Peace One Day Unveils New Technology to Ease Burden on Teachers

13th May 2009 sees the launch of the new digital Peace One Day Citizen Resource - a multi-media educational package supporting Peace Day to be distributed free to all secondary schools across the UK & Northern Ireland. For the first time the related video content, lesson plans and resource links will be available digitally via a new, dedicated website http://education.peaceoneday.org. Developed by YUDU, the fully interactive Peace Day educational experience is available for teachers to use within the classroom.

The pre- approved lesson plans are user friendly, time saving, informative, easy to navigate, interesting, diverse and socially engaging, easing the burden from overworked teachers.

The 19 active student centred lesson plans and homework tasks included in the Resource, allow teachers to advance active learning in the areas of conflict resolution; global citizenship; human rights; the link between sustainability and peace; Inter-cultural cooperation; the UN; anti-bullying; the environment; music; sports and many other issues of significance for young people in the UK and worldwide.

The YUDU Pro digital edition has been designed as an easy to use format for teachers to access, and includes:

• Search engine friendly for maximum viral impact
• Razor sharp vector text for easy reading
• Infinite zoom for viewing small print
• Video, audio and flash which plays out of the page
• Contextual search to easily find what you want.
• 1 click instant page printing
• Saving for offline viewing (PC and MAC)
• Integrated social bookmarking / posting on facebook , Digg and more
• Teacher and student personal bookmarking and page notes
• Yellow highlighter for marking up text.
• Plain Text version for hearing and sight impaired
• Text edition is compatible with screen readers for the blind
• Index Tabs for easy navigation of sections
• YUDU Media browser to view all videos separately
• Ability to embed the edition on Schools and University websites

Richard Stephenson, YUDU Media's President & Chairman says, "YUDU is proud to support Peace One Day in its mission to educate young people about the importance of a peaceful world. Our digital publishing technology has enabled the combination of videos, lesson plans and resource links for a fully interactive educational resource pack that can be distributed in an instant. We're delighted our technology can assist such a worthy cause."

About Peace One Day

Peace One Day, is a non-profit organisation dedicated to creating global awareness of and participation in Peace Day - a day of worldwide ceasefire and non-violence occurring on the 21st September each year.

Peace One Day was founded by film maker Jeremy Gilley in 1999, who campaigned to try and establish the first ever Day of Peace with a fixed calendar date. In 2001 member states of the UN unanimously recognised Peace Day as the 21st September.

Peace One Day is working on a variety of new and existing initiatives to maximise the reach of Peace Day and leverage life-saving activity and individual action throughout the world on 21st September.