Agenda

Time Activity Room

Cafetorium
8:30-9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast
(1st Floor)
Cafetorium
9:10-9:20 AM Welcome to Day of Discovery
(1st Floor)
Keynote with Animal Planet host, Cafetorium
9:20-10:20 AM
Dan Riskin (1st Floor)
Refer to
10:30-11:20 AM Breakout Session 1
Session Matrix
Cafetorium
11:20-12:00 PM Lunch
(1st Floor)
Refer to
12:10-1:00 PM Breakout Session 2
Session Matrix
Refer to
1:10-2:00 PM Breakout Session 3
Session Matrix
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2:10-3:00 PM Breakout Session 4
Session Matrix
Cafetorium
3:00-3:30 PM Announcements and Prizes
(1st Floor)
 Dan Riskin

Dan Riskin is the host of Animal Planet's popular show about parasites Monster's
Inside Me. Dan's research has focused on the biomechanics of bat locomotion, and he
is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the City University of
New York. As a renowned expert on bats with a particular interest in parasites, Dan is
passionate about connecting science to everyday life and inspiring students (adults
too!) to discover that science is fun. At the New England Day of Discovery, Dan will
share personal stories about his experience as a biologist, assistant professor, and
host of the popular Animal Planet series Monsters Inside Me. He’ll reveal some of his
latest research on the locomotion of bats; describe how mentoring played a role in his
development; and provide his insights on the power of technology to support scientific
research. While science is his area of expertise, Dan recognizes the need to engage
today’s tech-savvy student not only in science education, but also across all academic
disciplines.
 Session Matrix
Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
Rooms
10:30-11:20 AM 12:10- 1:00 PM 1:10-2:00 PM 2:10-3:00 PM
Merging Literature, Merging Literature,
Community Homework Gone Homework Gone
Discovery Education, Discovery Education,
Room Digital with Digital with
and Google Earth and Google Earth
st Discovery Education Discovery Education
(1 Floor) Robin Metaj* & Robin Metaj*& Howard
Whitney Mihoulides Whitney Mihoulides
Howard Gunther* Gunther*
Discovery Education Discovery Education 21 Ways to Reach the 21 Ways to Reach the
st st
Art Room SCIENCE and the 5 SCIENCE and the 5 21 Century Learner 21 Century Learner
nd E’s of Inquiry Based E’s of Inquiry Based with Discovery with Discovery
(2 Floor)
Instruction Instruction Education Education
Cynthia Brown Cynthia Brown Cynthia Brown Cynthia Brown
Differentiate Differentiate
Engage your Engage your Instruction Using Instruction Using
Room 206 Students with Green Students with Green Discovery Education Discovery Education
nd
(2 Floor) Screen Magic Screen Magic and Student and Student
Danielle Kay* Danielle Kay* Response Systems Response Systems
Michelle Zachary* Michelle Zachary*
Understanding Understanding
Discovering Digital Discovering Digital
Room 207 st st Discovery Discovery
Comics in a 21 Comics in a 21
nd Education’s Education’s
(2 Floor) Century Way Century Way
Administrative Site Administrative Site
Marybeth O’Brien* Marybeth O’Brien*
Joe Fromme* Joe Fromme*
Room 211 Create Interactive Use Glogster EDU to Use Glogster EDU to Revolutionize Book
nd Digital Posters with Expand Digital Fulfill STEM Reports with
(2 Floor -
Glogster EDU Literacy Principles Glogster EDU
Computer
Jim Dachos & Mike Jim Dachos & Mike Jim Dachos & Mike Jim Dachos & Mike
Lab)
Olcott Olcott Olcott Olcott
Discovery Education Discovery Education Discovery Education Discovery Education
Room 212 & Promethean & Promethean & Promethean & Promethean
nd Boards, A Perfect Boards, A Perfect Boards, A Perfect Boards, A Perfect
(2 Floor)
Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage
Joe Talaiver Joe Talaiver Joe Talaiver Joe Talaiver
Lights, Camera, Lights, Camera, Free Resources from Free Resources from
Action! Using Movie Action! Using Movie Discovery Education Discovery Education
Room 213 Maker for Student Maker for Student to Use in Your to Use in Your
nd
(2 Floor) Generated Book Generated Book Classroom Classroom
Trailers Trailers Carol Miller* & Mauri Carol Miller* & Mauri
Lisa Kirby* Lisa Kirby* Dufour* Dufour*
Checking for Checking for
Music Room iLearn with iPads Understanding a iLearn with iPads Understanding a
rd
(3 Floor) Kyle Schutt Digital World Kyle Schutt Digital World
Kyle Schutt Kyle Schutt
Make Way for
Media Center Day in the Life of a Day in the Life of a Powering Up Your
Habitats, a Model
rd Discovery Educator Discovery Educator Presentations
(3 Floor) Lesson
Lindsay Hopkins Lindsay Hopkins Lindsay Hopkins
Lindsay Hopkins
 Session Descriptions
21 Ways to Reach the 21st Century Learner with Discovery Education STREAMING (Art Room – 2nd
Floor)
Cynthia Brown (DEN Manager, 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.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Checking for Understanding in a Digital World (Music Room – 3rd Floor)

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 digital tools including
Discovery Education's Progress Zone along with a host of other free web 2.0 resources to find out what your
students know so you can teach them what they need.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas. This session highlights Discovery Education
ASSESSMENT.

Create Interactive Digital Posters with Glogster EDU (Room 211)

Jim Dachos and Mike Olcott (Glogster EDU)
Transform “old school” poster projects into beautiful multi-media digital posters (Glogs) in an easy to learn and
use format. No more glue, scissors, poster board, and mess. Become skilled at adding engaging graphics,
data, images, audio, video, and text to “Glogs” using simple “Drag and Drop” technology in a safe teacher-
controlled virtual classroom environment. Connect with your students using today’s technology and apply all of
the great image, audio, and video based content that Discovery Education has to offer!
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Day in the Life of a Discovery Educator (Media Center – 3rd Floor)

Lindsay Hopkins (DEN Director, Discovery Education)
Join us as we take you on a journey through "A Day in the Life" of a 21st century classroom from the
perspective of its teacher. Morning bell to afternoon dismissal, see how digital media from Discovery
Education STREAMING enriches lessons by differentiating instruction, meeting the needs of the individual
student.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.
Differentiate Instruction Using Discovery Education and Student Response Systems (Room 206)
Michelle Zachary (DEN STAR, Brockton Public Schools)
Student response systems provide educators with the ability to actively engage students and easily assess
student achievement. You can use student response systems for formative assessment and frequent progress
monitoring in order to promote data driven differentiated instruction and to meet the learning needs of each of
your students. Join us to learn how to incorporate the use of digital media from Discovery Education
STREAMING and student response systems to differentiate for your students.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Discovering Digital Comics the 21st Century Way! (Room 207)

Marybeth O’Brien (MA DEN LC Events Coordinator, Brockton Public Schools)
Looking for a low-tech highly motivating way for your students to create digital stories? This session will focus
on using PaperSlide Comics or Videos for students to showcase their knowledge acquired through the endless
content available through Discovery Education STREAMING. All that you need is a creative mind, engaging
content and a digital video camera such as a Flip or camera with video capabilities.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Discovery Education STREAMING and Promethean Boards, a perfect marriage (Room 212)
Joe Talaiver (Teaching and Learning Consultant, Promethean)
Come witness the union of 21st century content with 21st century teaching tools. In this session we'll learn
how to truly integrate Discovery Education media assets into Promethean technologies, including embedding
Flash Video and easily including citations and references. Luckily, the dress code is informal for this ceremony!
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Discovery Education Science and the 5 E’s of Inquiry Based Instruction (Art Room – 2nd Floor)
Cynthia Brown (DEN Manager, 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 is applicable to all curriculum areas. This session highlights Discovery Education
SCIENCE.
Engage Your Students Using Green Screening Magic (Room 206)
Danielle Kay (DEN STAR, Brockton Public Schools)
Green Screen technology provides students with the ability to conceptualize, visualize, share, and
communicate information about the world while being virtually there at the same time. This engages and
excites learners and provides a sense of reality and purpose for learning with in the classroom. It also
provides cross-curricular learning options and adds a new dimension to learning in the digital age environment
not previously possible. These tools for learning give students opportunities to exhibit their writing to others, to
use emerging technologies, and to communicate their research in a personally meaningful way (using Web 2.0
tools). In addition, the students are able to view their world from a more connected, global perspective, and to
engage more complex dimensions of human perception. For educators it is an emerging digital tool with
potential to enhance learning that uses real-world data visually. In this workshop you will learn how to place
students from your classroom into discovery videos using apple software.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Free Tools from Discovery Education to Use in Your Classroom (Room 213)
Mauri Dufour (ME DEN LC Event Coordinator, Auburn Public Schools) and Carol Miller (ME DEN LC
Chair, Auburn Public Schools)
They’ve always been there, and they continue to expand, but you many not have even know they even
existed. Join us as we go journey through the all of the free things (pre-login) that Discovery Education brings
to you, your students, and even your parents every day! We’ll explore dynamic websites that can be used in
the classroom or at home, we’ll play with lesson plan and puzzle makers and even discover ways to win
material for your classroom. And because Discovery Education has established fantastic partnerships,
everything that we will explore is absolutely free.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Homework Gone Digital (Community Room – 1st Floor)

Whitney Mihoulides (DEN Manager, Discovery Education)
Put the power of learning at the fingertips of your students through Discovery Education’s Student Center. With
unique student logins, your educators will learn how to differentiate student learning through the use of tools
such as Writing Prompt, Quiz, and Assignment Builder.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

iLearn with iPads (Music Room – 3rd Floor)

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? Come join us as we explore techniques for delivering Discovery Education
content while building a mobile learning toolkit powered by the iPad. As a sweet treat, we’ll also show off the
DE mobile site and our U.S. geography app!
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.
Lights, Camera, Action! Using Movie Maker for Student Generated Book Trailers (Room 213)
Lisa Kirby (RI DEN LC, Newport Public Schools)
Better than a book report, book trailers, like movie trailers, are enticing advertisements for books. Students
become advertising movie makers. Creating book trailers touches upon a wide array of creative planning.
Included are writing a script, choosing visuals to describe the main events in a book, deciding upon music to
represent the theme and finally bringing it all together in Movie Maker where the scriptwriter becomes the
producer coordinating music to the slides for maximum effect.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Make Way for Habitats, a Model Lesson Plan (Media Center – 3rd Floor)
Lindsay Hopkins (DEN Director, Discovery Education)
Web 2.0 tools, digital media content, Google Earth field trips, audience response systems, interactive
whiteboard lesson plans...what impact do they have in your daily instruction? Come learn new instructional
strategies for integrating all of these 21st Century teaching tools into your next model lesson plan. We’ll
demonstrate new ways to utilize Discovery Education STREAMING and Discovery Education SCIENCE
resources to create interactive lesson plans that support all curricular areas.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Merging Literature, Discovery Education STREAMING, and Google Earth (Community Room – 1st Floor)
Howard Gunther (CT DEN LC Member, ACES) and Robin Metaj (CT DEN LC Member, ACES)
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. Create flyovers of battlefields, explorations, or animal migrations. Learn how to integrate Discovery
Education STREAMING media and Google Earth to building a Google Lit Trips. This session will examine the
tools and share implementation strategies while focusing on curriculum integration. Participants will leave with
new tools for interacting with their students.
This session will highlight applications in the Language Arts and Humanities curriculum areas.

Powering Up Your Presentations (Media Center – 3rd Floor)

Lindsay Hopkins (DEN Director, Discovery Education)
We all know that the computer, projector and PowerPoint software have replaced the old slide projector,
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 will explore the necessary (and not-so-scary) steps for building an
engaging multimedia presentation.
This session is applicable across all curriculum areas, but will use examples from Social Studies and
Science.
Revolutionize Book Reports with Glogster EDU (Room 211)
Jim Dachos and Mike Olcott (Glogster EDU)
Revolutionize traditionally text based approaches to history, languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and
visual arts with Glogster EDU’s presentation capabilities and Discovery Education media content to craft
unique Glog projects and lessons.This “how to” session will engage Glogster newbie and natives alike with
innovative ideas, hands-on demonstrations, and valuable resources to make even the most challenging topic a
successful student activity. Digital literacy, creativity, and fun join forces to energize students of all ages,
abilities and learning styles.
This session will highlight applications in the Language Arts and Humanities curriculum areas.

Understanding Discovery Education’s Administrative Site (Room 207)

Joe Fromme (CT DEN LC Chair, CREC)
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 applicable to all curriculum areas, but is specific to those users with administrative
rights within Discovery Education.

Use Glogster EDU to Expand Digital Literacy (Room 211)

Jim Dachos and Mike Olcott (Glogster EDU)
Use Glogster EDU Premium to Generate Projects that Expand Digital Literacy and Transform your Classroom
into a Virtual Learning Environment. Use “Glogs” (multi-media Posters) as the focus for cross-curricula
projects, using Discovery Education media content, that engage and motivate students of all ages and learning
styles. Learn how to set up virtual classrooms; assign students to the classrooms, initiate projects with pre-
designed templates using DE content, monitor projects step by step, assess finished projects, and create Glog
presentations and Student Portfolios – all from an easy to integrate teacher-controlled and safe learning
environment.
This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.

Use Glogster EDU to Fulfill STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Principles (Room 211)
Jim Dachos and Mike Olcott (Glogster EDU)
Combine the benefits of Glogster EDU, Discovery Education content, and technology with STEM (science,
engineering, and mathematics) principles to provide creative and innovative approaches to problem solve and
apply what has been learned. Transform the typical teacher-centered classroom by developing Glogster EDU
student projects that are driven by independent problem-solving, discovery, exploratory learning, and require
students to actively engage to find a solution. See STEM Glog projects, learn how to create them yourselves,
and share your innovative resources with students, teachers, and parents.
This session will highlight applications in the Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology curriculum
areas.