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Funding

Entries Invited for Technology in Education Essay Contest
"Samsung Electronics America launched the 'Hope for Education' essay
contest in 2004. Hope for Education is a distinctive educational philanthropy
program designed to better educate U.S. elementary, middle, and high school
students through the delivery of new digital technologies and software.
Teachers, administrators, parents, and students may enter the contest by
writing a 100-word essay on why their school and students are in need of
digital technology in the classroom."
URL: http://www.hopeforeducation.com
Referred by: Foundation Center

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Resources

TILT Episode 10 - Beginning Excel in the Classroom
"Most teachers I've talked to want to use Microsoft Excel with their students
but don't know where to begin. This episode guides you through a simple but
interesting project with Excel which involves doing a real-time survey, entering
that data into Excel, and very quickly and easily turning that data into a
pictograph."
URL: http://tilttv.blogspot.com/2006/04/tilt-episode-10-beginning-excel-in.html
Referred by: TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology Blog

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Research

Whatever it Takes: Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth
"This new report documents what committed educators, policymakers, and
community leaders across the country are doing to reconnect out-of-school
youth to the social and economic mainstream. It provides background on the
serious high school dropout problem and describes in-depth what twelve
communities are doing to reconnect dropouts to education and employment
training. It also includes descriptions of major national program models serving
out-of-school youth."
URL: http://www.aypf.org/publications/WhateverItTakes.htm
Referred by: PEN Newsblast

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Activities

Tech Lesson of the Week: Poetry Slam PowerPoint Style
"Students select poems, create PowerPoint presentations that use graphics
and text to enhance those poems, and then display their presentations
as they read their poems aloud."
URL: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp018.shtml
Referred by: Education World Weekly Newsletter

“Film Your Issue” Submissions Due - May 21, 2006
"FILM YOUR ISSUE, an unprecedented 'issue film'competition, is inviting young
Americans 18 to 26--including 7 million college and university students on
1,200 campuses nationally-- to add their voices to the public dialogue on
contemporary issues via 30- to 60-second films. The Millennium Development
Goals are included as one of five "suggested sub-categories," which will offer
additional presentation platforms to winners. George Clooney and Walter
Cronkite have each written an open letter urging young Americans to engage
in the pressing social issues of our times."
URL: http://www.filmyourissue.com/index2.html
Referred by: Global TeachNet

Special Session 2006 UNESCO Young Digital Creators
International Call for Participation "Scenes and sounds of my city" Special
Session 2006 Deadline 3 May 2006 "The UNESCO DigiArts Team invites young
students and teachers to reflect on the theme of "scenes and sounds of my
city" and to send to UNESCO a joint project proposal in group work that
focuses on a specific topic or issue in relation to their urban environment or
their experiences within urban surroundings. This project will be realized
through a running session of the Scenes and Sounds of My City web-based
learning application, which is designed for young people (12-18 years old) to
collaboratively use creative digital tools in expressing their visions on urban
topics."
URL: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30690&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Referred by: UNESCO DigiArts Team

Facilitating video projects with youth - a YouthLearn activity
Given the many opportunities cited in this newsletter for young people to
showcase their own films, it might be useful to review some tips on facilitating
video projects with youth. We have found that working with video isn't
something you can just jump right into. Children must be prepared for it with
preliminary excursions into concepts like storyboarding and photography. Each
stage can be made fun and educational, and at the end of the project, the
youth will understand how all the pieces come together to make a video
they're proud of.
URL: http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/multimedia/video.asp

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