[YL] YouthLearn Newsletter, Issue 110

Tue May 1 15:22:10 EDT 2007

YouthLearn
Newsletter, Issue 110 - May 1, 2007

The YouthLearn Newsletter compiles the latest entries to the
YouthLearn News Blog. This innovative service to the YouthLearn
community highlights youth, education, and technology news, tools,
and resources. We hope this assists you in your important work.
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YouthLearn Updates 

Youth Media Expert Joins YouthLearn Team
YouthLearn is thrilled to share the news that Deidre Searcy, youth media
educator and expert on arts integration, has joined our team as a new Senior
Associate for Curriculum and Program Development. Deidre will be working on
a range of projects that help educators promote youth media making and
integrate technology tools. 
URL: http://www.youthlearn.org/about/staff.html <http://www.youthlearn.org/about/staff.html> 

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News

Video Streaming to Enhance Lessons and Engage Students
"Recognizing the need to engage a new generation of students who are
visual learners... Baltimore County Public Schools--the nation's 25th-largest
school system--has installed video servers and a video-on-demand system
in all of its 169 schools. Although the use of video on demand is nothing new
for schools, what distinguishes Baltimore County's effort is that the district
has formed teams of teachers in each school to brainstorm ways of using
the videos to their fullest potential across each subject area."
URL: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7015 <http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7015>  

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Funding

Corning Incorporated Foundation Grants 
"Resources are directed almost exclusively toward initiatives which improve
the quality of life in and near communities where Corning Incorporated is an
active corporate citizen. Currently, the Foundation annually fulfills
approximately 175 grants totaling some $3.0 million. Support goes to
institutions that are tax-exempt under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code and which are public charities as defined in Section 509(a)
of the Code." Funding areas: Educational; Cultural; Community Service;
National Programs; Matching Gifts Program. "Grant seekers are advised to
submit a two-to-three page letter of inquiry, signed by the senior
administrative officer of the organization."
URL: http://www.corning.com/inside_corning/our_commitment/community.aspx <http://www.corning.com/inside_corning/our_commitment/community.aspx> 

Legion Child Welfare Foundation Announces Grant Applications
"The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation accepts funding proposals
from nonprofit organizations for projects that meet one of the foundation's
two basic purposes: 1) to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional,
and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge
about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to
benefit youth; and 2) to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge already
possessed by well-established organizations, to the end that such
information can be more adequately used by society. Grants must have
the potential of helping American children in a large geographic area... grants
have ranged from $1,500 to $70,000, and have averaged about $32,000." 
URL: http://www.legion.org/cwf/ <http://www.legion.org/cwf/> 
Referred by: Foundation Center 

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Resources

Science in After-School: A Blueprint for Action
"The Coalition for Science After School is pleased to announce its latest
report, Science in After-School: A Blueprint for Action. This report lays out
a blueprint for how to build a sustainable system of after-school science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning opportunities at a scale
that makes a difference for young people, their communities, and the
nation. The Blueprint calls for action in three areas with a charge to:
Provide engaging and intellectually challenging programs, curricula, and
activities; Build staff capacity; Develop appropriate assessment and
evaluation measures. The document is available from the CSAS website." 
URL: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/csas/resources.html <http://qt.exploratorium.edu/csas/resources.html> 

Minding MySpace: Balancing the benefits and risks of online social
networks
"Schools are hard-pressed to balance the benefits and risks posed by kids'
online social networks. Web sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal
and Xanga make it easy for students to post photos, personal information
video clips and music files, and to build networks of 'friends' across the
country. But they also pose an irresistible lure to pedophiles, and they can
be abused by children who use them to post scurrilous attacks on teachers,
administrators and other adults. They also contribute to 'cyberbullying'
attacks by students on their peers. Carol Brydolf surveys the terrain of this
brave new world for the California School Boards Association's California
Schools magazine, offering school governance teams expert opinions on
how to work with the emerging technology." 
URL: http://www.csba.org/csmag/csMagStoryTemplate.cfm?id=168 <http://www.csba.org/csmag/csMagStoryTemplate.cfm?id=168> 
Referred by: PEN Weekly NewsBlast 

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Research

Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance
Learning
"Funded by The William Penn Foundation, Quality Time After School
identifies characteristics of after-school activities that are linked to youth
engagement and learning across a rich diversity of out-of-school-time
activity areas. Drawing from surveys and interviews with more than 400
participants and instructors from five Philadelphia-based Beacon Centers,
the report's findings highlight the importance of two features of high-quality
activities: good group management and positive adult support of learning.
Building on analyses of over 50 detailed activity observations, as well as
key lessons from past research, the report also suggests a road map for
program operators and policymakers to create engaging learning
environments in after-school programs."
URL: http://www.ppv.org/ppv/youth/youth_publications.asp?section_id=8#pub213 <http://www.ppv.org/ppv/youth/youth_publications.asp?section_id=8#pub213> 
Referred by: Promising Practices in Afterschool 

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Activities

PBS Media Literacy Activities
"How do you help your students succeed in a media-filled world? Do they
know how media is created? Can they analyze the messages that inform,
entertain, and sell to us everyday? Have they created their own media
messages?... Try out these ideas for integrating media education into the
arts, reading & language arts, social studies, math, science & technology,
health & fitness, and early childhood education."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/media_lit/getting_started.html <http://www.pbs.org/teachers/media_lit/getting_started.html> 

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