DENny Awards 2009

By the Numbers

• 5,500 STARs and counting

• 25 Leadership Councils

• Over 1,000 events reported in May already

LC Election Process

• ~225 STARs volunteered to be part of a DEN Leadership Council for 2009-2010

• All STARs who completed the self-nomination will be contacted in the next two weeks

STAR Status

• Report at least two events by August 31, 2009

Virtual ConferenceSpring Into Action

• Most highly attended online event to date with over 1,600 registrants.

• Top Five States – TX (187), PA (182), CA (130), AZ (108), TN (100)

• International registrants from Argentina, Australia, Bermuda (Ministry of Education), Buenos Aires, Canada, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Romania, Rome, South Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey and Zambia.

Archives: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/denvirtcon

Spring Training

• Closed Friday, May 22• All participants will

receive an email this week requesting summer mailing address and t-shirt size

Teacher Appreciation WeekReminders

• 90-day DE suite access

• DEN Badges

Geocaching Day

• Saturday, May 30• 27 DEN Guides• Geocaching 101

webinar tomorrow at 7 PM ET

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/geocaching-day

Pre-NECC Extravaganza

• Saturday, June 27• 9 AM to 3:30 PM• Registration closes June 5

– http://tiny.cc/DEN09necc

National Institute

• Headlands Institute - July 13-17, 2009

Coming soon…

• Webinar Series for Administrators– Early August

• streamathon– September 23

• Fall Virtual Conference– October 24

• DEN Gurus – TBD

PL-DEN

• Lori Abrahams, IL

• Lee Kolbert, FL

• Anne Truger, IL

Legend

• Peggy Barger & Jim Hopton, PA

• Carole Gooden, FL

Individual Blog

• Barbara DeSantis, NJ– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/bsdbsd

• Maria Lourdes C. Angala, Washington, D.C.– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/solangala

• Tracy Standhart, NY– http://ilearnyoulearnwelearn.wikispaces.com

• Heather Sullivan, NJ – http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/newjersey

• Heather Hurley, VA – http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/virginia

Leadership Council Blog

• Michigan

• North Carolina

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Second Life

• Texas

Most Creative DEN Event

• CA LC– Grunion Run– KOCE Day of Discovery

• MO LC– DEN at the Roasterie– Fall in Love with Discovery

• TN LC– Best Buy on Digital Photography– A “Movie”ing Day on the TN River

DENthusiasm

• Jessica Donaldson, SC

• Genny Kahlweiss, CA

• Carolyn Rains, AL

STAR Power

• Matt Frey, Brevard County, FL

Educator Resources

• Alexa Flores-Hull, AZ

• Lori Molt, KS

• Emma Haygood, MI

• Beth Weeks, TX

• Traci Blazosky, PA

Community Choice

• Eileen Malick, VA– STEM

• Lynda Baker, MD– Marvelous Media Specialist

• Gail Braddock, TN– Golden Sponge Award

• Nancy Sharoff, NY– Best Virtual Hair

Leadership

• Bridget Belardi, PA

• Tim Childers, TN

• Susan Tompkins, LA

• Linda Rush, TX

Leaders of the Year

• Fred Delventhal, MD

• Teryl Magee, TN