The first annual PBS Teachers Innovation Awards will spotlight effective, innovative educators and their instructional techniques.
March 12 is the deadline for entries. Details are online at PBS.org/teachers/innovators/. Classroom teachers, library media specialists and homeschooling parents working with students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, can enter. Fifty winners, picked by master teachers who are PBS TeacherLine course facilitators, will be announced April 5, and 10 will attend PBS Showcase, May 17-20 in Austin, Texas. The other 40 will receive a bag of PBS videos “and much more.”
Hear about two adventures in multiplatform storytelling from Makers’ Quest 2.0 producers in a webinar Wednesday, Feb. 10.
The Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) and the National Center for Media Engagement will the webinar, 2-3 p.m. Eastern time. Speakers; AIR Executive Director Sue Schardt, Kara Oehler from the “Mapping Main Street” project and Jenny Asarnow of Seattle’s KUOW-FM, creator of the urban art installation “The Corner: 23rd and Union.” Register online.
There’s time remaining to enter the National Association of Black Journalists awards competition. Salute to Excellence Awards for TV, radio and digital media work are given in dozens of categories. Entries are due Feb. 19. Contact: NABJ.org/awards/excellence.
The Organization of News Ombudsmen says its recently relaunched website is an unbiased news source. The new site, announced by former NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin, will feature articles by .... let’s see ... ombudsmen! Events where you can meet . . . ombudsmen! Opportunities to connect with . . . ombudsmen, and join the Organization of News ... Ombudsmen! Go to newsombudsmen.org.
CPB schedules some training sessions for financial officers. Public Broadcasting Financial Management Association posted a revised schedule going into 2010, with more than a dozen webinars and on-site sessions in December and more than a dozen more in January.
PBS has scheduled its annual invitation-only PBS Content Summit for major producers and some station reps. It’ll be Jan. 19-20 at PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va. The confab will take its cues from “a new PBS strategic plan that calls for a new approach to primetime and major initiatives underway, particularly in new media, we think it is important to engage in a conversation about how new strategiew will affect producers.”
Current offers online feed of pubcasting calendar. Readers can now automatically integrate a calendar of public broadcasting’s national events into their own online calendars. Current and the National Educational Telecommunications Association will compile the calendar and offer it on their websites. Current posts it at Current.org/calendar. ¶
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