About [ECP] Educational Cyberplayground, Inc.™

FOUNDED BY KAREN ELLIS    /    RESUMÈ

 

MISSION STATEMENT

 

Our Trancendent Purpose:
Everything we do, we believe in challenging the staus quo, we believe in showing the big picture. The way we challenge the status quo is by using disruptive transdisciplinary thought. [ IEC ]

Bringing the arts to life on the Web, for all ages.
The Educational CyberPlayGround provides the public, teachers, administrators, policy makers, parents, librarians, and home schoolers a "webliography" of links to educational resources in a wide range of subjects.

Focus on Folk Arts In Education:
Improving literacy through arts education and advocacy by providing collaborative and interdisciplinary resources for understanding the universal laws of perception, underlying the rhythms of both speech and music; world culture and our national culture.

Our Heart Work:
Teach Reading Using Playground Game Songs
National Children's Folksong Repository reflects Karen Ellis' continuing emphasis on linking local culture, arts, people, organizations, literacy, music technology and education.
National Children's Folksong Repository NCFR
Integrate, Literacy Music and Technology into the classroom. Use the technology to collect Children's poety, nursery rhymes, clap pattern chants and songs, playground game songs then have the kids add them to the NCFR database. Use this content in a reading curriculum that will raise students grade level by years in just a few months.
1977 The original research showed that students who were taught to read using playground game songs successfully raised their reading level and spelling levels by a few years in a few months.
The Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. website was created to provide all the hard science that proves why this simple successful approach works.
2010 Research Confirms original findings that Motor And Cognitive Skills Are Improved By Hand-Clapping Songs.

CHRONOLOGY FAST FACTS

 

The freemium model — that is us, we have been offering a free service online since 1996. We only charge for things that are hard to do. The hours, months, and years of research we have been able to put together, showing the history and the connections which reveals the big picture, giving a true perspective. We have tried to do our best, to create something great, and be truly transparent. Except for Consumer Reportsthe benchmark of truth tellers, pundits mean less than ever before. We hope you will be on our side, support us, link to us, and subscribe.

Karen Ellis Online since 1991
1991 BBS participation, archiving K12 email
1996 Launched Guavaberry Books website
1999 Launched ECP 1,500 Pages 6,000 Links
2004 ECP has over 200,000 Page Views a month;
2005 ECP breaks the 2 million visitors a year;
2006 ECP has over 425,000 Page Views in January;
2006 Publishing print and online material for 10 years
2007 Start Publishing the Educational CyberPlayGround Blog
2009 NetHappenings Mailing List is 20 Years old! and we start Twitter.com/cyberplayground +

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NEWSPAPERS, KUDOS & TESTIMONIALS

 

Real Audio Download Comcast NewsMakers TV Interview with Karen Ellis from 2000 or 2001
Comcast is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Takes about 10 minutes to download with a 28.8 connection.

COMMUNITY

11,000 MAILING LIST SUBSCRIBERS

NET HAPPENINGS the oldest K-12 Education Mailing List on the Internet copyright 1989.

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MASTER REGISTRY OF
K-12 SCHOOL SITES

 

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A PLACE FOR NEWBIES

 

REASONS TO PLAY HERE
The Educational CyberPlayGround began in 1997 when I recognized the need and provided a place newbies to start. The focus was always professional development and still is. It was also a great place to house the custom curriculum delivered by the Internet, and a place for all of us to play in cyberspace. That's where I got the idea of a CyberPlayGround, no boundaries, no walls, where Adults can come to play. This is the place for Life Long Learners.

RINGLEADERS

 

EDUCATION EXPERTS WHO ARE VOLUNTEER RINGLEADERS ON THE PLAYGROUND

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Cul De Sac Area of Online Curriculum

 

The Educational CyberPlayGround offers a interdisciplinary point of view, using the Internet to deliver online Curriculum. It is my pleasure to help meet the K-12 educational needs of students and teachers nationwide and to offer free information about the internet for the general public. This site provides Teachers, Parents, Librarians, Home Schoolers and Regular Folks a cybrarians webliography of links to educational resources in the Arts, Music, Literacy, Linguistics, Science, Technology, Social Studies, and Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum.

What are the Benefits of using Online Curriculum?

When using The Educational CyberPlayGround teachers can customize resources to incorporate any of the teaching materials already in their classrooms. We deliver online curriculum through the Internet, and so we are able to continually add new content and keep it current.

About The Education Vendor Directory

 

The ECP is a specialty portal that is focused on a specific topic - Education. Some analysts are convinced that the large, general portals' services are becoming indistinguishable from each other and soon will be ghost towns as people flock to specialty sites that cater to individual interests. A unique database just for the business of Education. We offer many valuable services that Internet travelers cannot get off-line -- better deals, greater convenience, greater ease of use, and you can list your service or product for free.

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