Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy explores the development of knowledge communities - safe spaces on the educational landscape - where research and professional development with literacy teachers and writers can unfurl.

Developing Knowledge Communities through Partnerships for Literacy explores the development of knowledge communities - safe spaces on the educational landscape - where research and professional development with literacy teachers and writers can unfurl.

HUD is working to nurture the unique contributions that faculty & students can make to their urban communities. This handbook offers examples of successful collaboration in university-community partnerships, cites lessons learned from these experiences, & serves as a guide for institutions of higher education interested in forming or expanding partnerships with community development corporations. This handbook documents initiatives to build partnerships to more effectively plan & carry out projects to improve the neighborhoods they share. It is a guide for higher educational institutions considering entering or expanding collaborative relationships.

Defining the nature and significance of the learning community for the learning society, this work shows how schools have the potential to become role models for society and its institutions as a whole. It is intended for policy makers, researchers, sociologists, teachers and educational managers.

This report studies the video marketing and production practices of over 60 corporate organizations, big and small, focusing on the online venues these organizations explore in disseminating their videos and the strategies employed in developing, tracking, and evaluating their video advertising efforts. Survey data details budgetary allotments for the hiring of consultants as well as departmental staffing tendencies, video production statistics, and the overall effectiveness of video advertising vis-a-vis the most common forms of marketing. How many videos have these organizations produced over the last two years and how long are these videos? For which stages of video developmentfrom production to script-writing to metadata developmentdo these organizations seek the most help? Where and how do these organizations share their videos and how do they generate views? A wide range of file-sharing sites are covered, including YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, iTunes, Vimeo, and many more. The 179-page report presents data broken out by the age and corporate position of the respondent as well as by industry and company size, offering users a unique look at the video marketing techniques of a broad range of organizations. Represented industries include Technology, Finance, Consumer Marketing, Education, and Advertising, among others."