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  • From: "Tim Hwang" <thwang AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: cc-presslist AT lists.ibiblio.org, cc-community AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [cc-presslist] PRESS RELEASE: Education Innovator Esther Wojcicki Joins Creative Commons Board
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:47:45 -0700

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Tim Hwang
Business Development -- Creative Commons
415-912-0550
thwang AT creativecommons.org
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Education Innovator Esther Wojcicki Joins Creative Commons Board
San Francisco, CA – July 10, 2008

Creative Commons (CC), a global non-profit focused on the preservation
and growth of a openly shareable and remixable media landscape,
officially announced today that education innovator Esther Wojcicki
has joined its Board of Directors.

Wojcicki has been a prominent figure in American education. As the
leading mind behind the creation of the country's largest high school
journalism program, she has won numerous awards, including the
prestigious title of Teacher of the Year from the California State
Teacher Credentialing Commission. Most recently, she received special
recognition for her work from the National Scholastic Press
Association.

"We're truly excited to have Esther on board. Her presence marks an
important step in the developing role Creative Commons seeks to play
in supporting open educational content" commented Joi Ito, CEO of CC,
"Her experience and advice will be an invaluable part of shaping our
future in that arena."

Esther Wojcicki said, "I am thrilled to be joining the talented team
of directors, advisors, and staff at Creative Commons, whose
collaborative efforts are supporting the expansion of the public
domain. I look forward to applying my experience in education and
technology, and am eager to work closely with the Board as this
pioneering organization continues to grow."

Wojcicki has also been a key pioneer in exploring the emerging
interface between education and technology. She helped lay the
groundwork for the design of the Google Teacher Outreach Program and
Google Teacher Academy, a professional development event which trains
teachers to leverage innovative technologies to enhance their
classrooms.

Wojcicki joins a board of directors that includes technologist Joi
Ito, cyberlaw and intellectual property experts James Boyle, Michael
Carroll, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Eric Saltzman, and Lawrence
Lessig, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, Wikipedia founder
Jimmy Wales, documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, and Public
Knowledge founder Laurie Racine.

MORE ABOUT ESTHER WOJCICKI

Esther Wojcicki has been teaching Journalism and English at Palo Alto
High School, Palo Alto, California for the past 25 years, where she
has been the driving force behind the development of its award-winning
journalism program. It is now the largest high school journalism
program in the U.S involving 400 students. All the publications can be
found at http://voice.paly.net which is the school publication
website. In the spring of 2008, she was recognized for inspiration and
excellence in scholastic journalism advising by the National
Scholastic Press Association. She has won multiple awards throughout
the years. A couple of others included the 1990 Northern California
Journalism teacher of the year in 1990 and California State Teacher
Credentialing Commission Teacher of the Year in 2002. She served on
the University of California Office of the President Curriculum
Committee where she helped revise the beginning and advanced
journalism curriculum for the state of California. In 2005–6 she
worked as the Google educational consultant and helped design the
Google Teacher Outreach program, which includes the website
www.google.com/educators and the Google Teacher Academy. She holds a
B.A. degree from UC Berkeley in English and Political Science, a
general secondary teaching credential from UC Berkeley, a graduate
degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, an advanced
degree in French and French History from the Sorbonne, Paris, a
Secondary School Administrative Credential from San Jose State
University, and a M.A. in Educational Technology from San Jose State
University. She has also worked as a professional journalist for
multiple publications and now blogs regularly for HuffingtonPost and
HotChalk.

ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional
copyright to enable a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous
support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain,
Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.

CONTACT

Ahrash Bissell
Executive Director, ccLearn
Creative Commons
ahrash AT creativecommons.org

PRESS KIT
http://creativecommons.org/presskit

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