[RETURN TO MODULE 3]

1. Go to our Padlet Wall at: http://padlet.com/scampo/thinking and add a sticky note (double-click anywhere on the screen) with your response to prompt at the top of the screen

2. Are you Part of the Group ~ DEN? Check out WHY you might want to expand your personal learning community (JOIN)

User Guide for Discovery Education

3. How can the SAMR Model and Mathew Needleman's Technology Taxonomy inform our work?

4. To use videos purposefully consider the strategies presented in this excellent resource from KQED: Using Video Effectively and Using Video with English Language Learners

5. Let's Get Started! Your current login for Discovery Education is:

https://powayusd.discoveryeducation.com

TEACHER Login: your normal Novell login

Password: your normal district password

STUDENT logins are now their normal district logins:

Student login: student id#
Student password: birthday mmddyy (Jan. 5, 1998 would be: 010598 ; Oct. 5, 1998 would be: 100598

6. To tour all the new features in Discovery Education, complete the following Digital Treasure Hunt

Freebies:

Overview to share with Your Site

IMPORTANT Download Information.

To find excellent Digital Scavenger Hunts with video instructions in Discovery: Search for "Digital Challenge." When the list of challenges appears, do them in this order:

1. My DE

2. Integration

3. Student Experience

4. Builder Tools

7. Examine 5 or more sample boards from the "50 Ways to Use Board Builder" and be prepared to share your best discoveries! Now it's your turn to create a Board Builder Assignment.

It can be an assignment for your students, or...
You can start with an essential question, or...
It can be a board that will scaffold or build schema for a concept or unit of study, or...
You can simply post a video, graphic organizer, and one KQED strategy to help your students process an important concept.

8. Go to our Padlet Wall at: http://padlet.com/scampo/thinking and edit your sticky note to share what are two new learnings you had AFTER completing the tasks above.