaming, which I still refer to it as). I multi-tasked throughout the day, as I worked on finishing to put together the Smart Airliners my school bought and working on a few other projects, like my newsletter due tomorrow-(one more article to find) and listened in on the sessions.
The best one of the day by far, was presented by Steve Dembo, who talked about using DE streaming with web 2.0 tools. I got lots of great ideas and wanted to share those with you.
The first tool Steve talked about was Speechable.com. With this website, you can grab pictures out of unitedstreaming, upload them to the website and choose different speech bubbles to add to your picture. Once you've got your bubbles in the picture, you can save it as an image file (.jpeg) and use it anywhere...blog, PowerPoint, Word, etc. I thought this could be good to use with Social Studies. Take a picture of some event in history and add facts to it. Steve mentioned another great use about unitedstreaming...the pictures can be republished...no need to worry about copyright! :)
Next up is www.bighugelabs.com-what a cool site! There are so many things you can do with pictures here. Create historical trading cards (also great idea for study guides), motivational posters, like the ones from Franklin Covey. You can also choose several features, such as photo wall, billboard maker, pocket album. As I learn more about this site, I will come up with ideas for these features. I think this was the best tool featured!
Jump Cut was next. This is basically an online version of MovieMaker or iMovie, the benefit being that students can continue to work on their videos/movies after class time. I also liked that you can record audio in audacity and incorporate it into this too!
Cueprompter.com is awesome! I need to share this with my librarian, if she doesn't read it here first, but this website allows you to copy and paste text and then change the font size and then have it appear on the computer screen as if it's a teleprompter! What a great thing for morning announcements!
MovieMasher.com was next, but I feel like it might be something to Jump Cut. Some other websites suggested was onetruemedia.com and fixmymovie.com.
The last website I was able to see was glogster.com. Another great site! This one creates digital posters! Pictures can be enlarged when rolled over on by the mouse, facts can added, as well as, links and embedded videos. Saved posters can be used on blogs and wikis. Some examples shared were: thescientificshamrock.wikispaces.com, environmentalheroes.pbwiki.com/Jane+Goodall+per+1, and ktitraci.glogster.com/election.
So much to look at, but good ideas all!
The best one of the day by far, was presented by Steve Dembo, who talked about using DE streaming with web 2.0 tools. I got lots of great ideas and wanted to share those with you.
The first tool Steve talked about was Speechable.com. With this website, you can grab pictures out of unitedstreaming, upload them to the website and choose different speech bubbles to add to your picture. Once you've got your bubbles in the picture, you can save it as an image file (.jpeg) and use it anywhere...blog, PowerPoint, Word, etc. I thought this could be good to use with Social Studies. Take a picture of some event in history and add facts to it. Steve mentioned another great use about unitedstreaming...the pictures can be republished...no need to worry about copyright! :)
Next up is www.bighugelabs.com-what a cool site! There are so many things you can do with pictures here. Create historical trading cards (also great idea for study guides), motivational posters, like the ones from Franklin Covey. You can also choose several features, such as photo wall, billboard maker, pocket album. As I learn more about this site, I will come up with ideas for these features. I think this was the best tool featured!
Jump Cut was next. This is basically an online version of MovieMaker or iMovie, the benefit being that students can continue to work on their videos/movies after class time. I also liked that you can record audio in audacity and incorporate it into this too!
Cueprompter.com is awesome! I need to share this with my librarian, if she doesn't read it here first, but this website allows you to copy and paste text and then change the font size and then have it appear on the computer screen as if it's a teleprompter! What a great thing for morning announcements!
MovieMasher.com was next, but I feel like it might be something to Jump Cut. Some other websites suggested was onetruemedia.com and fixmymovie.com.
The last website I was able to see was glogster.com. Another great site! This one creates digital posters! Pictures can be enlarged when rolled over on by the mouse, facts can added, as well as, links and embedded videos. Saved posters can be used on blogs and wikis. Some examples shared were: thescientificshamrock.wikispaces.com, environmentalheroes.pbwiki.com/Jane+Goodall+per+1, and ktitraci.glogster.com/election.
So much to look at, but good ideas all!
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