http://joyceishere.com sex education Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:57:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RH Reality Check recently announced the winner of its Fresh Focus Video Contest in which participants submitted videos about ways to make sex education more interesting in the future.  You can view my previous post about the call for entries and check out the winners.  Enjoy! http://joyceishere.com/2008/01/24/sex-education-for-the-future/ For my final project for my New Media class, I surveyed and interviewed members of the sex education community to learn more about them, including where they get information about this topic and how they communicate with others with similar interests. I hope you will read my sex education ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/13/sex-education-community-report/ Usually I'm posting news items to help you - the reader - learn more about sex education news...But now I'm hoping for your help. For a project for my New Media journalism class, I am interviewing people who are interested in sex education...The goal is to learn more about ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/09/156/ China launched its first major television campaign this week to promote condom use to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, according to Reuters. The article says China will have an estimated 50,000 new HIV infections in 2007, compared with 70,000 in 2005, according to a report by the State Council ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/09/china-launches-campaign-to-promote-safe-sex/ A nursing lecturer at Salford University in England will host the first live seminar on sexual health on virtual world Second Life next week, according to the Guardian. "Over the last 12 months I've been looking at social networking sites as a way of getting through to young people. Far from ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/09/sex-education-comes-to-life-on-second-life/ RH Reality Check is sponsoring Fresh Focus: a sex ed digital education contest. Entrants can make videos either 1) describing their sex education experiences or 2) describing how they would redesign sex ed curricula for the future. Prizes for winners include a $3,500 scholarship, $1,000 cash and a ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/08/was-your-sex-ed-class-boring-suggest-ways-to-improve-it/ North Carolina, which currently has a mostly abstinence-focused sex education curriculum, is considering mandating comprehensive sex education from kindergarten to ninth grade, according to WRAL-TV. The bill would allow abstinence-only programs to be taught up to the seventh grade and require that school systems allow parents to review all sexual-education materials ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/08/north-carolina-considers-comprehensive-sex-ed-program/ A forum about sex education in Florida's St. Lucie County schools managed to garner several hundred attendees. The local school superintendent recommended Get Real about AIDS, which includes discussion of sexually transmitted diseases, as well as both abstinence and contraception, to the school board in August. School officials released a modified version ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/08/151/ The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday that the nation's teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, increasing 3 percent from 2005 to 2006. The teen birth rate had been declining since a peak in 1991, although the drop had been slowing in recent ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/05/teen-birth-rate-rose-for-the-first-time-in-15-years/ Switching gears, I'm posting a video that demonstrates how to install themes in WordPress. Although this isn't really related to my blog topic, one of the first things I did when I started blogging was to pick a theme that might fit in well with the tone and subject ... http://joyceishere.com/2007/12/03/how-to-install-a-theme-in-wordpress/