To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Power to Learn, Cablevision has announced “The Power to Learn Optimum Technology Makeover” essay contest. Families are invited to submit an essay of 500 words or less focused on technology’s significant impact on learning, both at home and at school. Five families in Cablevision’s service area will win the Grand Prize of a complete home technology makeover that includes 10 prizes to celebrate 10 years, including a 42″ HDTV, an Apple MacBook, an iPod touch and much more.
Essays will be judged equally on originality, practicality and creativity by a panel of judges.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY: Void where prohibited. Contest begins 3/23/09 and ends 5/4/09. Open to legal U.S. Residents of NY, NJ, CT, or PA and be 18 years or older.
Must be an Optimum Online subscriber and have at least one child in household in grades K-12. Other restrictions may apply Please visit the site for more details.
Looking for some new tech tools for your school? Enter daily to win a wireless lab from CDWG. Click here to register.
Discovery Education and the Association of Public Broadcasting Stations of New York (APBS) have announced that they have renewed their partnership to deliver PowerMediaPlus, a video-based online education service, to educators and students across much of New York State. The one-year agreement, through June 2010 ensures that thousands of schools and over a million kids will have access to the digital resources provided through this service.
Contact your local public television station for more information on EdVideo Online. To find your local station, visit www.tv_station.htm. For more information on PowerMediaPlus or any other Discovery Education service, please visit www.DiscoveryEducation.com or call 800-323-9084.
Are you looking for a way to bring new technology equipment to your school or classroom? Having trouble figuring out a way to get the school to pay for it? Try Funding Factory. I have been using them for several years and love them. Here’s the deal. Ask people to donate old cell phones and used ink cartridges. You ship them in on behalf of your class or school. You earn free points for technology. Yes, shop off the CDG website. I got free scanners for my school one year. Yes, 8 for free. Can’t get much better than that.
The reason I’m blogging this is I just got a memory card for the latest Cannon digital camera we earned in June at a sale recently. I realized other DEN members might be interested in this if you haven’t already signed up. So I figured I’d take a minute to share. Maybe you are like me and looking for ideas for September while it is still August and I have “free time”. God, I love that term…
Check out: http://www.fundingfactory.com/fundraiser-2200.aspx for more information.
~Jeannine
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