[LM_NET] FCC National Broadband Education

[Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG>]

Hi to my favorite library media specialists. I just received this notice:

The FCC is holding kickoff of the FCC¹s National Broadband Plan Education
workshop.  The workshop will held on August 20th at 1:00 pm Eastern (10:00
am Pacific) at the FCC headquarters in Washington, DC. The event will cover
topics ranging from e-rate reform to stimulating innovation in educational
research.

The event will be broadcast live via WebEx, Second Life, and web-based video
feed, and interested participants will be able to submit questions to the
panelists via WebEx, Second Life, and Twitter.  The Education team is also
soliciting ideas for the Plan via Ideascale at
http://usbroadband4ed.ideascale.com/.  Information about the Workshop
(including video and Twitter feed info) can be found at
http://broadband.gov/ws_education.html (WebEx video feed is confirmed, FCC
is working on a Quicktime feed as well, which will be posted closer to the
event date). 

Participants interested in attending in person can register online at
http://broadband.gov/workshops/registration.htm?wsid=13, and participants
interested in attending via WebEx can register online at
https://fccevents.webex.com/fccevents/onstage/g.php?p=0&t=m
<https://fccevents.webex.com/fccevents/onstage/g.php?p=0&amp;t=m> .

Please distribute this invitation to any other groups.

In particular, posting your ideas for how to use broadband to change and
improve education and student achievement on
http://usbroadband4ed.ideascale.com/ could help change the national dialog.


I just posted something on their site. It looks like they have very few
participants. Not sure why the FCC is responsible for planning around
education - but apparently they are. I would strongly encourage library
media specialists to actively participate. It is my perspective that your
professional expertise is MOST important. So I encourage you to participate.

Nancy


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