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New Discoveries for a New School Year
Lance RougeuxSeptember 3, 2008
New Content
1000 new titles will be added by theend of 2008• Fearless Planet (6)• Grossology (26)• Time Warp Trio (26)• Tutenstein (39)• Kenny the Shark (26)• Smash Lab (13) • Josh Bernstein's Expedition (6) • In the Shadow of the Moon (2)• Prototype This (13)• Save-ums (26)• Bonehead Detectives (18)• Operation Junkyard (13)• Project Earth (9)
Improved Searching and Standards Alignment
Organization of Media Elements
Enhanced Reporting (coming soon)
The Builders
• No more pop-up blockers to worry about
• You can add up to three items to a Writing Prompt such as– Images– Clip Art– And VIDEO!
• All prompts let you embed Web 2.0 Widgets within them
Regional Conferences
• Midwest Regional ConferenceSeptember 20-21, Glen Ellyn, IL
• Western Regional Conference (CA)September 27-28, Van Nuys, CA
• Northeast Regional ConferenceSeptember 27-28, Troy, NY
• Southern Regional ConferenceOctober 3-4, Huntsville, AL
• Western Regional Conference (CO)October 10-11, Thornton, CO
Online PD
• streamathon – September 23, 2008 – 9 AM to 9 PM EDT
• DEN Virtual Conference – Saturday October 25, 2008
• DEN Webinar Series– Ongoing
2008-09 Ed Tech Connect
• September – Tim Magner, US Dept. of Education
• October – Bernie Dodge, inventor of the WebQuest
• November – Alan Kay, OLPC and pioneer of modern programming
• December – Dr. Jason Ohler, author of six books including “Digital Storytelling in the Classroom”
• January – Tim Tyson, award winning administrator
• February – Bernajean Porter, author of DigiTales book and website
• March – Tony Vincent, pioneer podcaster
• April – TBD• May – Ian Jukes, Director of InfoSavvy
Group
DEN Homepage
• Redesigned front page
• New profile box with easy access to the most important links
• Hot box to highlight what’s going on around the DEN
New Features
• LIVE Chat• Buddy Lists• Forum Avatars• User Search• Event highlights• Help from the
STARs
DEN Blogs
• 15 new blog themes• Video blogs and
comments• Admin bar with easy
access to tools• Snapz Preview• More integration with
other Web 2.0 tools