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About Me: I've been a school librarian all my working life. This is my second year as District Librarian. One of my goals is to learn all I can about 21st century learning tools.

At 11:44am on April 25, 2009, Jack said…: Hey Linda,

Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

Do you mind passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack

At 10:04am on December 30, 2008, Jack said…: SchoolTube.com is like YouTube.com but it has been approved by educator groups. I'm hoping it is accessible to your school/library networks. If not, maybe what your kids can do is film the video and just upload from their homes.

At 6:24pm on December 29, 2008, Jack said…: Just had a little chat with the team. We're going to accept videos with embed links from either YouTube or SchoolTube, so hopefully that works OK. Please let me know!

At 7:14pm on December 25, 2008, Jack said…: Hi Linda! Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get California students involved. Please let me know. Thanks!