Blake: Work Priorities

Date: February 6, 2007
To: NEA College Affordability Group
From: Mark F. Smith, Organizational Specialist – Higher Education
Re: Update on NEA Participation in Campaign for College Affordability

By Stefanie Olsen
C|Net News

SAN FRANCISCO--Despite the fears that kids are leaving permanent digital footprints when they post personal information online, college students think it would be even weirder if someone didn't exist on the Web.

"It would concern me about their ability to use the computer. I haven't encountered something like that. Everyone in my generation (is) somehow, someway on the Internet," said Lorrie Ma, a 23-year-old junior in the undergraduate programs of mechanical engineering and marketing at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley.

In addition to customizing and printing a new set of GEM bookmarks for NEASP recruitment materials distribution (I should have new bookmarks in a few weeks)...

...we've added a direct access lesson plans search box to the student page (see link below). Thank you David Morris for helping me get this added!

Web site blurb:

Tools and Resources for NEA Student Members

Access The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Want access to thousands of educational resources? The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is a consortium effort to provide teachers with quality materials and tools found on federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. The Gateway offers:

• thousands of quality learning resources
• core content with learning resources from NASA, PBS, National Science Foundation, and over 700 other contributing education content providers
• 21st Century teaching tools, assessments, and professional development
• the Achievement Standards Network, a digitized version of every state's core academic standards

[Visit Link Here]

If you need an overview of The Gateway to 21st Century Materials take a look at this brief PowerPoint:

[click here]

[sent to State Education Editors]

NEA has partnered with the GEM Exchange, Gateway to Educational Materials, and JES & Co to support Gateway to 21st Century Skills, a website that combines state-of the art search technologies and a complete database of state academic standards for core subjects. The Gateway is your link to the resources you need to make learning meaningful and fun for your students.

College students, from left, Katie Ehlert, Lacey McMullen, Jessica Tobelmann and Amy Divine cheer for Sen. Barack Obama at a Facebook.com event.


Photo Credit: By Linda Davidson -- The Washington Post
Related Article: Young Voters Find Voice on Facebook, page A01

Site's Candidate Groups Are Grass-Roots Politics for the Web Generation

By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 17, 2007; A01

Late on the day that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, Farouk Olu Aregbe logged on to Facebook.com, the popular online community where college students post profiles, share photos and blog. On a whim he created a group called "One Million Strong for Barack."

"I remember thinking, there's got to be more supporters out there," said Farouk, 26, who advises student government at the University at Missouri at Columbia.

Delivered 1/2 day session on Organizing with Technology. Had terrific discussions with the 6 UniServ managers who were present. Used lots of examples of how we're engaging student population via social networking tools and other Web 2.0 applications.

Tomorrow I work with another group on Generational issues.

[see my presentation]

Gen Next discussion at National UniServ Managers conference...

[view presentation]

or

[view "How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics; A PORTRAIT OF “GENERATION NEXT” A Survey Conducted in Association with: The Generation Next Initiative and Documentary produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions]