National Children's Folksong Repository Featured on Destination DIY Radio Show

Nov. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 23th, 2010
National Children's Folksong Repository Featured on Destination DIY
Teachers and Students Invited to Contribute a Song, Preserve Culture

Karen Ellis, Founder of the Educational CyberPlayground, http://www.edu-cyberpg.com an online portal for K-12 education with over 11,000 members, will be featured in a series of interviews on Destination DIY starting November 27th.

Do your kids like to sing at the playground? Did you know that songs like “Miss Mary Mack” could be the key to preserving culture and improving literacy and that you can contribute a song with a toll-free phone call?

Karen Ellis, Founder of the Educational CyberPlayground, an online portal for K-12 education with over 11,000 members, will be featured in a series of interviews on Destination DIY starting November 27th. She will be discussing the National Children’s Folksong Repository (NCFR), an online library which is collecting playground songs, jump rope chants, circle games and other songs from children around the US to help preserve oral culture. NCFR was created to collect and preserve children’s culture, and it is set up to be easy to contribute and use. Karen Ellis uses technology to make it easy for students to contribute:

   "Get Ready, Get Set, GO -- This happens so quickly. Use your cell phone, camera or computer to record and then send your music file or video to the Educational CyberPlayGround. We will put it up online for everyone to hear !!"

Destination DIY is a popular Oregon-based radio show and podcast which talks about “revolutionary do-it-yourself projects” and how creative people are making projects with impact using limited resources. The interviews by Destination DIY’s Julie Sabatier will be featured in Oregon Public Radio (91.5FM) on the November 27th and December 4th shows at Noon PST and rebroadcast on December 1st and 8th at 8PM PST. Listeners outside of Oregon can listen online at http://www.opb.org/radio. Podcasts of the shows will be available after the broadcasts at http://destinationdiy.org/ .

Teachers, students and families can visit
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR
to listen to playground songs from around the world,
and can contribute their own by calling 1 - 877 - 220 - 0262.

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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.