Posts belonging to Category DEN
July 18, 2010
(Please note, this is cross posted on the Wisconsin DEN Blog)
On Thursday of the DEN LC Symposium, we took a break from Bentley University and took a field trip via trolley to downtown Boston. There, we attended the Building Learning Communities conference, put on by November Learning. A couple of DEN STARS, Lee Kolbert and Teryl Magee were presenting [...]
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Tags: blc10, denlc10, kolbert, magee, thumann, wesch
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July 15, 2010
Wednesday of the DEN Leadership Council Symposium was scheduled to be an “Unconference.” A what? The night before, Steve Dembo asked the attendees to ask for topics of discussion that they thought would be interesting to learning more about. Steve mentioned that those coming up and suggesting ideas would also be the people who would [...]
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Tags: denlc, unconference
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July 12, 2010
I’m at the Discovery Educator Network Leadership Symposium this week just outside of Boston with about 75 other educators from across the country. Our “base camp” is Bentley University. Most of our time will be spent here participating in a variety of professional development activities. We will, however, take a trip to the Building Learning [...]
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June 28, 2010
Choices, choices, choices. ISTE is about choices. Whether you’re talking about which sessions to attend during the day, where to eat, or what evening social to attend, the decisions are difficult. Saturday was the first day where choices had to be made. For me, the choice I had to make was [...]
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Tags: discovery, edubloggercon, iste10
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June 25, 2010
Well, I’ve made it to Denver for ISTE, which not everyone can say just yet. Our condo is really nice, we have a great view of Coors Field from one of the windows (see the picture to the right), and I’m looking forward to the fun times we’re going to have together. It’s going to be [...]
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Tags: iste, stager
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June 25, 2009
Today marks the first day of the DEN Leadership Council Symposium where Rachel Yurk and I will be representing Wisconsin. We will be discussing ways to improve the each state’s DEN, learn more about roles various people can play within the DEN, and how to get more people involved. It’s going to be [...]
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February 15, 2009
I’m a new member of the Wisconsin Discovery Education Network Leadership Council (WI DEN LC) as a blogger. While my blogging skills aren’t nearly as good as the blogs I read, my hope with this new adventure is that I grow as a writer and can share some of the great things going on [...]
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September 23, 2008
This post may sound like a huge plug for Discovery Education. It’s not meant to be. It’s meant to share with you some information I feel is going to enhance my teaching and hopefully enhance the learning of all of the students I work with.
This past weekend (yes, Saturday and Sunday), I participated [...]
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September 20, 2008
I’m in the middle of a weekend in Illinois at the Midwest Discovery Education Regional Conference. Wow, what a ton of learning going on. As someone who recently purchased a subscription to DE Streaming, I am thrilled to have a lot of time learning about this product (and a ton of other stuff) [...]
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August 8, 2008
This is cross posted at my new DEN Blog site.
I have no idea whether or not I’m going to continue with 2 blogs, but for now, I’ll probably cross post because it will be the easiest. I’m going to try and keep the DEN blog related to Discovery stuff and new things [...]
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