David Couch at KET
Associate Commissioner David Couch, head of the Office of Education Technology at KDE, held his monthly live Webcast for district technology leaders in the new KET Media Lab in Lexington. The Media Lab is designed to train Kentucky teachers in multimedia production.
KET Executive Director Mac Wall and other KET staff joined the associate commissioner for the Webcast. The program included a special recognition of AT&T for the generous grant that funded the new lab.
KEM Student Accounts
Discovery Education recently intiated changes that will affect all KET EncycloMedia student accounts to conform to the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Please download this PowerPoint slide show to learn about the changes, how teachers can utilize the My Classrooms feature and assign content to their students, and how KET EncycloMedia administrators can create student accounts on a school- or district-wide level.
88 Keys, 300 Years
Kentucky Muse: Eighty-Eight Keys, Three Hundred Years offers a musical history of the piano. Dr. Diane Earle's performance of an array of piano pieces is interspersed with information about the instrument and those who have composed for it. There's additional information at the Web site including PianoPedia, which features an explanation of how the piano works plus trivia and quotes. View the full broadcast schedule.








