NEW PIX FROM FRESHI SANTA MONICA PROGRAM

Freshi Teacher Anne Turley sent along these photos from Freshi's program at Muir Elementary School in Santa Monica.

INTERNATIONAL FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL POSTER ART GALLERY NOW ONLINE

This is the poster for next year's International Family Film Festival. The IFFF, Freshi's partner organization, has had the opportunity, over the past 15 years, to work with a host of extraordinary artists. Now, we've made it possible to see all of the great artwork they've created - and learn more about them.

Click here for a link to information on the poster above, and a link to our gallery of past IFFF poster art.

FRESHI ATTENDS TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING CONFERENCE

Several Freshi Staff (Chris and Suzanne Shoemaker, Jason Medbury and Kevin Paige) recently returned from the T+L Conference (Technology plus Learning) in Denver, CO.

The show ran from October 27 - 29th, and Freshi promoted it's new video game design program with great interest from school districts and school boards across the country and abroad. "There was a marked increase of interest from school systems and administrators about our unique and scalable digital approach to presenting education in an engaging and entertaining way. We call it disguised education, because children are learning critical digital 21st century skills while having a blast!" commented Freshi Marketing director Chris Shoemaker.

Freshi also shared a booth beside CLICK TEAM, a new strategic partner in it's digital video game design curricula. Both companies benefited from this collaboration as it readily answered specific questions from conference attendees about how certain games aspects are designed and function and how within schools they are implemented.

The T+L Conference is presented by the National School Boards Association (NSBA). NSBA is a not-for-profit Federation of state associations of school boards across the United States. Its mission is to foster excellence and equity in public education through school board leadership. NSBA achieves that mission by representing the school board perspective before federal government agencies and with national organizations that affect education, and by providing vital information and services to state associations of school boards and local school boards throughout the nation.

This year’s T+L Conference focused on the critical issues facing schools today including Tools for Engagement, Strategies for Tough Economic Times, Leadership for Innovation, Technology & the Law, Taking 1:1 Learning to the Next Level, and Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce with S.T.E.M.

Freshi Team members (L. to R.): Kevin Paige, Jason Medbury and Dr. Suzanne Shoemaker.

Freshi Trainer Kevin Paige takes a break from the action at T+L.

FRESHI PARTNERSHIP ABROAD

On Freshi's new Freshi Planet page, you'll find a logo for Freshi Partnership Abroad. Click on this and discover how Freshi will extend curricula to high school clients both in the US and abroad who wish to connect to other high schools from another country either on digital filmmaking or digital video game design projects or both.

WELCOME TO FRESHI PLANET!

Freshi's programs have taken us throughout the United States and around the world - and now you can experience the full breadth of these experiences on our new Freshi Planet pages. See video and photos from our journeys, learn more about the cities, states and countries we've visited, and enjoy special features unique to each location.

We've just launched our India section; we'll announce each new section right here as soon as they're available.

But...

...that's not all! Check back here on Wednesday for news

on another exciting Freshi program:

Freshi Partnership Abroad.

FRESHI LIFE RECOMMENDED LINK: BREAK DOWN THE WALLS

On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, Freshi founder Chris Shoemaker calls our attention to a moving song, Break Down the Walls, performed by Kidz of Horst, a group of German children 8-15 that have been performing together since May of 2008.

Like Freshi's programs worldwide, they're celebrating peace and understanding!

NOW BEING FEATURED ON FRESHIFLIX.COM!

Here's "Nomad Disco Quest, a (very) short animated film now being featured on Freshiflix.com