Education ``SWAT'' Team Formed by Online Learning Company, Kiko.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2000 Calling on an elite group of educators from around the country, Kiko (Knowledge In/Knowledge Out), the online teaching and learning community, has brought together for the first time its educational "SWAT" team. The team will work side-by-side with technology experts as they build authoring tools that will allow teachers and others who are not in classrooms full time to create compelling lessons for children in K-12. The team was assembled by Peggy O'Brien, Kiko's chief learning officer and former vice president of education for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting public broadcasting: see broadcasting. . "We selected people whose broad vision, collective wisdom and concrete suggestions will help us better fulfill the enormous educational potential of Kiko," O'Brien stated. "This is a working, multi-talented team that is in the trenches with us." The "SWAT" team members are: -- Janet Coffey, teacher and PhD candidate in the Science Education Program, Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. -- Nancy Finkelstein, director of education, Science Media Group, Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics astrophysics, application of the theories and methods of physics to the study of stellar structure, stellar evolution, the origin of the solar system, and related problems of cosmology. Laboratory -- Michael LoMonico, teacher at Farmingdale (NY) High School and editor of Shakespeare Magazine -- Christine Rath rath (rä, räth), circular hill fort protected by earthworks, used by the ancient Irish in the pre-Christian era as a retreat in time of danger. , superintendent of schools, Concord, New Hampshire -- Faith Schullstrom, former executive director of National Council of Teachers of English -- Joe Scotese, teacher at Whitney Young High School Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, (commonly known as Whitney Young), is a highly selective-enrollment Chicago public school that opened its doors to students on September 3, 1975 as the city's first public magnet high school. , Chicago Public Schools -- Mark Vineis, president, Mondo mon·do Slang adj. Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings. adv. Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake. Publishing, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY They made recommendations about institutes for teachers, specific tools, and the development of Kiko lessons such as these that can be found at www.kiko.com/jscotese/meaning-poetry---literal-before-figurative and http://www.kiko.com/hphan/position-on-tolerance. About Kiko Inc. Kiko, founded Aug. 1999 by former leadership from Cisco and GeoCities, consists of handpicked education, Internet and business talent who are dedicated to promoting the power of teaching, learning and personal publishing. Kiko offers publishing tools and templates that help teachers and others build lessons for its free Global Learning Library. The vision of the company is based on the fact that everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn. |
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