Each Partner Plays a Different Role
Goals Are the Same

Time Warner Cable - www.twalbany.com  operates one of the most sophisticated cable systems in the nation and is home to NY's first two-way digital network.  The system provide high speed on-line access for residential customers, schools and businesses; and Digital Cable with 240 cable channels, including interactive programming guides and popular award-winning locally produced programming.  The Division serves more than 300,000 customers in and around Albany, Troy, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Glens Falls, Schenectady, Amsterdam and Gloversville/Johntown NY as well as Pittsfield and Athol, MA.

TWC ha an established history of partnering with other area educational institutions, such as Hudson Valley Community College to successfully implement and maintain distance-learning programs that connect high school students at various locations to college level instruction.

TWC provides free monthly cable, information and teacher training tools to more than 370 schools in the communities that we serve.  To assist educators in locating the designated educational programming offered on cable television, TWC provides a free monthly issue of Cable in the Classroom magazine as well as TWC Education Connection.  TWC also provides each accredited K-12 public and private school in its service area, free cable modems and free access to Road Runner and the Internet for educational purposes.

Project VIEW, Schenectady City School District  -  www.projectview.org  |  www.schenctady.k12.ny.us  Project VIEW currently has the infrastructure in place to reach over 500 schools within New York State.  SCSD has worked hard to incorporate videoconferencing within its own schools, but Project VIEW grant and the technology provided by TWC expand the project's capability and will make it accessible in other school districts.  Project VIEW continue to bring hundreds of students together to learn, share, and interact with each other.

Project VIEW, into the fourth funding year, has already developed relationship with nationally recognized content providers including museums and zoos.  The VIEW team, teachers and content providers collaborate to develop dynamic curriculum and interactive content that is delivered. 

A crucial component of Project VIEW is train teachers to integrate videoconferencing into the curriculum and to continue to develop resources, while ensuring accessibility and adaptability to classrooms throughout the nation.

C-SPAN Cable Network - www.c-span.org  C-SPAN brings programming, its Web sites, professional education staff, network of teacher users, School Bus and other tools to the project.  C-SPAN offers a wide-variety of programming opportunities, archives and Web-based resources, liberal copyright policy, Experience working with educators and students, and an education studio for videoconferencing.

C-SPAN School Bus is a mobile production studio and presentation space.   The bus includes a wide variety of programming from three cable television networks, extensive online archives, as well as programs from the videotape archive.  Presentations can be geared to teachers or students using C-SPAN clips and cameras to offer additional information about content.

C-SPAN's primary mission is to provide viewers with access to forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided. 

In addition to the online program archives & teacher resources, the C-SPAN Websites allow viewers to watch any C-SPAN network live, search for archived programming, and participate in online chat discussions.