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The 2008 election cycle has already begun, so it's time to start thinking about how to use the election season as a way to engage students in learning about our political system. For this episode [MP3, 15MB], Cable in the Classroom executive director, Dr. Helen Soulé, discusses cable’s exciting historic, civic and news resources available to teachers and students with three cable executives: Pamela Gentry, Senior Political Producer, BET News Washington BureauDr. Libby O’Connell, Chief Historian & Senior Vice President, Corporate Outreach, A&E Television NetworksJoanne Wheeler, Vice President, Education Relations, C-SPANAnd, for those looking for more information about the web resources mentioned in this episode, please be sure to visit: The History of U.S. Presidential Elections, a free History Channel resource that explores the origins of the U.S. electoral system and looks at some famous presidential contests over the yearsC-SPAN Classroom, which offers free resources for teaching civics and U.S. governmentCampaign Network, which offers video, news, and analysis on the 2008 presidential race from C-SPAN and Congressional QuarterlyeLECTIONS: Your Adventure in Politics, a free, nonpartisan election simulation game - suitable for use in the classroom - developed by Cable in the Classroom in partnership with CNN and The History Channel.Finally, for those interested in the state of civic education in our nation's schools, be sure to peruse the fall 2004 edition of Threshold, produced in partnership with the National Council for the Social Studies. UPDATE (3/20): Be sure not to miss C-SPAN's new Campaign 2008 Bus! Technorati tags: BET, AETN, History Channel, C-SPAN, C-SPAN classroom, election, president, politics, current-events, civics, CIC, Cable in the Classroom, tv, school

Recently, Dr. Scott McLeod, Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota sat down with Colleen Needles, the host of Comcast Newsmakers (Twin Cities Region, MN edition), to discuss his work as Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). In this brief but wide ranging interview [MP3, 6MB], which aired on CNN Headline News, Dr. McLeod shares his views on what will be necessary to ensure that school leaders can survive and even thrive in the fast changing, technologically-rich era in which we are all living. For more on Dr. McLeod's views about the future of school leadership and education, be sure to visit his award-winning blog, Dangerously Irrelevant. Technorati tags: CASTLE, McLeod, technology leadership, dangerously irrelevant, Comcast, education, Minnesota, CIC, Cable in the Classroom