This is the first newsletter sent to Romanian educators from the Discovery Educ

1. THE DEN JUNE 2012
HELLO ROMANIAN EDUCATORS!
Hello Romanian Educators! We are happy that you are
interested in joining the Discovery Educator Network (DEN).
The DEN Community is all about connecting educators to
their most valuable resource...each other. We love to share We have created an online group in Edmodo,
ideas and teaching practices to help everyone become specifically for those involved in sharing with the DEN
better educators. We have created a Romanian DEN, members in Romania. To join the group, log in to
within our larger DEN Community, especially for you to help www.edmodo.com and create an account. Then, on the
encourage the sharing of ideas and resources. We will left side of the screen, find the Groups section. Click on
periodically send out email updates, similar to this one, Join and when prompted, enter the group code – 80p2ff.
informing you of upcoming opportunities for you, ways to Once you’ve done this, you’ll be in the group and will be
connect with others, and to simply share great ideas and able to both read the information shared by others as well
resources. We hope you find it helpful. as post your own information. This online group will help
facilitate plenty of conversation. We will use Edmodo as a
way to communicate more learning opportunities.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
Our Discovery Educator Network blog is full of great resources and teaching ideas. Members of the DEN
Team as well as DEN members from across the world share their thoughts and ideas with others. We
encourage you to visit the site often because several blog posts are shared daily and we don’t want you
missing out on some of the great information available to educators.
The Discovery Education YouTube Channel has a number of videos to enhance your teaching. Many of the
presentations DEN Members have given are archived on the site.
Discovery Education Webinars We offer a number of free webinars for educators. The topics vary widely, but
there’s plenty to meet the needs of most educators. Also, check out our archived webinars!
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2. We have asked five special DEN Members
CONNECT
to help you get started with the Discovery
Educator Network. As soon as you sign up
for the Edmodo group, you’ll see posts
from these people and will have a chance
to connect to ask questions and share The DEN is all about
resources. These five people are not only wonderful educators, but they connections. We feel
also know what it takes to be a successful member of the DEN connected educators
Community. We know they will be a great resource for you as well. are better educators
Here’s a little information about each of them. and when it comes to
social media, we have
our bases covered.
• Jeannine
Shields
–
ny.den.leaders@gmail.com
-­‐
Jeannine
(Neene)
Connect with us via
Shields
is
an
Instruc<onal
Technology
Facilitator
in
Westchester,
Twitter, Facebook,
NY. Google Plus, and
• Conni
Mulligan
–
connimulligan@gmail.com
-­‐
Conni
is
an
Pinterest. Simply click
Instruc<onal
Technology
Facilitator
for
Buncombe
County
on the icons below.
Schools
in
Asheville,
North
Carolina.
• Renee
Henderson
–
rhender@pgcps.org
-­‐
Renee
is
an
Instruc<onal
Technology
Specialist
for
Prince
George's
County
Public
Schools
in
Maryland.
• Judy
Uhrig
–
jruhrig@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
-­‐
Judy
is
the
Media
Coordinator
for
Diggs-­‐Latham
Elementary
School
for
Arts
and
Global
Studies
in
Winston-­‐Salem,
NC.
She
works
with
students
in
twitter.com/discoveryed
pre-­‐K
through
5th
Grade.
• Cynthia
Treichler
–
cynthia.treichler@gmail.com
-­‐
Cynthia
is
a
high
school
Social
Studies
teacher
from
Northern
Virginia.
She
teaches
12th
grade
AP
Macroeconomics,
12th
grade
US/VA
Government,
and
9th
grade
Pre-­‐AP
World
History
I.
STEM SPOTLIGHT facebook.com/discoveryed
Here’s a great resource from one of our Discovery partners to support
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education.
Science of Everyday Life
tiny.cc/dengplus
pinterest.com/discoveryed
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3. TIPS FROM THE TEAM
In each newsletter, we’d like to share some of our favorite free sites and resources with you.
Lance Rougeux - http://www.yasiv.com/ Yasiv is a visualization tool
from Amazon.com that shows similar book recommendations based
on ‘Customers who bought this also bought...’ data. Enter a book
title and you’ll see other books users enjoyed as well. Its’ a great
way for your students to find other books they might like to read.
Steve Dembo- http://www.classdojo.com/ Class Dojo is a website
that allows you to track student behavior, both positive and negative
and provide both students and parents with real-time feedback. This
is a great way to keep students on task.
Porter Palmer- http://www.pinterest.com/ Porter loves to use
Pinterest to keep ideas organized and to share what she’s found with
others. This is one of many great social networking sites that can
help connect people and their ideas. Start by checking out our DEN
Pinterest page at www.pinterest.com/discoveryed
Chad Lehman- http://projectsbyjen.com/GTW/ Guess the Wordle is
a great activity to challenge yourself. Each day, there is a new
Wordle and you have to guess what the topic is based on the clues
given.
Ginny Washburne- http://ed.ted.com/ Ginny likes this site because
there are thought-provoking videos that make her think and reflect on
teaching and learning. She also likes using the videos to facilitate
discussions.
You can translate this newsletter to Romanian using Google Translate at: http://translate.google.com
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