|
ST. LOUIS COUNTY CABLE TELEVISION PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION
This site offers comprehensive information on the services provided by the St. Louis County Cable
Television Public Educational Commission.
|
|
CABLE IN THE CLASSROOM ONLINE
This is the Cable in the Classroom website to search for programming and lesson plans. There are links to
all the available cable networks. Many of the networks have educational support materials online to aid in
integrating cable into your curriculum.
|
|
HIGHER EDUCATION CHANNEL - ST. LOUIS
http://www.hectv.org/
Cable TV learning channel for adults in Metro St.
Louis, from 12 local colleges and universities ,
who are members of the Higher Education Consortium of Metropolitan St. Louis. |
|
COOPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ST. LOUIS
A regional collaborative network of resources,
expertise and ideas provides staff development,
cooperative purchasing, legislative services and educational technology |
|
MEDIA LITERACY ONLINE PROJECT
Project to provide a support service for teachers, and others, concerned with the influence of media in the
lives of children and youth. We have created this comprehensive media literacy resource collection to
facilitate that objective. For all grade levels. |
|
TEACHING TELEVISION
Teaching children in Grades 1-6 a variety of techniques in critically evaluating media messages and projects.
|
|
THE MEDIA AND "PUTDOWNS"!
A teaching unit for the middle grades To help students spot the sources of the put-down mentality
and to evaluate its effects, ask them to examine current advertisements and spot what/who's "cool"
and who/what isn't. You might want to concentrate on the following areas: fashion, pop idols, sports
stars, disabilities, racial groups, nationalities, religions.
|
|
CENTER FOR MEDIA LITERACY
A good collection of online media literacy sites for teachers.
Include organizations, projects and good sites for teachers and
classrooms.
|
|
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS HELPER
Do your students do daily audio or video announcements? If so, this site give them all the information they
need about the day... This day in history, famous birthdays, beside some fun topics to share... cool fact
of the day, Òbuzz wordÓ vocabulary word of the day and much more!
|
|
|
|
Online directory of cable channels
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
C-SPAN & CSPAN 2
This special C-SPAN classroom section offers information and resources for educators who use
C-Span in their classrooms.
|
|
CNBC
Basicly useful for immediate news and market updates and program listings. Doesn't appear to have
an education or classroom section.
|
|
DISCOVERY
Includes special Teacher section with lesson plans, teaching tools, investigations, clip art gallery
and much more including program listings for the ANIMAL PLANET, http://animal.discovery.com/.
|
|
THE DISNEY CHANNEL
Includes program guides and interactive activities for students. Heavy with sound and animation
so you need a computer capable of this kind of interactivity.
|
|
THE FAMILY CHANNEL
This links takes you to the Family Channel's Cable in the Classroom page. It has special monthly
programming and activities and you can download Study Guides as pdf files.
|
|
THE HISTORY CHANNEL
The History Channel encourages students to experience history personally and to connect their own
lives to the events and great figures of the past. Besides program listings, check out This Day in
History and the special Classroom Link with study guides listed alphabetically.
|
|
MSNBC
Mainly up-to-the-minute news, market, sports and headlines and program listings. Doesn't appear to
have an education or classroom section.
|
|
NICKELODEON
Great teacher site with special PreSchool and Elementary School Program Listings, Monthly Program
Calendar, Lesson Plan Index, and Classroom Resources..
|
|
PBS
Includes links to Programming and Specials, Teacher Source and PBS Kids link.
|
|
SCI-FI
Includes links to the OnAir Schedule and Lesson Guides as well as directions on how to tape programs
for classroom use.
|
|
THE WEATHER CHANNEL
Complete weather information is provided for the United States and for countries around the world.
This site includes Weather Education, The Weather Classroom and the Teacher's Lounge with
comprehensive resources for teaching and learning about weather |
|
A & E NETWORK
A & E is a blend of original, upscale programming featuring its original movies, intriguing
mysteries, engaging documentaries and Biography, A&E's signature program. You can link directly
to BIOGRAPHY programming at this site: http://www.Biography.com.
|
|
|
|
CNN
Links to the Newsroom, to Specials, to TNT and the CARTOON NETWORK. Thist site has Educator's
Guides and a Student News Page.
|
|
TEACHING CURRENT EVENTS USING CABLE TELEVISION
Good links for teaching current events... especially the Media Watch link that hightlights upcoming
programs of interest.
|
|
THE 100 MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN TV HISTORY
This is a great site showcasing 100 vivid moments from televisionÕs past, ranked from100 to 1. The site
gives a brief summary of each show included in this archive, and it includes everything from historical
events like the first walk on the moon to the best of I Love Lucy.
|
