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 system-wide importance.
WTJX's
"Eat Right, Exercise for Life!" Initiative
Congratulations to
WTJX /Channel 12
Virgin Islands for their campaign
to battle childhood obesity. "Eat Right, Exercise for Life" is a powerful
message to send to young children about the benefits of creating a healthy
lifestyle. Take a look at "Eat Right, Exercise for Life" here:
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There's no charge for participating
in professional development
events like ours. It's free, a benefit of your station's NETA
membership. Contact
John Chambers/NETA to take part.
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 LearningMedia
NETA served on a project Strategic Planning Committee 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. Every
station will be able to offer PBS LearningMedia, a free digital
education service for local districts and schools. Combining
content from the PBS Digital Learning Library, WGBH Teacher’s
Domain, and a wealth of local station and producer content
partners, PBS LearningMedia will provide thousands of rich,
interactive, purpose-built digital learning objects for teachers
and students. The new platform will build on public media
strengths, giving stations a unique, local education service
with classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted, and multi-platform
content that educators and schools in your community need and
want.
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 the 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 are found at
www.mediaeducationlab.com
