Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Are you ready for a change of scenery?  How about a trip around the world?  And all from the comfy convenience of your computer.  Set sail in a virtual, around-the-world sailboat race with WINDWARD, Cable in the Classroom’s newest demonstration of the power of broadband for teaching and learning.  No passport or immunizations needed, but you will learn something about sailing and weather along the way.

Targeted to middle school students interested in learning more about the science of weather - and developed in cooperation with the Discovery Channel, the Weather Channel, and NASA - Windward is the third in the series of free, online learning applications built to demonstrate some of what is possible with interactive, online content.

For those interested in exploring the wider implications of Cable in the Classroom’s broadband demonstrations, read this article appearing in the Fall 2005 edition of Threshold (on the future of the textbook in a digital age), produced in partnership with the Consortium for School Networking.