NBC News’ educational arm NBC Learn has launched iCue: part social network, part news source for students age 13 and up, built upon NBC’s vast video news archive…The “21st Century Classroom” is a major interest for NBC news, which in 2007 launched Archives on Demand –current and historic digital videos teachers can use for instructional purposes — which are available through a partnership with HotChalk, a library of teacher-contributed lesson plans and digital content for instructional usage, and Alloy Media’s ChannelOne, the 12-minute daily TV show, which has been available since 1989 to nearly 6 million middle- and high-school students in 8,000 schools.
Source: BetaNews
