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New Curriculum Resource from NBC News
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Global SchoolNet Moderator
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Aug 24, 2007 14:07 PDT
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From: Jessica Hahn <jess-@peithocom.com>
Subject: New Curriculum Resource from NBC News
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:57:24 +0000
To: gsn-k12o-@topica.com
NBC News has just opened its video vault to the education community,
making decades of historic multimedia footage available to teachers to
integrate into their lesson plans. This resource is available for free
for the fall 2007 semester through HotChalk, a K-12 focused learning
management system. Teachers can register for free at www.hotchalk.com.
More info is pasted below.
Decades of Historic NBC News Archives Released in HotChalk s Digital
Learning Environment Engages Students in Active Learning
Online Tool Features Over Sixty Years of Historic NBC News Archives
New York, NY In a significant move to support K-12 education, NBC News
is opening its video vault of over sixty-years of historic news archives
and supplemental resources. Made possible through a unique partnership
between NBC News and HotChalk, a K-12 focused learning management
system, teachers in every school will now have access to NBC educational
content specifically created for classroom instruction.
Designed to engage students in active learning and provide primary
source multimedia content that far exceeds what is available in
traditional textbooks, more than 5,000 video resources provided by NBC
through HotChalk can be used to supplement instruction in a wide range
of courses: history classes can watch the civil rights movement as it
happened and view interviews with key players; science students can see
recreated footage of the Ice Age or watch today s arctic shelves
disintegrate into the ocean; and government classes can have access to
the very latest news on immigration, the presidential race, or
international relations.
Starting today, teachers of all grades, including AP courses in U.S.
History, Government and Politics, and English language and composition
can sign up to use the new NBC education resource free of charge at
www.HotChalk.com for the fall 2007-2008 semester. Continued use requires
a school building subscription through HotChalk for interested users.
Using NBC News production services, the new digital educational content
released today includes, additional NBC archive materials, several
hundred videos created in collaboration with historians, textbook
authors and other experts on a wide range of topics dating from
beginning of history to the 1930 s when NBC began its archive. Teachers
will also be able to access additional primary source content, original
audio, video and third-party content such as the Washington Post s
newspaper articles, and current material from NBC News leading media
properties, including NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press.
In many ways, through our reporting and coverage of world events, we
write the first draft of history every day, said Steve Capus, President
of NBC News. Students use technology seamlessly outside the classroom
to learn new information and share content. Making NBC News resources
available in classrooms lets us build a bridge between traditional
teaching methods and the interactive media culture that students live
in.
When students can see and hear the events and people that made history
such as President Kennedy s speech about freedom to throngs of people
at the Berlin Wall they engage. The NBC News videos naturally draw
students in, leading to deeper understanding of the subject at hand,
said Edward Fields, President and Chief Executive Officer of HotChalk.
By embedding the videos in the HotChalk Learning Environment, teachers
get instant access to dynamic supplemental materials and can spend more
time teaching.
In addition to the NBC News archives, teachers in over 27,000 K-12 U.S.
schools will have access to HotChalk s Swap Shop, a repository with more
than 3,000 teacher-contributed lesson plans and other curricula
resources created and refined by teachers. They can use HotChalk
University, a professional development offering that includes an
educational technology integration program and core curriculum courses
from McGraw-Hill. The learning management system also includes
collaborative learning tools to encourage students to share comments and
content with classmates, an easy-to-use homework distribution and online
grading system.
HotChalk makes it easy for teachers to communicate with parents, turning
teachers, students, and parents into high-performance teams producing
measurable academic results. Recent independent research has documented
that teachers feel the free HotChalk Learning Environment improves
teachers instruction more than other, fee-based learning management
systems currently available to educators.
Additional NBC News archives and other educational content will be added
continuously to the HotChalk Learning Environment offering teachers more
resources to support numerous academic disciplines. Plans for content
and instructional resources tie into local, national, and major world
current events, such as the Olympics and 2008 Presidential election.
About NBC News
NBC News has been a leading source of global news and information for
more than 75 years, first on radio, and today via broadcast and cable
television, the Internet, radio and cell phones. Operating around the
clock with bureaus in key cities in the United States and overseas, NBC
News provides immediate coverage and in-depth reporting of major events
to a worldwide audience.
About HotChalk
HotChalk is focused on improving the lives of teachers. Teachers save
time using HotChalk so they can spend more time teaching by working
together, sharing lesson plans, best practices and results. HotChalk,
the market leading Web 2.0 learning community serves millions of
teachers, students and parents every month in more than 159 countries
worldwide.
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