Discovery Education Speakers Bureau

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.

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.

Project-based learning (PBL) is a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks. Participants will learn how to create, organize, manage, and assess PBL experiences in their classroom.

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.

Way to go…you found your house! What other ways can you use digital media from Discovery Education and Google Earth to provide the kind of context that your students crave? Get ready to take flight by taking a virtual tour of our world. Learn how to spice up placemarks with digital media and record a virtual tour. We’ll also explore sample lessons, collections and overlays that are ready for you to use!

Dive deep into the wealth of digital media available in Discovery Education streaming and learn how to use it to engage your students with digital stories. With access to thousands of videos, images and audio clips, your students will move from their desk to the director’s chair. Learn how to integrate digital media into Photo Story, Movie Maker and cutting edge Web 2.0 sites to make your students' digital stories come alive!

Finding and playing video segments is one of the many ways you can use the Discovery Education streaming library. But did you know that your DE streaming resource includes a built-in Interactive Atlas, Calendar, hundreds of writing prompts, thousands of quiz questions and a whole lot more? During this session you’ll learn how to integrate DE streaming tools that are aligned to Arizona’s state standards in new and exciting ways to reach your 21st century student. There will be something for everybody, so come with an open mind and hang on!!

Did you know that you and your students can make movies without even having a digital camera or leaving your classroom? Come and explore all the possibilities of Microsoft's free MovieMaker software on the PC and free iMovie software on the Mac. Learn how easy it is to import media to edit projects, and to create your own movies!