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The
Education Center: Peer support |
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Every
education services manager, every instructional media
professional at every NETA member station has a seat on the
Education Council. (See
list)
Besides meeting at national conferences, the Council also
convenes
periodic teleconference calls to discuss topics of systemwide importance. |
PBS
TeacherLine Local Innovation Fund
NETA serves on grant
proposal review team for the project.
TeacherLine is a provider
of high-quality K-12 online teacher professional
development
with the goal of improving teacher quality and increasing
student achievement. Twenty-eight proposals funded totaling
$900,000
to licensee recipients.
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PTV's Affinity Group Coalition
Education Committee Staff Support
NETA provides assistance to membership
and national organizations
through coordination of monthly
calls chaired by Rob Shuman, MPT.
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NSDL Math Pathway
Project
NETA sits on Advisory Committee at request of MPT for the 3-year
project to establish and operate an elementary math path for the
National Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Digital
Library (NSDL). The primary target is elementary
classroom teachers
and will involve creating online digital
content and establishment of a
resource and research website.
PBS Digital Learning
Library (née EDCAR)
NETA serves on project Strategic
Planning Working Committee tasked
to craft a 3-year plan for the
DLL effort to create a single (flexible, tiered,
locally-focused) model which will enable public broadcasters to
deliver
a set of 21st-century learning services from
a shared digital media
repository. eLearning for
Educators
NETA participates with APTV, NHPTV,
WVPB, WLVT, MPB, KET,
KETC, UNC-TV, MPT, and WHYY in five-year
grant developing online
teacher professional development
courses. NETA serves on Advisory
Board and delivers
professional learning at annual Academy. (link)
PBCore Resource Group
NETA serves on voluntary advisory
group to promote and maintain the
development of pubcasting’s
metadata dictionary. PBCore is designed
to provide for
television, radio and Web activities, a standard way of
describing and using data, allowing content to be more easily
retrieved
and shared among colleagues, software systems,
institutions,
community and production partners, private
citizens, and educators.
Such a standard is pivotal to applying
the real power of digital technology
to meet the mission of
public broadcasting. (link) |
National Association
for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE)
NETA participated in a focus group
with national and local education
leaders to
establish a Code
of Best Practices in Fair Use for
Media Literacy Education for
release at the National Constitution
Center in Philadelphia.
Videos, lesson plans, and curriculum materials
to be found at
www.mediaeducationlab.com
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Professional
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Our next professional development
opportunity
KQED's
QUEST
a cross-platform science/nature/environment project,
plus a look at other new professional
development models
for teachers.
Thursday, August 26 at 3:30 pm ET
Presenter: Jessica Neely,
QUEST Project Manager
Producer: Terry Dugas,
NET/Nebraska
Click here to register /
take part in this call. |
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There's no charge for participating
in professional development
calls like ours. It's free, a benefit of your station's NETA
membership.
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