Program+Ideas

**Program Ideas for RadioWorks and MediaWorks**
===Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/characteristics.cfm===


 * HS Student Video Contest: @http://www.worldof7billion.org/index.php/student_video_contest**

Visual Understanding in Education Visual Understanding in Education (VUE) conducts educational research focused on aesthetic and cognitive development that results from interaction with art. Based on its findings, VUE develops programs for schools and museums, principally Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). For more information visit [ http://www.vue.org ]http://www.vue.org

Speak Truth to Power New York State United Teachers and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights have collaborated to develop the Speak Truth to Power curriculum, which focuses on human rights defenders who are changing our world. This online resource includes materials and classroom lesson plans aligned to the New York State Learning Standards. For more information, please see [ @http://blogs.nysut.org/sttp/ ]@http://blogs.nysut.org/sttp/

2011 Olympics of the Visual Arts The 2011 Olympics of the Visual Arts (OVA) will be held at the Saratoga Springs City Center, Saratoga Springs, New York on Wednesday, March 30, 2010. The OVA program provides an opportunity for students to participate in individual or group artistic problem solving. A new series of problems is posed every fall. Students create long-range solutions at their schools, and travel to the Albany area to compete on short-range problems in a day-long celebration of creativity. There are awards for each of the problem categories at every level. Registration must be received by Friday, February 18, 2011. For more information visit [ http://www.nysata.org/mc/page. do?sitePageId=87223&orgId= nysata ]http://www.nysata.org/mc/ page.do?sitePageId=87223& orgid=nysata

Joy2Learn Resources Joy2Learn brings America’s greatest artists into the classroom free of charge via the Internet. Visit [ http://www.Joy2Learn.org ]www.Joy2Learn.org and click on e-Presentations to view artists as they demonstrate and explain their art. Learn about various art forms as you navigate through exciting videos and interactive multimedia elements including performances, history, artists’ insights and quiz games.

@http://www.newschallenge.org/winners/2010

@http://www.prx.org/
 * Public Radio Exchange:** is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming. PRX is also a growing social network and community of listeners, producers, and stations collaborating to reshape public radio.


 * Front Porch Forum:** To help residents connect with others and their community, this grant will help rebuild and enhance a successful community news site, expand it to more towns and release the software so other organizations, anywhere can use it. The Front Porch Forum, a virtual town hall space, helps residents share and discuss local news, build community and increase engagement. The site, currently serving 25 Vermont towns, will expand to 250. @http://www.frontporchforum.com/


 * The LocalWiki Project** is an ambitious effort to create community-owned, living information repositories that will provide much-needed context behind the people, places, and events that shape our communities. And we have already proven this basic idea can work and provide tremendous benefits to a community. @http://localwiki.org/


 * Center for Media Change:** The mission is to enrich our culture by facilitating the creation and distribution of more high-quality documentaries. @http://www.reelchanges.org/


 * Change.Org:** Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects likeminded people, whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to address the issues they care about. @http://www.change.org/


 * Great Lakes Echo**: We foster and serve a news community defined by proximity to and interest in the environment of the Great Lakes watershed. We use traditional news reporting methods but also push the frontiers of journalism to harness the knowledge, interests, skills and energy of that community. @http://greatlakesecho.org/


 * Ushahidi** can help fill the gap by creating a free web map and timeline that journalists and citizens can use to contribute multiple reports of large news events. Contributed by web, e-mail or mobile phone, the reports will be displayed as locations on the map, as well as on the timeline. The visual display of the source and type of information will help with trend analysis. http://www.ushahidi.com/

Online Tools and Applications: @http://www.go2web20.net/


 * Changing Gears** is a public media project about the future of the industrial Midwest. Each week, reporters Dan Bobkoff in Cleveland, Niala Boodhoo in Chicago and Kate Davidson in Ann Arbor cover issues of interest to the Great Lakes region. Changing Gears also sponsors public events and conversations. @http://www.changinggears.info/

Using Texting to teach reading: write a story from handheld devices and upload to a single site. Google docs? Other. Seek 2.0 application.App Documents to Go: @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documents_To_Go

Wen 2.0 Sites 2009: http://tdhahwiki.wikispaces.com/Web%202.0%20Annotated%20Reference%20List