05 May 2008
Ed Begley on HGTV's "Living with Ed"
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 energy-generating wind turbines and solar panels.
In this interview (13MB, MP3) with Cable in the Classroom Magazine's Lauren Capolupo, Begley talks about how educators and parents can teach students about environmental responsibility-and why kids are such an important part of a larger shift toward green living. Read about it in the May 2008 edition of Cable in the Classroom Magazine.
In this interview (13MB, MP3) with Cable in the Classroom Magazine's Lauren Capolupo, Begley talks about how educators and parents can teach students about environmental responsibility-and why kids are such an important part of a larger shift toward green living. Read about it in the May 2008 edition of Cable in the Classroom Magazine.
15 April 2008
WE tv – HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
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 image and interpersonal relationships. Kim W., now a student at Boston University majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, elaborates on her experiences in high school, particularly the stress she faced balancing parent expectations, academics, sports and other activities. We also hear how she is striving to achieve work-life-study balance now that she is in college. She describes what it was like to have cameras follow her throughout her high school years to major events, and what the reaction has been to the series. Check your local listings for WE tv to watch the series.
Website resources:
http://www.ciconline.org/we (including link to survey of girls and their parents commissioned by WE tv )
http://highschool.wetv.com/
http://highschool.wetv.com/girls/index.html
http://highschool.wetv.com/episodes/index.html
http://www.wetv.com/
In this interview (MP3, 15MB), we take a look at recent Harris Poll findings on teenagers’ lives related to stress, lack of sleep, body image and interpersonal relationships. Kim W., now a student at Boston University majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, elaborates on her experiences in high school, particularly the stress she faced balancing parent expectations, academics, sports and other activities. We also hear how she is striving to achieve work-life-study balance now that she is in college. She describes what it was like to have cameras follow her throughout her high school years to major events, and what the reaction has been to the series. Check your local listings for WE tv to watch the series.
Website resources:
http://www.ciconline.org/we (including link to survey of girls and their parents commissioned by WE tv )
http://highschool.wetv.com/
http://highschool.wetv.com/girls/index.html
http://highschool.wetv.com/episodes/index.html
http://www.wetv.com/
07 April 2008
Helping Parents Protect, Educate Kids about Media
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 television’s influence on children, helps children to think about the use of media and the messages they receive in order to highlight positive aspects of media, but also to intervene in media’s potential negative effects.
“Effective intervention of parents with their children’s media consumption in the home may strengthen children’s skills in thinking more deeply about media messages they receive,” said the study’s author Kelly Mendoza. “Parental mediation informs children about television’s importance or lack of importance, how it should be used, and how much attention or disregard they should give to the material.”
Dr. Renee Hobbs, professor at Temple University, and Anna Weselak, immediate past national president of the PTA also commented during the presentation.
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 television’s influence on children, helps children to think about the use of media and the messages they receive in order to highlight positive aspects of media, but also to intervene in media’s potential negative effects.
“Effective intervention of parents with their children’s media consumption in the home may strengthen children’s skills in thinking more deeply about media messages they receive,” said the study’s author Kelly Mendoza. “Parental mediation informs children about television’s importance or lack of importance, how it should be used, and how much attention or disregard they should give to the material.”
Dr. Renee Hobbs, professor at Temple University, and Anna Weselak, immediate past national president of the PTA also commented during the presentation.
18 December 2007
Inspiring Youth in Their Communities
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 the lead for their families in causes of environmental justice. Shot in cities across the country including Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, New York and El Paso as well as Juarez, Mexico, the special report explores how a disproportionate number of U.S. Latinos live and work among industrial waste, noxious pollution, and contaminated communities, and how youth are mobilizing to address these environmental issues.
One of the stars of the program is Ryan Perez from Huntington Park, California – we spoke with him for this podcast (MP3, 25MB). Ryan is able to connect with young viewers who can identify with his environmental work as well as his outside interests and passions.
Toxic City will air, commercial-free, on mun2 on January 14th at 1am and January 17th at 3:30am (check local cable listings). Cable in the Classroom educators can record the English-language program for classroom use.
For more information, visit:
Mun2
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
Youth for Environment Justice (Youth-EJ) My Space page
“Toxic City” profiles Latino youth in highly polluted communities who are taking the lead for their families in causes of environmental justice. Shot in cities across the country including Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, New York and El Paso as well as Juarez, Mexico, the special report explores how a disproportionate number of U.S. Latinos live and work among industrial waste, noxious pollution, and contaminated communities, and how youth are mobilizing to address these environmental issues.
One of the stars of the program is Ryan Perez from Huntington Park, California – we spoke with him for this podcast (MP3, 25MB). Ryan is able to connect with young viewers who can identify with his environmental work as well as his outside interests and passions.
Toxic City will air, commercial-free, on mun2 on January 14th at 1am and January 17th at 3:30am (check local cable listings). Cable in the Classroom educators can record the English-language program for classroom use.
For more information, visit:
Mun2
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
Youth for Environment Justice (Youth-EJ) My Space page
06 November 2007
Win With Words!
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 winwithwords.com to take the test now.
The deadline to enter is November 30, 2007.
For more insights into this year's competition, listen to a podcast (MP3, 13 MB) featuring the host of the National Vocabulary Championship, Dylan Lane. Dylan is also the host of the new version of the game show Chain Reaction which also airs on GSN. He shared details about GSN's free support materials for vocabulary study available online and also spoke about this year's competition and GSN's plans for the finale next spring.
Also, listen to the Kids.Cable.Learning. podcast with the first-ever National Vocabulary Champion, Robert Marsland from Madison, Wisconsin, for more information about the competition.
Related links:
GSN: www.gsn.com
National Vocabulary Contest: www.winwithwords.com
Princeton Review: www.princetonreview.com
The deadline to enter is November 30, 2007.
For more insights into this year's competition, listen to a podcast (MP3, 13 MB) featuring the host of the National Vocabulary Championship, Dylan Lane. Dylan is also the host of the new version of the game show Chain Reaction which also airs on GSN. He shared details about GSN's free support materials for vocabulary study available online and also spoke about this year's competition and GSN's plans for the finale next spring.
Also, listen to the Kids.Cable.Learning. podcast with the first-ever National Vocabulary Champion, Robert Marsland from Madison, Wisconsin, for more information about the competition.
Related links:
GSN: www.gsn.com
National Vocabulary Contest: www.winwithwords.com
Princeton Review: www.princetonreview.com
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