Discovery Education Speakers Bureau

For fantastic, connection-free classroom assets, capture or download Web 2.0 creations, mix with both subject-area resources and your original creations: video, voice, and images. Explore how content on the web can be captured for editing on your desktop with both free and low cost tools.  Incorporate curriculum-based media in wildly engaging ways. Explore the legality, the benefits, and lots of engaging examples from Web 2.0 sites. Create on the web, capture locally, and build curriculum-rich projects and lessons.

Sure they're bright and shiny, but are they really learning devices? We'll take a close look at how exactly these technologies are being leveraged in the classroom and what the best Apps are for educational purposes. We'll also explore some creative ways that you can fund your own i-initiative!

Personal Learning Networks (PLN's) provide leaders the opportunity to create a culture of professional development that extends far beyond the traditional 3 institute days per year. We will discuss how learning communities are empowering educators and producing a climate of perpetual innovation within the schools that embrace them.

As presented at ISTE/TIE Leadership Bootcamp, Denver 2010

Meet the needs of 21st Century learners. Begin with curriculum-based resources then tailor them for your class. Find videos, shorten/edit them easily. Add narrations, stills, music other videos. Make and take from Web 2.0 videos. Move into presentations. Insert students inside with Chromakey. The hidden power of QuickTime Pro (Mac or PC), screen captures, websites Xtranormal, Gizmoz. Most free, some fee, all fun. Step by step walks through great tools. Target engagement with mind-grabbing resources.

This session compares and contrasts the 19th- and 20th-centuries' traditional way of teaching history and geography with our 21st-century digital approach. Taking themes and regions from currently adopted textbooks, the session will examine just how digital resources can place students in the London tunnels of World War II during the blitz, can put them in the California sun with Cesar Chavez and the migrant workers, can allow them to feel the elation Henry "Box" Brown felt when he arrived in Philadelphia a free man and no longer the slave in the box. In this same session, teachers will understand that because history is organic and protean, students must know what is happening now and how the past informs their present.

This session is a practical hands-on exploration with solutions to creating engaging units and weekly lessons, relying on technological tools and applications our students use everyday. Sessions include Modular Units and Model Lessons in both core content areas as well as cross-curricular approaches.

This session explores English/Language Arts and social studies curricula in light of innovative curriculum alignments--alignments enhanced by customized, digitally-embedded digital assets: video chapters, images, articles, interactives, writing prompts, and audio. The goal of this new innovative approach to curriculum development is to engage students within a familiar digital milieu and to take them where no text book can

Learn the astonishing the role women's slave narratives can have on literary history, politics, social change--both in the nineteenth century and the present. In a time when the curriculum can pull from all the strengths of the American fabric, learn what new voices can teach and how past strengths can better prepare learners for a future full of unexpected change.

The culture of the world has evolved and the culture of America reflects the world in which it takes the leadership role. The need for English Language Acquisition (ELA) and social study classes to include texts from a variety of authors and sources--African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Asian Americans, Africans, the Middle East, and other cultures has never been more important. In order to prepare our students for a global community and global conversations, the selection of texts is critical. Learn the factors for building a course of study that meets the needs of new learners while serving the curriculum.

This multiple-day workshop involves reviewing a district's curriculum, looking for texts that have or may pose challenges in instruction for students. Work through materials with an expert on curriculum integration and work out a plan that will serve the needs of 21st Century teaching and learning. The workshop includes candid conversation, recommended teaching strategies and approaches, and modeling with students when possible. NOTE: A full workshop is not always the appropriate path but an appropriate strategy to meet district needs can be adapted.