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