Wow! What a wonderful
day of Discovery! I look forward to
Discovery Education offering a wonderful pre-conference day at Pete & C
each year. I have never attended Pete
& C but after this year I decided I am not missing it next year!
The opening presentation was a collaboration demonstration
by Hall Davison, Lance Rougeux, and Steve Dembo. They talked about how we need to look at the
22nd Century because many schools are surpassing the 21st
Century. One great app they talked
about was “Life of George” created by Legos.
It’s an amazing app and you will want to check out for your
classroom! I left their presentation excited
about the rest of the day!
The first session I attended was the Collective Brain given
by Lance Rougeux. He showed us many
fabulous websites that would be a wonderful resource in our classroom, such as http://www.yasiv.com (Amazon’s Product Visualization) and http://agoogleaday.com, which asks a question
a day. Great ideas!
The second session was iThink iNeed iPads in my Classroom
presented by Steve Dembo. Steve showed
us many amazing apps along with Apple TV.
He showed us how beneficial it was to have Apple TV in our classroom if
you are using iPads. It was amazing to
show our favorite apps by displaying our iPad on the screen.
After lunch there was a DEN Star Showcase. I had the great
privilege to share Web 2.0 Tools, which I love.
It was called Beyond the Classroom Walls. I met so many wonderful people and had the
opportunity to share all the wonderful things that are taking place in my
school.
My final session of the day was learning about Scratch. Scratch
is a great downloadable package to teach programing. I remember programming years ago and it seem
like you wrote a hundred lines to have Hello come up on your screen. I am so excited that teachers are still
teaching it because I think it is important that students understand have
programs work.
Once again, it was a fun-filled and educational day. Reed Timmer, Discovery Education
Meteorologist, made a guest appearance today! WOW! That was awesome!
Overall it was a great day of learning! Can’t wait for the
next one!
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