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Welcome to VideoLink, a multimedia classroom tool that brings real-life, hands-on science into the curriculum.

VIDEOLINK IS:

Programming: VideoLink is an annual license to tape and archive in perpetuity 30 weeks of CNN's award-winning Science & Technology Week, a video update on the latest events and research breakthroughs in the physical, earth and life sciences and innovations in technology.

Support Material: VideoLink is access to weekly guides to support teachers as they put current science into the classroom and across the curriculum. Written by classroom teachers working in all areas of science, mathematics and technology from elementary to high school, guides present thought-provoking discussion and hands-on activities to develop creative problem solving, critical thinking and effective communication skills. On-line support includes an electronic database for easy access to archived video and classroom activities.

Professional Development: VideoLink is materials and tools to insure the integration of video across the curriculum and the implementation of media literacy. Quick-Start provides an on-site staff development package that addresses the specific use of VideoLink and CNN NEWSROOM, but its media tips and classroom implementation strategies support effective use of all video in the classroom.

The principle behind VideoLink is clear: television is an integral part of our culture and of our students' lives. Using the medium that informs the world to inform our students makes sense; motivating students through the sights and sounds of a "video field trip" brings the world into the classroom and gives life to textbook concepts.

This holds true especially in the science, mathematics or technology classroom, where text theory is put to a "reality check" in the real world laboratory: from rain forests to seismology center; from super conductors to radioactive waste dumps; from laboratory DNA models to high speed auto models. Students see that science is everywhere and scientists and mathematicians and those who invent and apply the new technologies are not necessarily white men in white lab coats working in white sterile labs.

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