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Money Smart Week Wisconsin

Mark Your Calendars!
October 7-13, 2007, is Money Smart Week Wisconsin, a public awareness initiative intended to help all Wisconsin residents increase their financial knowledge.
In support of Wisconsin Money Smart Week, the Educational Communications Board is proud to
air a number of programs educators can use to bring awareness of financial literacy to their students. Don’t miss the following programs that air during Wisconsin Smart Money Week! (For broadcast dates and times, visit http://explore.ecb.org/itv, or refer to your Parade of Programs.)

Financial Fitness - This 4-part series shares strategies for staying financially fit. Grades 9-12

The ‘E’ in Me - The Entrepreneur in You With this series, students assess their financial
potential to start a business. Grades 9-12

What’s Up in Finance?* This special half-hour program is a reality show in which young people are challenged to tackle money matters and plan for financial security.
For teens. 1:00-1:30 a.m., Friday, October 12, 2007.

*Special program. Not listed in the 2007-08 Parade of Programs.
For more information on Money Smart Week Wisconsinsm, visit www.moneysmartwi.org.

For more information contact Marta Bechtol, Director of School Services and Instructional Programs Development at (608)264-9733; e-mail: mbechtol@ecb.state.wi.us.

ECB Presents at WEAC

Improve your teaching strategies using ECB resources.

This one-hour presentation at the 2007 WEAC Convention on October 26-27, will take you on a whirlwind tour of all the free resources the ECB has to offer.
Web sites, multimedia, and new series will be discussed.

Interconnect2.0, Teacher’s Domain, Digital Parade…and the latest programming from the ECB! Learn more about the ECB’s educational multimedia resources!

Presentation by: Kurt Griesemer/Kristin Leglar, ECB Friday, October 26, 2007 9:00-10:15 am
Room: Midwest—102D 2007 WEAC Conference Midwest Airlines Center, Milwaukee, WI.

SOUND~WAVES Wisconsin Youth Radio Festival

Calling all Parents and Teachers!

Earning statewide recognition, exploring creativity and talent, learning about the varied aspects of mass communication, simply having fun—these are just some of the reasons that students around Wisconsin enter the Soundwaves Youth Radio Festival each year.

The entry deadline for this year is January 31, 2008. And as always, the Educational Communications Board and Wisconsin Public Radio await the many creative entries that students submit. Winning entries will be awarded $100 cash and the opportunity to go to Wisconsin Public Radio's Madison studios to re-create their program with the help of professional staff.
Become a sponsoring adult and help make the Soundwaves Youth Radio Festival a memorable experience for the students in your school!

SoundWaves~Wisconsin Youth Radio Festival gives Wisconsin schoolchildren in grades 3 through 12 a chance to experiment with the universal medium of radio and its elements. For complete information on the upcoming 2007 SoundWaves~Wisconsin Youth Radio Festival, visit http://www.ecb.org/soundwaves/index.htm.

Now is the right time to get your students involved!

Enter online!

New Programs for 2007-08!

Find them online at http://explore.ecb.org/itv/

Look out for these new programs airing on your local Wisconsin Public Television station.
All broadcast dates and times can be found online at http://explore.ecb.org/itv/ or in the
2007-08 Parade of Programs.

Getting to Know…All About Art (gr. K-4)
Financial Fitness (gr. 9-12)
Connect with Kids at Risk (gr. 7-12)
My Changing Life (gr. 4-8)
The Math Series (gr. 6-9)
Biological Classification (gr. 7-10)
Green Means 1 & 2 (gr. 5-12)
Green Means 3 (gr. 5-12)
SpaceFiles (gr. 6-12)
My Neighborhood/My Community (gr. K-5)
WorldQuest (gr. 6-12)
Fokus Deutsch (gr. 7-12)

Wired Science - New website launches October 1st!

WIRED SCIENCE, the next-generation science and technology series, premiering October 3rd,
will expand its innovative television content beyond the broadcast with a rich and engaging website. The WIRED SCIENCE online destination will feature user-generated content, video clips, widgets, and at-home experiments that bring viewers into the action, and help build an online community of science enthusiasts and WIRED SCIENCE fans.

The website launches on October 1, and here are a few of the features you will find at www.pbs.org/wiredscience:

• Online video: Segments from the TV episodes (field and in-studio) will be streamed on the
site, and select clips will be distributed around the web via video-sharing platforms such as YouTube.

• Expanded science: Original articles, interactive graphics and video will accompany WIRED SCIENCE stories.

• Internet mining: Our WIRED SCIENCE writers and editors navigate the web to find the most fascinating, informative sites.

• Wired Science blog: Commentary from some of the leading science bloggers, including dispatches from a team of researchers in Antarctica. Plus posts from reporters, hosts and producers, offering insider perspectives on the making of WIRED SCIENCE.

• WiSci Challenge: Call-outs to viewers to try their hands at some of the experiments seen on WIRED SCIENCE.

• Community: Viewers can post comments on the site and have discussions with other viewers about WIRED SCIENCE.

• WiSci Student Video Contest: For high school students who can turn a cool scientific principle into a cool video. Winners receive modest cash awards as do the participating schools.

• Classroom Science Activities: A collection of active science learning practices from the WIRED SCIENCE contributing and guest teachers – each based on WIRED SCIENCE episodes.

• Widgets: The creation of widgets that will be distributed throughout station sites and social media platforms, including Facebook.

• Kudos: Each week, WIRED SCIENCE will honor both a “Teacher of the Week” and “Student
of the Week” on the website. Wired Science is working with a panel of high school teachers
from across the U.S. led by Michael Lampert, a Calculus, Astronomy, ESL, and Microelectronics Teacher at West Salem High School in Salem, Oregon. Each high school teacher involved on the panel teaches a different field of science. These fields include chemistry, biology, math, physics, engineering, and computer science.

Digital TV Explained

Making the Switch to Digital TV—Will your School be Ready? (PDF Download)

On February 18, 2009, all television broadcast in the United States will become digital.
The benefits of this transition will bring improved sound and picture quality, and ultimately a more efficient use of broadcast ‘space.’

For you and your school district, this means better quality, more choices, and more control over your television. Go to www.dtv.gov and www.dtvtransition.org for more information on this transition.

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