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<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0188CF">Welcome&nbsp;Texas A&amp;M University Commerce Educators!<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&#8220;Every time you tear a leaf off of a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.&#8221;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">-- Charles Kettering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Happy New Year to all of our NBC Learn subscribers! What&#8217;s your New Year&#8217;s resolution? Here at NBC Learn we are planning some exciting things for 2015. We are working on a new original collection
 with the National Science Foundation called &#8220;Science Behind the Brain&#8221; that will feature videos focusing on how we think, our emotions, memory and more. Our partnership with Pearson will continue with 22 new elementary science videos and over 40 upper level
 science videos.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">NBC Learn will continue to integrate our product with educational content management systems like Moodle. We will be launching a new Implementation Toolkit in the coming months that will show
 you our various setup options, training tutorials, troubleshooting, best practices, and marketing tips to promote NBC Learn around any campus.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We&#8217;ll have Twitter chats and live streaming events and will continue to post relevant, educational content throughout the year in our Current Events collection. And we are even working to add
 Spanish-language closed captioning to new English-language videos going forward.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Texas A&amp;M University Commerce can access NBC Learn Higher Ed by navigating to highered.nbclearn.com from any computer on campus.&nbsp; We hope you enjoy using NBC Learn and we are always happy to
 answer any questions that you may have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Happy New Year from all of us at NBC Learn!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Best Wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The NBC Learn Team</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;a margin: 0px"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0188CF">&nbsp;Featured Videos in January<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0188CF">Historical Birthdays in January<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">January is a great month to celebrate some notable births, including presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, along with important leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., General
 Robert E. Lee and Benjamin Franklin. This playlist pulls from our new <strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://marketing.nbclearn.com/c.html?ufl=1&amp;rtr=on&amp;s=xahkr7,37qb,5h,cfon,agkf,1k6k,ljt6&amp;MLM_MID=149987&amp;MLM_UNIQUEID=11c6cf578a"><span style="color:#0188CF">Pearson
 Social Studies</span></a></span></strong> original collection and other archival pieces on NBC Learn, focusing on notable historical figures with January birthdays.&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0188CF">The Challenger Anniversary and a New Kind of Space Race</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">January marks 29 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://marketing.nbclearn.com/c.html?ufl=1&amp;rtr=on&amp;s=xahkr7,37qb,5h,83k9,hb4r,1k6k,ljt6&amp;MLM_MID=149987&amp;MLM_UNIQUEID=11c6cf578a"><span style="color:#0188CF">exploded</span></a></span></strong> shortly
 after takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all seven astronauts on board. How has America&#8217;s manned space program fared since then, and what is in store for its future? Share this playlist with your students to see how NASA is entering
 a new era in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, as shuttles give way to exciting new rockets like Orion, and the private sector begins to develop its own spacecraft.&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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 A New Kind of Space Race</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0188CF">Resources for the Winter Season</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Check out these videos that could make the snowy winter season a bit more informative and fun! Stuck at home on a snow day? Why not learn more about ice&#8217;s chemical makeup in the
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://marketing.nbclearn.com/c.html?ufl=1&amp;rtr=on&amp;s=xahkr7,37qb,5h,7cey,2lkh,1k6k,ljt6&amp;MLM_MID=149987&amp;MLM_UNIQUEID=11c6cf578a"><span style="color:#0188CF">&quot;Chemistry of Ice&quot;</span></a></span></strong>
 from our <strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Chemistry Now </span>
</strong>video collection.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Speaking of salt, did you know that road salt can cost over $300 million to prevent ice? Well, the town of Beloit, Wisconsin has thought of an innovative and green way to battle that hefty price
 tag by using beets! You can watch the story <strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://marketing.nbclearn.com/c.html?ufl=1&amp;rtr=on&amp;s=xahkr7,37qb,5h,a31d,86ii,1k6k,ljt6&amp;MLM_MID=149987&amp;MLM_UNIQUEID=11c6cf578a">here</a></span></strong>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Why do we use salt to melt our streets and sidewalks? The
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://marketing.nbclearn.com/c.html?ufl=1&amp;rtr=on&amp;s=xahkr7,37qb,5h,a6rc,9ycq,1k6k,ljt6&amp;MLM_MID=149987&amp;MLM_UNIQUEID=11c6cf578a"><span style="color:#0188CF">&quot;Chemistry of Salt&quot;</span></a></span></strong>
 answers that question and more.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0188CF">NBC Learn Higher Ed Subscriber Spotlight: Making &quot;history come alive&quot; with NBC Learn</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We spoke to Joseph Stromberg, a history professor at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">NBC Learn: How do you use NBC Learn videos?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Stromberg: &#8220;I use archival videos that support my narrative in the course. In face-to-face lectures, I like to use videos to personify historical figures such as
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 Rather than me trying to dramatize his voice, I just show him in a clip. I also like the videos that deconstruct political cartoons like
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Stromberg: &#8220;They&#8217;re short, and they&#8217;re full of really good information. As much as I don&#8217;t want to use a cliché, it makes history come alive. I also utilize NBC Learn if I need to miss a lecture
 because it allows me to cover an extensive amount of material. I organize my videos by class and by unit in Blackboard. I find the documentary pieces supplement my courses well. It&#8217;s easy for me, because the videos aren&#8217;t married to a particular textbook,
 so I can drop one in wherever I need to. I also like the transcripts, because they&#8217;re useful for distance learning and allow for ADA compliance.&#8221;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Stromberg: &#8220;They know they&#8217;re short clips, so they are committed to paying attention. They all pop up the closer the video is to a point of controversy. Every time I play the video interview
 with <strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://marketing.nbclearn.com/c.html?ufl=1&amp;rtr=on&amp;s=xahkr7,37qb,5h,jo16,1ga9,1k6k,ljt6&amp;MLM_MID=149987&amp;MLM_UNIQUEID=11c6cf578a">Florence Owens Thompson</a></span></strong>, the &#8220;Mona Lisa
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Tom Hoerr, Head of School at New City School</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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