DEN Virtual Conference Feb 2nd, 2008

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the Discovery Educator Virtual Conference at Discovery Headquaters in Silver Springs, MD.

I learned so many new things from our presenters that I decided to create a blog for myself to document everything I've learned.

Also,I was great to see Katie Knapp and Annie Gilstrip, my former colleagues from Virginia Beach. Oh how I miss my colleagues from the Beach. :-(

Our first Key Note was Lance Rougeux. His presenation titled "Lost in Translation" can be found here on the discovery blog.

I've also embedded it from slideshare.net below: (by the way, I learned that copying and pasting these codes in from You Tube, Teacher Tube, Slide Share etc. actually has a name. They are called "Widgits" - who new? Well- Lance did ...actually)

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The whole conference should be available in the webinar archives soon, or here on Discovery's Blog

Here are the new and exciting resources that I learned about at the conference:

• http://transl8it.com - Type in a sentence or paragraph and it will translate it into chat abbreviations for you.
• http://www.moonk.com :Upload Digital Videos or pics, pick a skin, and post to your blog, facebook, website etc.
• http://voicethread.com: Upload Video, pics, docs etc, people can make audio comments and sketch at the same time to collaborate on projects.
• http://www.mosaickr.com/: With mosaickr you can create beautiful mosaics from your flickr pictures, and even print them on posters!
• http://usstream.tv/
• http://www.slideshare.net/: SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. And it's free.
• http://www.gcast.com/: Created Podcast by calling in from your cell phone
• http://blabberize.com/ : Make a talking picture
• http://animoto.com/: turn images into music videos

I also learned about many new blogs that I should keep up with to stay on top of new trends in the ed tech field. If any of you have Google accounts, I can share these with you through Google Reader.

Ed Tech Blogs:
http://www.bethknittle.net/WP_Blog/
Media Matters - Hall Davidson
The DEN in Second Life
Teach42 by Steve Dembo
The View from My Window- Alice Barr
Cliotech - Jennifer Dorman
Kathy's Shrock's Kaffeeklatsch
Daniel Goleman's Blog (creator of emotional and now social intelligences)

Books to read:
"A Whole New Mind" Daniel Pink
Lauren Myracle:
"ttyl", "ttfn" and many more.

Thanks so much to the Virginia Den Leadership Council for hosting this event!
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/virginia