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New York Public Television Partnership Provides Digital Tools For Schools

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.