Bell Schedule |

Time Activity Room 8:15 - 8:45 AM Homeroom Atrium /

Multipurpose Room

8:45 – 9:10 AM Morning Announcements and Discovery Education STREAMING Overview Multipurpose Room

9:10 – 10:10 AM Keynote with Matt Monjan: Consumer to Creator: The Student as Both the Learner and the Teacher

Multipurpose Room

10:20 – 11:10 AM Session 1 See Session Matrix

11:20 – 12:10 PM Session 2 See Session Matrix

12:10 – 12:50 PM Lunch What’s New with Discovery Education

Atrium / Multipurpose Room

1:00 – 1:50 PM Session 3 See Session Matrix

2:00 – 2:50 PM Session 4 See Session Matrix

3:00 – 3:15 PM Afternoon Announcements and Prizes Multipurpose Room

3:30 – 4:00 PM Extracurricular Activity: Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice Multipurpose Room

KEYNOTE | Consumer to Creator - The Student as

Both the Learner and the Teacher with Matt Monjan

Not only does today’s student want to be engaged through technology, media, and conversations at the same time, they also want to be able to instantly share their own content, ideas, and creativity with their peers and, in fact, the world. Our students have progressed beyond consumers of content to become producers and publishers. How do we, as educators, teach to someone who is technically proficient, and social media-minded? During this session we’ll explore different avenues in which the traditional model of learning is replaced with a challenge that requires students to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions. A little about Matt | Matt Monjan has blended technology and education for more ten years in the worlds of both business and K-12 instruction. Prior to joining the Discovery Education team in 2004, Matt designed, developed, and implemented adult education and certification programs for two of the largest trade associations in the country. At Discovery, Matt has worked with classroom teachers on the nuts and bolts of implementing technology and with administrators on using data from technology management to develop effective strategies for technology integration. He has pioneered innovative uses of often neglected features of technologies such as closed captioning. He is based in Discovery Education's World Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD and is currently the Director of Account Management for the Discover Educator Network. Matt speaks across the country including presentations at local, state, and regional conferences including CUE, eTech, Ohio, FETC, MASSCUE, MSET, PETE&C, and VSTE.

Session Matrix

Room Session 1 10:20 – 11:10 AM

Session 2 11:20 – 12:10 PM

Session 3 1:00 – 1:50 PM

Session 4 2:00 – 2:50 PM

Multipurpose Room A iLearn with iPads

Checking for Understanding in a Digital World

iLearn with iPads Checking for Understanding in a Digital World

Multipurpose Room B

Learning Gone Digital for Administrators

Discovery Education SCIENCE and the 5E Model

Learning Gone Digital for Educators

Discovery Education SCIENCE and the 5E Model

Multipurpose Room C

Layers of Learning with Google Earth: A Free Round Trip Ticket to Anywhere in the World

Powering Up Your Presentations

Powering Up Your Presentations

Make Way for Habitats, a Model Lesson Plan

HD Theater Mashed Media: Old Media, New Web, and Your Own Great Stuff

Mashed Media: Old Media, New Web, and Your Own Great Stuff

Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Video – and Two You Did

Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Video – and Two You Did

TLC Room Green Screening: Because You Can!

Green Screening: Because You Can!

Universal Design for Learning and DE: Supporting Diverse Learners with Multimedia and Digital Resources

Universal Design for Learning and DE: Supporting Diverse Learners with Multimedia and Digital Resources

Discovery Science Room

STEMulating Student Engagement with Digital Storytelling

STEMulating Student Engagement with Digital Storytelling

Project Based Learning: A Menu of Ideas

Project Based Learning: A Menu of Ideas

Discovery Health Room

Teaching Humanities in the Digital Age

Teaching Humanities in the Digital Age

Top 20 Free Resources from Discovery Education

A Virtual Field Trip with Google Earth and DE STREAMING

Discovery Channel

Room

Digital Tips and Tricks for Educators

Digital Tips and Tricks for Educators Digital Playground

Animal Planet Room

Geocaching: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt

A Virtual Field Trip with Google Earth and DE STREAMING

21 Ways to Reach the 21st Century Learner

with Discovery Education

STREAMING

21 Ways to Reach the 21st Century Learner

with Discovery Education

STREAMING

★ Geocaching is a DOUBLE Session! Meet in the atrium for Part 2.

★ Unless otherwise noted, sessions are applicable to all curriculum areas. ★ iLearn with iPads Multipurpose Room A [S1, S3] Kyle Schutt, DEN Manager, Discovery Education Intrigued by this latest touch-based technology? Wondering how these new devices might reshape the learning landscape of our schools? Join us as we explore techniques for building a mobile learning toolkit powered by Discovery Education content. We’ll also highlight the DE mobile site as we shift our focus from consuming content to creating content on the iPad. Checking for Understanding in a Digital World Multipurpose Room A [S2, S4] Kyle Schutt, DEN Manager, Discovery Education Research shows that when teachers understand formative assessment processes and students participate in them, BOTH achievement and motivation increase. Save time and effort, and avoid frustration, by leveraging the power of formative assessment to inform your instruction. Come learn how to use formative assessment tools including Discovery Education's Progress Zone and free web 2.0 resources to find out what your students know so you can teach them what they need. This session highlights Discovery Education Assessment, a subscription based service. Trial requests for the service can be sent to andrew_walls@discovery.com. Learning Gone Digital for Administrators Multipurpose Room B [S1] Whitney Mihoulides, DEN Director, Discovery Education We’ll dive into the database that makes DE streaming work during this session. At the end of the session you’ll know how to find and reset usernames and passwords, shuffle users and run usage reports within the Discovery Education site. We’ll also explain technical terminology in easy-to-understand language, examine the difference between streaming and downloading and explore bandwidth management strategies. This session is specifically designed for those users with administrative rights within Discovery Education. Layers of Learning with Google Earth: Multipurpose Room C [S1] A Free Round trip Ticket to Anywhere in the World Lindsay Hopkins, DEN Director, Discovery Education Google Earth has many layers, literally! Come explore the layers within Google Earth and see how you can use them in your instruction. Take students on virtual field trips that provide powerful geographic visualization - ruler tools, embedded videos, overlays of images that make the actual terrain of the earth a part of the learning experience, and more. We'll investigate up-to-date seismic activity, weather data, sea surface temperatures, 3D buildings and learn how to add our own customized content. Powering Up Your Presentations Multipurpose Room C [S2, S3] Lindsay Hopkins, DEN Director, Discovery Education We all know that the computer, project, and PowerPoint software have replaced the old slide project, hundreds of tiny static photos, and the phrase "next slide please." But did you know that PowerPoint can also be combined with a myriad of videos, sounds, effects and interactive boards to create an engaging multimedia presentation? During this session we'll explore the necessary (and not-so-scary) steps for building an engaging multimedia presentation. This session is for all curriculum areas but will use examples from Social Studies and Science. Mashed Media: Old Media, New Web, and Your Own Great Stuff HD Theater [S1, S2] Hall Davidson, Director of Learning Initiatives, Discovery Education 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.

Green Screening: Because You Can! TLC Room [S1, S2] Mark Perlman, PA DEN Leadership Council, DEN STAR, Philadelphia Public Schools Green Screening is a great way to for your students show their creativity. Instead of just talking about the topic, they can now be a part of the topic. Imagine researching an ecosystem then reporting your findings in the middle of that ecosystem? Students will be more excited when they discover that they can do an oral report without actually getting up in front of the class. Join us to find out how easy it is to do: samples, examples, tutorials, and live green screening! STEMulating Student Engagement with Digital Storytelling Discovery Science Room [S1, S2] Tracy Carpenter, MD DEN Leadership Council, DEN STAR, Resurrection-St. Paul School Many teachers think of digital storytelling as only being a good fit in a Language Arts and Social Studies classroom. Not true! Digital Storytelling represents a great learning experience across all curricular areas - including math and science. Learn how to implement digital storytelling in your classroom using teacher and student resources from Discovery Education and Web 2.0 tools. Explore how to blend media-rich, inquiry-based content with creative instructional strategies to engage students in STEM-related content, reinforce writing skills and encourage collaboration. This session highlights applications in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines. Teaching Humanities in the Digital Age Discovery Health Room [S1, S2] Porter Palmer, DEN Manager, Discovery Education Did you know that Discovery Education has hundreds of speeches with speech guides and transcripts or that we have the ENTIRE Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia series? That’s not all! If you’re looking for engaging resources on history, literature, music, art, theater, culture, or even primary sources DE is the place to look. In this session, not only will we discover how to find humanities resources in DE, but we’ll also explore how to incorporate them into free web 2.0 tools. Join us as we take the humanities into the digital age. Digital Tips and Tricks for Educators Animal Planet Room [S1, S2] Fred Delventhal, MD DEN Leadership Council, DEN STAR, Arlington County Public Schools Many people only think of Google in terms of search but it has a lot more to offer than just finding web sites. Join this Star Discovery Educator and Google Certified Teacher in a hands-on Google tips and tricks session that you can start using as a teacher the same day. The tools you'll see and experience are ones that teachers will find useful with their students and in their own professional development. And wait, there's more! We'll also explore some of the great tools and resources Discovery Education provides including Theme Pages, the Calendar, and the Discovery Atlas Interactive Map. Geocaching: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt Animal Planet Room [S1] Atrium [S2] *hands-on > outside Bridget Belardi, PA DEN Leadership Council, DEN STAR, Mount Lebanon School District Did you know that there are millions of hidden "treasures" all over the world? All you need is a GPS and a website to find them. There are almost a dozen just in Silver Spring! Come learn how to geocache and how it can be incorporated into ANY classroom. The first session will be a how-to session. A second hands-on session will follow if you'd like to cache your way around Silver Spring (please meet in the atrium). GPS receivers will be provided. A Virtual Field Trip with Google Earth and DE STREAMING Animal Planet [S2], Discovery Health [S4] Dawn Berkeley, MD DEN Leadership Council, DEN STAR, Prince George’s County Public Schools Economy got you down? Would you like to take your students on a field trip but don't have the funds? Join us as we embark upon a virtual adventure with Discovery Education and Google Earth. Depart from downtown Silver Spring and travel across town to Riverdale, Maryland. Your tour will then take a turn and head for Rodonia, Brazil, followed by a trans Atlantic voyage to the islands of Cape de Verde. This virtual expedition will also take you through other distant lands around the world. This field trip will span several disciplines including social sciences, environmental science, language arts, and history. Along the way, you will uncover environmental issues facing each place and propose an action plan. If you are an educator interested in infusing Discovery Education digital media into Google Earth, this session is for you! This session is for all curriculum areas but will use examples from Environmental Science.

Discovery Education SCIENCE and the 5E Model Multipurpose Room B [S2, S4] Whitney Mihoulides, DEN Director, Discovery Education Students learn by doing, and Discovery Education SCIENCE is a curriculum solution designed to inspire your students to think like scientists as they immerse themselves in hands-on digital science content. Explore the content and features in Discovery Education SCIENCE and see how students are motivated by the interactive content, virtual labs, simulations, and other engaging media. This session will highlight Discovery Education SCIENCE but the 5E Model is a backward design model that can be used to support instruction in any curriculum area. Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Video – and Two You Did HD Theater [S3, S4] Hall Davidson, Director of Global Learning Initiatives, Discovery Education The media tools of our century: Web 2.0 and webcams, mobile phones and real time media, social networks and engaging avatars. These, plus easy editors and media libraries, mean you can do more with the power of video than every before. Add captioning, chroma key, and more to help curriculum stick for the media-minded students you teach. A fast-paced tour of tools and techniques. Many are free, the rest reasonable. Applications for primary through high school. Universal Design for Learning and DE: TLC Room [S3, S4] Supporting Diverse Learners with Multimedia and Digital Resources Beth Poss, MD DEN Leadership Council, DEN STAR, Montgomery County Public Schools Learn how you can use video, audio, images and text from Discovery Education to support all students in a Universally Designed for Learning Classroom. Examine how the flexible nature of digital content provides access to curriculum for diverse learners including students with disabilities, English Language Learners, disengaged learners, and students who need accelerated and enriched instruction. Project Based Learning: A Menu of Ideas Discovery Science Room [S3, S4] Jennifer Brinson, PA DEN Leadership Council, DEN STAR, Salisbury Township School District Participants will investigate Project Based Learning as a systematic, interdisciplinary, inquiry based method of teaching and learning. We will examine the commonalities and differences with Challenge Based Learning. We will look at a "menu" of project options designed for a Health class, but easily transferable to any discipline. In this scenario students are encourage to select their product "ingredients" from a menu of "appetizers" and "entree`s" and then share their "desserts" by reflecting and presenting to an audience of outside experts. 21 Ways to Reach the 21st Century Learner Animal Planet Room [S3, S4] with Discovery Education STREAMING Matt Monjan, Vice President of Strategic Account Implementation and DEN Account Management, Discovery Education Videos, articles, images, oh my! In this session, you will explore a myriad of creative integration strategies for using Discovery Education media to motivate students, engage higher order thinking, support retention and transfer, and achieve curriculum learning goals. We'll also demonstrate new ways to utilize Discovery Education resources to create interactive lesson plans that support all curricular areas. Top 20 Free Resources from Discovery Education Discovery Health Room [S3] Porter Palmer, DEN Manager, Discovery Education Join us as we journey through twenty things, before you even log-in, that Discovery Education brings to you, your students, and even your parents every day for free. We’ll explore dynamic websites that can be used in the classroom or at home. We’ll find lesson plans and play with puzzle makers. We’ll even discover ways to win prizes for your classroom or school. Because Discovery Education has established fantastic partnerships, everything that we will explore is absolutely free! Come countdown the top 20 free resources from Discovery Education.

Learning Gone Digital with Discovery Education Multipurpose Room B [S3] Cynthia Brown, DEN Manager, Discovery Education Put the power of learning at the fingertips of your students through Discovery Education's Student Center. Students can take charge of their learning and become content creators by leveraging the digital media available to them. With unique student logins, educators can differentiate student learning through the use of tools such the writing prompt, quiz, and assignment builder. During this session, we'll explore all of these features and demonstrate how to use them to support student learning. Digital Playground Discovery Channel Room [S3, S4] Have a question about something you learned in one of the sessions? Do you want to learn more about a Discovery Education tool or resource? Do you wish you just had time to play? Stop by the digital playground and explore digital tools and technologies that have sparked your curiosity throughout the day. Whitney and Cynthia will be in the digital playground during the afternoon sessions and will answer all of your digital media and technology questions. As an added incentive, you’ll be entered into the drawing for a “mystery” raffle at the end of the day. Extracurricular Activity: Exclusive Screening of Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice 3:30 – 4:00 PM, Multipurpose Room

Sponsored by: Discovery Student Adventures.

Polar Bears: Spy on the Ice will focus on the journey of a polar bear mother and cub. With global warming and the ever-changing landscape of the Arctic, these cubs will be living in a vastly different world than their parents. The film uses a unique spy-camera technology, allowing the film-makers to capture polar bear behavior rarely seen before in the summer season. Drift-cams, Blizzard-cams and Iceberg-cams give viewers and humorous and intimate look into the polar bears world.

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