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Secretary Arne Duncan wants to hear ideas about how the U.S. Department of Education can accomplish President Obama’s goal of providing every child in America a complete and competitive education, from cradle through career.



As the Department prepares for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, Secretary Duncan wants to hear from classroom teachers and other educators, parents and students, business people and citizens. What’s working, and what’s not? What do they need to do… Continue

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Swan School Student Video PSA Used By EPA To Promote Online Interactive Earth Day Projects



( Port Townsend, WA – April 10, 2009) To promote their Earth Day video and photo projects, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using a Port Townsend Swan School Adventurers Class student video. The 30 second Public Service Announcement (PSA) encourages individuals to share the ways they enjoy and protect their… Continue

Environmental Education Week is April 12-18. (YouTube Play List)



Help spread the word. Post these public service announcements (PSA) video embed code on blogs, websites and social networks (myspace, facebook, livejournal, etc.).



EE Week is the largest organized environmental education event in the United States that increases the educational… Continue

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be producing a series of video Public Service Announcements with students to education and promote Environmental Education Week in April.



If you would like to collaborate on a videoblogging or podcasting project for Environmental Education Week or EarthDay, let me know. (EE Week Student PSA YouTube… Continue

5th grade students read their letters to President Obama.



Last week, I discovered that YouTube now allows Close Captions to be added to videos that can be translated into twenty-plus languages. Click on the small triangle on the lower right corner of the video player to see the close caption on this video, Very Cool!…



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Model Programs Spark New Opportunity to Transform Children’s Education



New York and Las Vegas, January 9, 2009 – Mobile device use is exploding among children worldwide, cell phones and iPods are this generation’s preferred form of social communication. More than half of the world’s population now owns a cell phone and experts project that people will use cell phones as their primary means of accessing the Internet by the year 2020. However, most educators and parents have… Continue

Beatrice Pang, Vice President China Tomorrow Education Foundation (CTEF), talks with Dennis Su, President CTEF, at the 2008 Seattle International District Chinatown Summer Festival.

Based on Mercer Island (WA), CTEF is a "non-profit 501(c)(3) charity organization, whose mission is to build schools and libraries to improve China's rural education."…



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Two years ago, I made it a requirement that all the students in my… Continue

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New research sheds light on students' ability to process multiple modes of learning

By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, eSchool News



An analysis of existing research supports a notion that already has begun to transform instruction in schools from coast to coast: that multimodal learning--using many modes and strategies that cater to individual learners' needs and capacities--is more effective than traditional, unimodal learning, which uses a single mode or… Continue

Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent for the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, moderates a panel discussion at the 3rd annul Teaching & Learning Celebration that was held in New York City last month.



Panelist: Billy K. Cannaday, Jr., Michael Flanagan, Kim Oliver, Roy Romer, Andreas Schleicher, Eliot… Continue

Oklahoma Howe Public schools provides laptop computers to all 5th - 8th graders. Check out their weekly podcast - ”CLE… Continue

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Yesterday, Melinda interviewed David Flink, the Executive Director & Co-Founder of Project Eye-To-Eye. Project… Continue

Below is a post published on my Seattle PI Reader Blog - Videoblogging 206. Kevin is interested in multimedia journalism and I'm teaching him the "tricks of the trade" through a variety of communication vehicles. (Update: Cool. The Ning system accepted all of the embedded players I'm currently using.)

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International youth reporter Kevin Tain… Continue

This morning at 8:30am (PST) I'll be talking with Trent Mitchell, Video Production Teacher at Seattle Shorecrest High School about how his 4th period class made the above "Hey Ya - Music Video".…



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