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Hidden Heroes is a hands-on, standards-based curriculum that asks youth to tell the stories of their communities through the heroes and leaders who live and work there.

Cable in the Classroom is the U.S. cable industry’s education foundation. Its mission is to foster the use of cable content and technology to expand and enhance learning for children and youth nationwide.Cable in the Classroom advocates for the visionary, sensible and effective use of media in homes, schools, and communities.

VENUS aims to internationalise prestigious courses, with international scope and importance, in each member university through virtual mobility, open to both students and citizens. Related: # The VENUS Handbook entitled 'Creating New Opportunities for Universities' has just been published. This handbook is based on the experience of the partners in the VENUS project who organised Virtual Seminars on a broad range of European subjects and a Summer School on the Use of Social Software in Business and Higher Education. http://www.venus-project.net/images/Venus_gids_v05.pdf # The VENUS Platform, an online Platform which was created to support the main outcomes of the Venus project.http://www.venus-seminars.net

Video Active is a project funded within the eContentplus programme of the European Commission. Its main goal is "to create access to television archives across Europe. The unlocking of these (largely) closed archives will make their content available for educational and academic purposes. It will enable an interactive discovery of television's cultural heritage. The project will achieve this by selecting 10,000 items television archive content, which reflects the cultural and historical similarities and differences of television from across the European Union, and by complementing this archive content with well-defined contextual metadata." The consortium also maintains a blog: http://videoactive.wordpress.com

These are four links about accessibility issues in the VideoAktiv participating countries: Belgium, France, Netherlands and Spain.

This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his twenty years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, Steven Goodman looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education. Responding to our national concern about adolescents, literacy, media, and violence,Teaching Youth Media: * Describes the changes schools and after-school programs need to make in order to create a media education that empowers students to change their world. * Explores the intersection of literacy and culture as youth learn to analyze information from a variety of sources, including television, newspapers, books, films, school, church, and lives outside of school. * Features case studies of students and teachers engaged in making video documentaries at EVC and in an alternative high school. * Illuminates the practical day-to-day challenges faced by professional developers and teachers working to change the way education is practiced in their classes and schools. * Looks at the profound "disconnect" that results when teachers and curriculum fail to recognize the social and cultural contexts in which urban students live. * Explores the critical thinking and technical video arts skills students develop as they learn to collaboratively conduct interviews, research, shoot, log, and edit their documentaries.

Kennisnet Foundation ("Stichting Kennisnet") is the public ICT supporting organisation of, for and by the educational field. The foundation looks out for the interests of the Dutch educational field in the ICT area, offers supporting tools with making choices between ICT products or services and offers educational services and produces to innovate learning. Kennisnet is also the expertise center when it comes to ICT and education. http://www.kennisnet.nl http://www.ictopschool.net

This PDF gives an introduction to implement audiovisual education and courses for children.

WatchKnow as in, "You watch, you know" is a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos. WatchKnow started its beta-testing phase at the end of 2008. "Let's collect all the best free videos online to help with the education of children everywhere. We're a free, open, international project to make excellent watchable educational media accessible from one place."

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to • browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more • up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license • interact with fellow sound-artists The project also aims to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research.