K12> Educational CyberPlayGround Visits Brimm Medical Arts High School

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Net Happenings - From Educational CyberPlayGround
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For Immediate Release
December 2, 2003
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/press.html

Educational CyberPlayGround Visits Brimm Medical Arts High School

PHILADELPHIA -- The Educational CyberPlayGround plans to launch the
National Children's Folksong Repository
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Repository/NCFR.html
described as a "Public Folklore Project built by the children of the United
States an historic online Repository of children's songs and chants."

Ellis said "Everyone can help create and capture our collective heritage in
the nation's online archive called the National Children's Folksong
Repository."

In that effort Dr. Clayton, Principal of Brimm Medical Arts High School, in
Camden, NJ
http://www.camden.k12.nj.us/S/MAHS/home.html
is excited that his Vocal Music Teacher Ms. Carla L. Benson a Ring Leader
on the ECP site
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Ringleaders/carlabenson.html
integrates literacy, music, and technology into her classroom.

Ms. Benson's  also known as "The First Lady of Philadelphia Soul" and
currently the Section Leader for the Background Vocalists featured on stage
and screen with 2 time Grammy winners "The Funk Brothers" "Standing In The
Shadows of Motown" Movie and World Tour 2001- 2003.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Stars/funkbrothers.html

"Ms. Benson brings over thirty years of professional studio and stage
performance experience to the classroom and to the National Children's
Folksong Repository. Benson's students had the opportunity to shine when
the Educational CyberPlayGround filmed her students on November 18th, 2003.
Benson said, "Like Standing in the Shadows of Motown there is an
opportunity to recognize the nation's unknown culture makers, who are, our
children."

Students used computers to make and upload a free webpages for the Funk
Brothers Webquest, explored why music makes you smarter, then recorded and
uploaded their songs using The National Children's Folksong Repository
Project without leaving their cultural identity behind.

Karen Ellis founded the Educational CyberPlayGround [ECP]
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com that provides a community for intuitive
learners, adult learners, and educators working with students on the Web
and in classrooms. Using her experiences teaching music, dance, and
elementary education to young people in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Ellis set
up a learning site that celebrates diversity in students' backgrounds while
"highlighting the variety in students' preferred approaches to learning."

When you access her award-winning site, you can choose the map that matches
your learning style (intuitive, logical, or visual) by clicking on the
"search this site" pull-down menu. Explore playful educational approaches
to music, arts, literacy, and technology.

The mysterious quality that defines the folk song apart from other forms of
music lies in the means by which the song is preserved over time and
transmitted in space from author to audience.

Folk songs have lasted on the playground in which culture is relatively
homogeneous and customs are shared across class and ethnic lines. This is
our shared folk culture.

Children located within a school, after school program, at home, hospital,
neighborhood library, Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA, Technology Learning
Centers; Community Technology Centers, are all able to submit their songs
to the National Children's Folksong Repository.

The New York Times Learning Network selected the Educational
CyberPlayGround as its "Site of the Day."

The Times noted that the site provides opportunities for parents, teachers,
and librarians, even with limited online experience, to learn how to use
the World Wide Web to provide more effective teaching.

USA Today in January 2000 selected the Educational CyberPlayGround as one
of its "Best Bets for Educators." The Educational CyberPlayGround was also
a USA Today "Hot Site," in both its online and print editions, and MSNBC
News online named the portal as a "Web Pick."

The site includes an educational vendor directory to aid users in locating
goods and access to "Ring Leaders," experts in their fields who will assist
site users.


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