DEN Spring Virtual Conference Tomorrow

The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is once again offering their Spring virtual conference tomorrow from 9 am - 4 pm.  All sessions are free and jam packed full of great ideas!  You can register here.

Here's the schedule:

9 AM
Connections, Conversations, and Collaborations: Creating a Personal Learning Network That Works For You
Lee Kolbert, DEN Guru, Palm Beach County, FL

10 AM
Homework Gone Digital
Matt Monjan, Discovery Education, Silver Spring, MD

11 AM
When You’re Not the Smartest Person in the Room
Dean Shareski, Digital Learning Consultant, Prairie South School Division, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada

12 PM
Cell Phones, Internet and Oprah: How the US Presence in Iraq Has Affected Women’s Lives
Christina Asquith, Author of “Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq”

1 PM
Connecting Language Learners to the Curriculum through Digital Media
Lindsay Hopkins, Discovery Education, Los Angeles, CA

2 PM
Rock OUR World!
Carol Anne McGuire, STAR Discovery Educator, Anaheim, CA

3 PM
DEN in Ten
Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education, Mechanicsburg, PA

See more details on each session here.

DEN "Trick or Treat" Virtual Conference

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DEN's Fall Virtual Conference takes place on October 24, from 9am - 4pm.  I've been participating for two years now and really enjoy the information I receive.  In total there are 7 one hour sessions full of information.  I encourage you to try this FREE and easy way to grow your professional development network and learn about some FREE ideas to use in your classroom. 

One of the ideas I've learned about from past DEN experiences is adding web 2.0 tools to DE Streaming, which I then came up with the idea of using these tools with Schoolfusion.  I've also learned how to change closed captioning on DE Streaming videos and how to insert DE Streaming videos into Google Earth.  The list could on. Okay...I know it's a Saturday, but take one hour and try one session.  Here's a suggestion: Try the 11 a.m. session on "Thinking Outside the Slide".  This sounds like a session on PowerPoint and I'm sure will include some tricks on how to better use PowerPoint.  It's late enough that you can sleep in and early enough before your day really starts.

I'm intrigued by the session at 1 p.m. entitled "What on Earth is a Gloggle?"  Sounds like it could be a mix of Glogster, Blogging, and Google Earth?  What do you think it could be?

Click here to register, if you're interested.

And here's the whole schedule:

9 a.m. Can I Help You With That?  The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director with Justin Karkow

10 a.m.  Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast?

11 a.m. Thinking Outside the Slide

12 p.m. Putting the Bling in Your Builders with Steve Dembo

1 p.m. What on Earth is a Gloggle?

2 p.m. Be Nice and Share: Publishing Your Media-Infused Projects for the World to See

3 p.m. Can I Help You With That?  The Student as Collaborator, Creator and Director, encore presentation with Justin Karkow

Still not convinced?  Click here.