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Subscriber Spotlight – K-12 “ Seeing the World from a Virtual Standpoint”

For the students in Kevin Hackney’s World History, World Culture, and AP Art History classes at Egg Township High School in Egg Township, NJ, NBC Learn videos take them where most have never been. “We can’t go to the great museums or archaeological sites on a field trip,” Hackney says, “but we can see them from a virtual standpoint.”
NBC Learn Subscriber Spotlight: 4th Graders Blog About Current Events

It happens every week in Turquoise Cannon’s 4th grade class at the Bates Academy, a school for gifted and talented students in Detroit, MI: her 35 students watch a selected Current Events video on NBC Learn, then blog their responses to Mrs. Cannon’s questions and at least one classmate’s response.
User Spotlight: Abu Dhabi University’s Use of NBC Learn for ELL/ELP

Abu Dhabi University opened in September of 2003 with only 1,000 students. Now, ten years later, more than 4,300 students – representing more than 55 different nationalities – are enrolled in the University’s two campuses in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.
Subscriber Spotlight — K-12: "30 kids in front of 30 computers for 45 minutes, focused and in silence — that's pretty unusual."

Timothy Thomas, the Library Media Specialist at the Hereford Middle School in Baltimore County, MD, is describing 8th graders using NBC Learn to research their oral history projects.
Subscriber Spotlight — K-12: "I Challenge My Students To Be History Detectives"

Jon Carl, a U.S. History teacher at FJ Reitz High School in Evansville, Indiana, starts his unit on The Great Depression by asking his students to do a form of "cold case" investigation...
Subscriber Spotlight — Higher Ed: "NBC Learn Shows Real-World Examples of Business Decisions"

Business in the 21st century is complex, global, and challenging. "My objective is to emphasize that business problems have many dimensions"...