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!

Digital media players are nearly ubiquitous and are a tremendously engaging technology for the students of today. Teachers can tap into the excitement and harness this technology as an instructional and assessment tool. Learn how to access, create, assess, and publish podcasts as well as the pedagogy of educational podcasting.

Blogs, Glogs and Vlogs – what the heck is an ‘og anyway? Simply a way for students (and teachers) to organize and publish work for the world. Come join us as we get our ‘ogs on and learn about these simple applications and how they support traditional teaching and learning. At the end of this session you’ll learn how you can plant a little Web 2.0 widget code and grow it into a global collaboration.

Students learn and demonstrate their understanding in diverse ways. Meet this need by tapping the extensive learning pathways available to students through technology. Enhance instruction with digital curriculum tools, creative activities, and engaging media.  Learn to create rigorous and relevant learning experiences that motivate and inspire the 21st century learner.  

This hands-on session will overview the evolution of the Internet known as Web 2.0 and its applications for teaching and learning in the 21st Century. Multiple applications for some of the major Web 2.0 categories (mashups, social media, and video) will be highlighted.

Connect your students to and invest them in the wider global community with Project Based Learning and Web 2.0. Project Based Learning is a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions, real world challenges, and carefully designed products and tasks.  This session will introduce the Web 2.0 applications that can be integrated to facilitate communication, collaboration, contextualization, and content creation as part of a PBL experience.

This session is for teachers who currently have a class wiki. Participants will explore third-party interactive content and will learn how to use advanced formatting to customize wiki webs and wiki pages. NOTE: This is an advanced session.

Do you recall how challenging it was to research in the "Bee Gee Age" (the disco age Before Google)? Explore exciting ways online tools can augment traditional researching methods and connect students to the tools and habits of mind for 21st century anytime, anywhere learning. Examine the best online applications to empower students while developing information fluency and cultivating best practices for locating, organizing, sharing, managing, and evaluating information.

Wiki is the Hawaiian word for "quick" and quick is an appropriate term to describe how you can create an engaging and rich Internet site using Wikispaces. In this workshop, you will learn how to navigate Wikispaces and to create your own class wikis. You will gain an understanding for the educational application of wikis as well as how students and teachers are already making use of this exciting and easy online application. Note: This session is for beginners who are creating their first wiki.