Copyright issues will be discussed later in the lesson. Simple, use your Cable in the Classroom magazine , found in the Bruner Media Center, which offers detailed listings of educational programming, sorted by subject area, plus information on copyright clearance, support materials, videotapes available for purchase and more. Now that you know a little more about Cable in the Classroom , lets take a closer look at some of the television programmers who have pledged to offer commercial-free education programming with liberal copyright clearances. We will look at only five programmers. Once you have learned how to use the Internet more proficiently, you will be able to find the other programmers on your own.
Educators can record the program using a VCR and utilize the program anytime in their curriculum.
A daily classroom guide, designed by professional educators, is available through the Internet, to use with each day's program. Also, an on-line database contains past program guides, allowing educators to search previous guides to locate a specific topic of interest or easily follow unfolding news events. Each weekday, local PTV public television stations broadcast a full line up of PBS children's series - the educational, nonviolent, noncommercial programming that parents have come to trust. Each PTV public television station, working with local community organizations and social service agencies, participates in an ongoing PTV outreach effort to teach parents and childcare providers how to use public television as a teaching tool. The materials and training suggest activities that caregivers can engage in with children to reinforce the educational concepts and to extend the value of what they watch, to what they do.