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Cable in the Classroom (www.ciconline.org)

Welcome to the official podcast channel of Cable in the Classroom, the cable industry"s national education foundation. Working at the intersection of the cable industry and education, our aim is to expand and enhance learning for kids in and out of the classroom.

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Time for Kids to Vote!

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2008/10/09

It's time for Nickelodeon's Kids Pick the President!The program's host, Linda Ellerbee, joined Kids.Cable.Learning for this podcast (15.6MB, MP3) to tell us about how kids can get involved - and pick the president.Kids Pick the President airs Sunday, October 12th at 9pm EST on Nick. Then, kids get to vote for president online - polls open immediately following the show.Kids can vote online from October 12th - Oct 20th.The winner of the kids' presidential race will be announced on Monday, Oct. 20th

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Developing 21st Century Skills in School and District...

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2008/09/03

During the 13th Annual K-12 School Networking Conference of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) held in Washington, DC in March 2008, Cable in the Classroom helped moderate a panel discussion on Developing 21st Century Skills in School and District Leaders. CoSN is the country’s premier voice for K-12 education leaders who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning.Members of the panel discussed the 2007 revised framework of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which

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Documenting Youth in Action

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2008/08/25

Moises Velez is a Peabody-award winning producer and currently the head of development for mun2, the NBCU cable network that celebrates the lifestyle of U.S. Latino youth. He spoke with Cable in the Classroom about the network’s documentary news series revolving around some of the most important issues relevant to Latino youth - including immigration, the environment and military recruitment in schools. This series includes “Toxic City,” the topic of our recent podcast with student Ryan Perez

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Got STEM? Building Interest in STEM among Girls and...

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2008/08/04

This podcast (MP3, 33.1 MB) is a recording of a panel discussion held during the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). Based on the content of the Summer 2008 edition of Cable in the Classroom’s Threshold, Helen Soulé of Soulé Consulting Services moderated this discussion on innovative approaches to build interest and demand in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields among young women and minorities. Panelists included Erin Reilly from the Project New

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More eLECTIONS resources

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2008/08/01

Donna Krache, executive producer for CNN Student News, talked with us (MP3, 8.0MB) about this free resource from CNN, their contribution to CIC’s eLECTIONS game and what teachers and students have to look forward to from the organization in the fall.Website Resources:CNN Student NewsElections 101CNN Student News: Talking Democracy

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From the C-SPAN bus

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2008/08/01

Hear about C-SPAN’s plans (MP3, 3.3MB) for educator resources during this presidential election… from the exhibition floor at NECC 2008.Website resources:C-SPAN.orgC-SPAN Classroom

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Ed Begley on HGTV's "Living with Ed"

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2008/05/05

When actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. became motivated to help improve his smoggy Los Angeles, Calif., environment-around the first Earth Day in 1970-he started small: recycling, composting, and buying biodegradable soaps and detergents. Now, Begley shares his 38 years of environmental know-how through the reality series Living with Ed, an HGTV Cable in the Classroom offering that showcases his efforts to reduce his family's environmental impact, from sustainable landscaping to

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WE tv – HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

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2008/04/15

Cable in the Classroom recently spoke with “Kim W.” who is one of the featured students in WE tv’s HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, a documentary series airing Mondays at 10 pm ET through April 28. The series follows 12 girls through four years of high school capturing their daily lives, motivations, challenges, and peer and parental pressures they experienced.In this interview (MP3, 15MB), we take a look at recent Harris Poll findings on teenagers’ lives related to stress, lack of sleep, body

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Helping Parents Protect, Educate Kids about Media

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2008/04/07

The 2007 Media Smart Award winner, Kelly Mendoza, presented her findings (MP3, 45MB) to an audience of education and cable leaders in March. Her paper Mapping Parental Mediation and Making Connections with Media Literacy, provides insight on how media literacy can strengthen and improve effective parental mediation. Mediation is defined as any strategy parents use to control, supervise or interpret media for children. Parental mediation, described as one of the most effective ways of managing

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Inspiring Youth in Their Communities

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2007/12/18

Educators looking for programming that brings civics, environmental clean-up, economic development and social justice topics to life for their students, now have a new tool. The Mun2 News Special, “Toxic City: This Is Where I Live,” is the latest installment of the TV network’s Peabody-Award winning news special series and focuses on young Latinos across the nation who are improving their environments and communities.“Toxic City” profiles Latino youth in highly polluted communities who are taking

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Win With Words!

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2007/11/06

GSN, (Game Show Network), is now conducting its second annual National Vocabulary Championship (NVC). NVC is a nationwide academic competition that offers high school students between the ages of 13-19 the opportunity to win prize money toward college tuition through online qualifying exams and citywide championship events throughout the U.S. Students in grades 9 through 12 who are interested in qualifying for GSN's NVC Finals, that will take place in March 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, can visit

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C-SPAN StudentCam

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2007/10/25

Listen to an interview with C-SPAN (22MB, MP3) about their 2008 StudentCam competition.StudentCam is a video documentary competition that invites students to identify a current political topic of national interest and produce a ten minute or less video documentary which creatively explores the issue, while also integrating C-SPAN programming. The annual documentary competition for middle and high school students is a great way to get students engaged in exploring key issues during a

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Parenting Moves Online

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2007/09/27

This week, Cable in the Classroom and Common Sense Media released the findings from a nationally representative poll of parents about their internet-related actions and attitudes.Today, we are pleased to make available a podcast [19MB, MP3] of the press briefing conducted to release the poll (conducted via web- and tele-conference).Conducted by Harris Interactive, the poll, Parenting Moves Online, provides a comprehensive and timely snapshot of parents and legal guardians of 6-18 year olds (whose

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Take a Veteran to School Day: How to Get Involved!

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2007/09/14

In this podcast interview [17MB, MP3], the History Channel’s Dr. Libby O'Connell discusses the network’s Take a Veteran to School Day program that provides engaging curriculum for teachers, diverse learning opportunities for students and recognition for America’s veterans. Take a Vet to School Day is kicking off its first year this fall, linking veterans of all ages with young people across the country. The program offers free age-appropriate curriculum available online for Kindergarten to

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Cable Celebrates Educators at NECC 2007

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2007/08/23

The cable industry was out in force during the 2007 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in June.Represented by Cable in the Classroom, Discovery Education, The History Channel, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), CNN Student News, C-SPAN (which brought the Campaign Bus!), Court TV, and cable operators (including Cox Communications, Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and others) the industry participated in in-depth presentations, held a

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Virtual Schools and 21st Century Skills

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2007/07/18

At the 2007 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Cable in the Classroom's Senior Director of Education Policy, Douglas Levin, had the opportunity to join Susan Patrick, President and CEO of the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL), in presenting on the intersection of two emerging educational policy innovations: virtual schooling and 21st century skills.Cable in the Classroom, as the national education foundation of the U.S. cable industry, is a founding board member of

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2007 Cable's Leaders In Learning Awards Gala: Comcast...

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2007/07/18

On the evening of June 6, 2007, national education leaders, policymakers, and cable industry executives all gathered at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC to honor the third class of Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards recipients.Elena Russo of Comcast on the Red Carpet was there to share the excitement of the evening with you in this five minute video segment [M4V, 58MB] airing nationally on cable systems like yours!The 2007 class of Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards recipients included

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Digital Ethics: A Threshold Forum

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2007/06/22

The Summer 2007 issue of Cable in the Classroom's Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education - released in conjunction with the 2007 National Educational Computing Conference - features articles focused on the challenges and benefits of Web 2.0 in today's education environment, produced in partnership with the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF).[And, if you'll be at NECC this year, be sure to join us and our cable industry partners at numerous presentations and exhibits.]In this podcast

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Tuned In and Totally Wired

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2007/05/14

Last week, Cable in the Classroom organized and presented a special session at the cable industry's annual conference focused on the technology and media behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs of today's students. Just as education administrators and policymakers are starting to look to students for their perspectives (for instance, see: here, here, here, here and here), so too are media companies and cable programmers trying to make sense of what the future has in store.In this episode (MP3, 72 MB), we

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Winning with Words

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2007/04/09

In advance of the TV premiere of GSN’s National Vocabulary Championship, Cable in the Classroom recently interviewed its champion, Robert Marsland, an 18-year-old senior at St. Ambrose Academy in Madison, Wisconsin.During the finals in March, he competed against 49 other students to win $40,000 towards his college education, and the title of National Vocabulary Champion.In this podcast (MP3, 13MB), Robert shares how he became interested in words, how his studies prepared him for the

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