Virtue Foundation Donates Digital Education Computer Station To Louisiana Children’s Museum To Encourage Children’s Use Of 21st Century Multimedia Tools To Support Their Dreams For The Future During Days of Hope program at Louisiana Children’s Museum, the Foundation collaborates with Louisiana Voices to present digital storytelling workshops for children that highlight Louisiana’s rich cultural history….
The Town Talk – April 19, 2008 There was no red carpet, but it was a screening party. Except, this screening party was in the virtual world. All viewers were represented by avatars or virtual characters. Bolton High School students gathered Friday with Virtue Foundation and The N, Nickelodeon’s 24-hour youth station, and officials online…
Three Louisiana High School Students Win Documentary Film Competition NEW YORK, April 17, 2008 – The Virtue Foundation Louisiana Education Initiative will celebrate three winning documentary film shorts, which will premiere online on The-N.com’s broadband media player, The Click on Friday, April 18. The shorts were shot and created by local Louisiana high school students…
Rachael DeWorth, Margaux Jurgensen and Anna Yancey knew Nickelodeon was filming them. The three Bolton High School students also knew they were finalists in a video contest by the Virtue Foundation. What they didn’t know was that they are the only finalists in the contest. “We are it?,” Anna asked her teacher, Dawayna Sanders. “You…
The pervasive reality of globalization in the 21st century has brought together people of diverse backgrounds and cultures, as rapid advances in technology and communications continue to eliminate geographic borders and enhance the quality of our lives. To fully harness the advantages and opportunities afforded by globalization, we must invest in education of our youth…
By Mandy M. Goodnight Elisha Taylor sat with her son, Carl Taylor III, as he typed on a laptop computer. “I could never have imagined this,” the mother said. “I didn’t have this when I was here.” Taylor’s son is one of the Bolton High School students being issued a computer instead of textbooks this…
Virtue Foundation Louisiana Education Initiative Hosts Digital Teaching Training with McNeese State University and University of California, Berkeley for Cameron and Vermillion Parish Teachers Affected by Rita on July 19-20, 2007 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The conference is designed to provide state-of-the-art digital teaching skills to teachers and other educational stakeholders participating in the Virtue…
Virtue Foundation Hosts Digital Teaching Conference with University of California, Berkeley and the University of New Orleans on May 18, 2007 in New Orleans. The conference is designed to provide state-of-the-art digital teaching skills to teachers and other educational stakeholders, who are participating in the Virtue Foundation Katrina Education Initiative, a technology-enabled educational pilot initiative…
Virtue Foundation hosts a Digital Teaching Professional Development Conference in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of New Orleans for teachers in 9 schools districts affected by Katrina and Rita.
Virtue Foundation Katrina Education Initiative provides 660 Apple notebook computers and Microsoft software licenses to hurricane-affected schools