ALBANY, NY
– New York’s public broadcasting stations have entered
into a partnership that will provide broadband digital
video resources to students and educators throughout the
state. In a two-year agreement announced recently by
the Association of Public Broadcasting Stations of New
York State and Clearvue & SVE, a business unit of
Discovery Education, will supply content for New York
Public Television’s EdVideo Online service to schools.
This service empowers educators and students to search
video and multi-media resources to meet immediate
educational needs. The streaming/downloading
service provides crucial access to content enrichment
and assists teachers in teaching to state learning
standards.
The
EdVideo Online service features 3,200 full length
videos, nearly 21,000 curriculum correlated video
segments, 6,000 audio files, 26,000 photographs,
animations and illustrations, 5,000 print resources, a
databank of 15,500 quiz questions, 1,000 pre-made
quizzes, and new features like podcasting. Offered
through Clearvue & SVE’s PowerMediaPlus, the service
includes content from some of the world’s best
educational content providers. In addition, New
York State schools will have access to landmark PBS
content, including, THE CIVIL WAR, LEWIS & CLARK, JAZZ,
and other landmark Ken Burns productions, FREEDOM: A
HISTORY OF US, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, CYBERCHASE, and
hundreds of other titles. Adult Education programs
like GED Connections and Workplace Essential Skills are
also included in EdVideo Online. The agreement also
gives students access to the service outside school.
Robert Daino of the Association of Public Broadcasting
Stations of New York State said, “This new agreement
preserves the availability of innovative instructional
technologies for New York schools and meets the mission
of New York Public Television to provide educational
content that helps our schools and students excel.”
Over the past four years, New York State Public
Television’s EdVideo Online has made digital media
available for lesson planning and instruction from
Discovery Education’s unitedstreaming service.
That content will be replaced by the new service.
EdVideo Online, NY Public Television, and Discovery
Education are working together to ensure a smooth
transition for users. As part of this
effort, Discovery Education has agreed to preserve
users’ access to previously downloaded materials and
users’ ability to stream unitedstreaming content
through October 31, 2006.
New York State’s nine public television stations include
Mountain Lake PBS Plattsburgh; Thirteen/WNET New York
City; WCNY Syracuse; WLIW Long Island; WMHT Capital
Region; WNED’s ThinkBright Buffalo; WPBS-TV Watertown;
WSKG Binghamton; and WXXI Rochester. Each public
television station will provide the EdVideo Online
service via links from its web site.
Major support for EdVideo Online is provided by the New
York Lottery. Contact your local public television
station,
www.tv_station.htm for more
information on EdVideo Online and the new service.
