The Team Approach to News Production, Field Production, and Post-Production. The CNN News Bureau gives high school and college students from around the world the opportunity to practice their journalistic skills with the guidance of professional editors and reporters. More than 60 schools have been certified since the program launched in 1998. Nearly 600 schools around the world including classrooms in 48 U.S. states and 37 countries have applied to participate. Designed for grades preK-2, the device teaches the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling, and word creation with six learning modes.
Students press letters to hear their sounds and to spell three-letter words.
A guiding voice helps students work independently or in small groups. The product includes a 110-page teacher's activity guide with 34 games designed for individual or small group activities. Also included are activity materials such as game boards and pieces, flash cards, bingo boards, number cubes, and headphones. The second edition of Technology Planning for Effective Teaching and Learning by Dr. Steven Baule provides guidelines, staff development plans, assessment forms, specifications, and policies designed to help reconcile all points of view within a school or a district. The book examines the organization of the planning team, vision statements, information gathering, planning, funding, policy issues, and the evaluation and assessment of the technology plan.