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Matt’s Media Tips 1-23 Two tips to make your reading experience a little easier. First, if you click on the center of your screen the page should enlarge. You can then zoom in even more by using either the scroll wheel on your mouse or the scroll bar a the top of your screen. Second, don’t forget that you can also download each of these tips and tricks as a PDF. Meet The Faces of Discovery Education Ok this is pretty cool. As you know Discovery Education is part of the Discovery Channel. And since we are part of the Discovery Family, our network brothers and sisters are easily accessible to you...right inside Discovery Education! They’re hangin’ out in the Teacher’s Center waiting for you. We’ve selected some of their great work on camera and tied it to encyclopedia articles, images and teacher guides for you. Check it out!
Don’t Miss the Discovery Education Winter Webinar Series: STUDENT EDITION! Join us every Wednesday in February for this exciting Discovery Education webinar series that puts a spotlight on students. We’ll build from educator basics and getting students up and running, then look at engaging students through project based learning and Discovery Education tools and resources. Finally, we’ll conclude with special for-students webinar that will give them the tools to launch their Discovery Education adventure. Register today: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/StudentEdition An Overview of Discovery Education STREAMING Wednesday, February 1 @ 7 PM ET Get back to the basics of Discovery Education STREAMING! This webinar will explore the myriad of curriculum resources and time-saving features found in Discovery Education STREAMING. Already used by over 50% of US schools, the Discovery Education STREAMING library offers more than 100,000 learning objects aligned to both state and Common Core standards including: 55,000+ video segments; 25,000+ images; and thousands of encyclopedia articles, songs and hard-to-find speeches. Our webinar begins with the basics and moves through searches, the teacher center, and other resources. Providing Students Access to Discovery Education Wednesday, February 8 @ 7 PM ET Did you know that access to Discovery Education is not just for educators, but for every single student as well? Learn how to provide student access, and in no time they will be clicking away through videos, images, and more from home, school, or anywhere they have an internet connection. We will highlight enhancements to the My Admin site including a new Classroom Management feature to extend learning outside of the school day. Engaging Students with Discovery Education Wednesday, February 15 @ 7 PM ET Are you looking for new ways to engage your students with Discovery Education? Why not put the power of learning at their fingertips through our redesigned Student Center. With unique logins, students can browse grade-specific content and access personalized assignments. In this webinar, we will demonstrate new ways to deliver resources to motivate students, engage higher order thinking, and achieve curriculum learning goals with the support of the Discovery Education Classroom Manager and Assignment Manager. Project Based Learning with Discovery Education Wednesday, February 22 @ 7 PM ET Project based learning is a powerful strategy that gives students an opportunity to chart their own course by answering in-depth questions that drive investigation. In this webinar, learn more about the project based learning planning and process, and find out how Discovery Education can support students in their investigation. You'll leave with a deeper understanding of project based learning and tools and ideas for implementing immersive experiences that ignite students' curiosity. Student Investigation: Discovery Education Wednesday, February 29 @ 1 PM ET Calling all students! This webinar is just for you. Gather your class and be prepared for an exciting 30 minute journey through Discovery Education. We’ll check out how easy it is to research that report due on Monday, download a video to help with tomorrow’s homework, and explore all kinds of cool stuff on you can access through Discovery Education.
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Miss a week? Catch back up here! 1/18/2012
In a Class of Their Own Setting up Discovery Education Classrooms, Discovery Education Live Webinars, Quizlet App.
1/9/2012
Building out the New Year Five of my favorite things you can do with the Discovery Education Builders, Rover App for DE Students
12/19/2011
Special Holiday Edition 13 Tips from Educators around the US and Canada, Videolicious App
12/12/2011
50 Ways to Use Discovery Education Tips and tricks galore iSwifter App - Flash for iPads
11/28/2011
What I am Thankful for Building out your PLN Wordspree and Math Acorn Apps
11/14/2011
Things I Stole From the Community DEN Tips, Four really cool you can do with Google. TED and Animoto Apps
11/7/2011
First Six Weeks Aggregated
11/4/2011
Creating an “iCenter" How to create an ePub using DE videos. Spirit of Innovation Challenge
10/24/2011
Spooky Edition Digital Storytelling, Web 2.0 Piqua City Community Night, Crazy Pumpkin and Halloween Card Creator Apps
10/17/2011
Stick it to IT Collaborative Note Taking Site Educator Spotlight - Jennifer Everett, ToonTastic and PuppetPals Apps
10/3/2011
Opening Up Closed-Captions Closed-Captions for Macs and PCs, 10 FAQs Customer Service Receives
Story Kit is the International Children's Digital Library App. It allows you to create your own stories, complete with pictures. Add text boxes, images and sound clips. Record sounds for your stories, and add, reorder or delete your pages. Add pictures by drawing on the screen, taking a picture of something, or drawing something on paper and taking a picture of it! The app includes four public domain children’s books that you can rewrite and rearrange into your own story.
Discovery Education Webinar Schedule Dates
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1/25
2pm 3pm
What’s on your Fork? Does what you eat really have an impact on our planet? Join Philippe Cousteau of EarthEcho International for a What’s On Your Fork? webinar on January 25 to begin exploring the environmental and community impact of daily food choices
1/28
9-3
DEN SCIcon! This online conference (with a twist) focused on providing participants with some of the most effective strategies for transforming their science classes through the meaningful and effective integration of digital media content.
2/1
7pm 8pm
Making Mobile Media Meaningful in Your STEM Classroom (and beyond!) Make your classroom walls expand! Mobile phones, iPads, and tablets have the ability to create and share learning both in the classroom and in the extended online anywhere/anytime universe. Hall Davidson will show educators how to build interactive projects and assessments that tap and expand student knowledge with apps, QR codes, social media sites, and more. Attendees will learn how free resources, media libraries, and the web can work mobile - even for students without smart phones. You don’t want to miss this webinar!
2/1
7pm 8pm
An Overview of Discovery Education STREAMING Get back to the basics of Discovery Education STREAMING! This webinar will explore the myriad of curriculum resources and time-saving features found in Discovery Education STREAMING.
And it’s FREE!
9/26/2011
9/13/2011
Common Core, Web 2.0 and DE Three cool sites that integrate nicely with Discovery Education. Administrator Spotlight Molly Hay! Can you Hear what I’m Writing? Embedding an eReader into your Writing Prompts, Getting to know Discovery Education SCIENCE