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Catching up on the aggregator a bit today, and found something a little ironic while reading through David Warlick’s blog. First I read about his experience meeting Consuelo Molina. 
I looked back — at a young man with a hulking video camera resting on his shoulder, and that customary tremor of terror […]

EdTech Connect Webinar Series| DiscoverySchool.com Have you seen Alan November present before? If so, then you know just how inspirational a speaker he can be. If you haven’t, here’s your chance! Discovery Education has been doing a series of totally free webinars, open to the public. The first two were presented by […]

Discovery Educator Network - Wisconsin: A trip to Mars (almost!)
The aggregator may be getting a little neglected, but this one came through the inbox. I subscribe to all of the DEN blogs through email so I can always see the way things are being sent out to our email subscribers. So while doing […]

Discovery Education just launched it’s latest product, the first that is totally built and designed for students. It’s called "Cosmeo" and it’s a subscription based service for children at home.
I haven’t worked directly on this project at all, but I did get to see it at different points during its development and to be […]

I miss my Mac.  Let me get that out of the way.  There are plenty of reasons why I like Windows too, and wouldn’t dream of trying to say that one OS is better than another, but there are certain little features built into OSX that I miss quite a bit.  Slowly but surely, I’m […]

Know what one of the great things about DEN having regional managers in every area of the country?  You find out about some amazing things that teachers and students are doing that somehow manage to slip under the radar. 
Via the Pennsylvania DEN blog:
The kids at Salisbury Middle School are on the air.  They aren’t […]

From CogDogBlog » Blog Archive » New Learning Technologies Buffet (Wiki Yum)
Alan shares a very cool wiki buffet of New Learning Technologies. Featured on the buffet are sections on Blogging, Wikis, ePortfolios, Photo Sharing, Finding Free Stuff, and Google Maps.
Personally I found a few new tools, discovered that Writely is far cooler […]

Notes from the morning sessions from the WOMMA conference
The old way to market: Develop a compelling message, attain high reach and frequency, and maintain a consistent message over time. That’s been the traditional way to do marketing and we’ve all seen it again and again and again. I remember someone telling me once […]

Right now I’m at WOMMA, a Word of Mouth conference. We don’t really advertise the Discovery Educator Network. I mean, we might wind up doing a few sponsorships and passing out some branded items, but for the most part we don’t advertise and nor do we really need to. The reason is that DEN isn’t […]

This is one of those incredibly cool things that I’ve been wanting to share but had to keep under wraps until now. Discovery Education has set up a series of live webinars with some of the biggest names in the EdTech world. Presenters will be doing a live presentation, and will hang around […]

Via The EduBlog: Savings With Open Source in Schools
Also, I watched our network administrator try to install Linux on a new Dell. The linux distro was sent to our district by Novell as a demo. The install went very smooth. I then asked if he could install a program for my students to edit photos […]

It might be the worst name for a web service in history, buy it’s a pretty darn cool little piece of code. The Rasterbator is a service that allows you to input an image (photo, graphic, illustration, etc…) and it will create a giant new rasterized image from it. “The rasterized images can […]

A starter set of EduBlogs
The entire DEN team recently got together in Maryland for a series of team building activites, meetings and trainings. I did a whirlwind tour of the blogging world and got everybody started up in Bloglines. I just realized that the list I pulled together for them might have some […]

I’m in Iowa City for the holidays, visiting the in-laws. There’s just a few things that are still hanging over my head so I figured I’d try to get just a little bit of work done in the mornign so I could enjoy the rest of the day. However, several seperate events have […]

Via Will Richardson:
When I’ve recommended that students use Wikipedia as a resource, I’ve always told them that they can’t trust what they’re reading 100% and that they should always verify their facts with a second source. But do people do the same with the Encyclopedia Britannica?
In case you didn’t see it, The Journal […]