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Media Literacy Curriculum Kit Available

Four years in the making, the revised and expanded Media Constructions of Global Warming kit is now available online. This is Project Look Sharp's first kit that teaches core science content as well as analyses of media messages about global warming.

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Project Look Sharp

IT Professionals Launch Website Series To Better Prepare Students for College and Careers

"Webprofessionals.org (WOW), a not-for-profit professional association for aspiring and practicing Web professionals, announced today that it has launched the “WhyCTE.org” series of websites dedicated to promoting Career Technical Education (CTE), college and careers in
America in direct response to President Obama’s call for resources and role models to “better prepare America’s children for college and the workplace.”

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http://whycte.org/

World Summit Youth Award

"Young People Using Internet and Mobile to put the United Nations Millennium Development Goals into Action!

 The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) invites young designers, writers, journalists and e-Content creators to participate in this year´s international competition - using internet and mobile contents to create awareness of the MDGs. 

If you rely on the web for creating culture, overcoming gender inequality, lack of education and access to clean water or to address hunger, poverty, disease and environmental degradation, then you should take part!



Bridgestone Firestone: Driving Safety Film Contest for Teens

"Grab your camera – it’s time for the fourth annual Safety Scholars Video Contest, now accepting entries until July 1. This is your chance to jump in the director’s chair and show how we can all be safer behind the wheel.  If you’ve got a compelling, creative idea related to safe driving, make a short video (25 or 55 seconds) about it, then register and enter it here for a chance to be a 2010 Safety Scholars winner!"  Three Grand Prize winners earn a $5,000 college scholarship.

Social Media Revolution 2 - Video with Stats

"Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman."

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