Kentucky on iTunesU
Justin Bathon on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 2:42PM 
Today we launched the Kentucky iTunesU network (link will ask you to open iTunes and say yes) at Woodford County High School where the school is moving this fall to a 1-1 iPad environment. It was a project of the Technology Leadership Lab at the UK College of Education, which is now CASTLE. It was also in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, Kentucky Educational Television and Woodford County School District.
Thus, in particular, I would like to thank Marty Park, Brian Spellman and Greg French, respectively, for being part of the core team that made this event happen. Dr. Scott Hawkins, the superintendent, and Rob Akers, the principal, were also instrumental because they let us invade their school (and convinced their district to move toward 1-1 tablets). Also, thanks to the speakers for coming and sharing their thoughts: Gov. Steve Beshear, President Eli Capilouto, Director Shea Hopkins and Commissioner Terry Holliday. There are also a lot of other people to thank that made this event possible, my law student Chase Bannister, the press teams at UK, KDE and KET, the various teachers and staff at Woodford County High School, and many others.
Here is some of the media coverage of the event:
LEX 18 (Video)
WKYT (Video)
Kentucky Herald Leader (Newspaper)
State Journal in Frankfort (Newspaper)
WUKY (radio)
So, this was a fabulous event. I'm proud we brough this to launch (been working on it for about a year and a half (far too long)) and happy that it might be useful to students around Kentucky. So, thanks to all for helping ... and now it is on to the next project.
