Joan Ganz Cooney Intro to the Cooney Center

Joan Ganz Cooney is the co-founder of Sesame Workshop. This clip is from Logging Into the Playground: How Digital Media are Shaping Children's Learning, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop's inaugural symposium, held on May 9, 2008, at the McGraw-Hill building in New York City. The mission of the Cooney Center is to catalyze and support research, innovation, and investment in digital media technologies to advance children's learning. To learn more about the Center, visit www.joanganzcooneycenter.org.

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[MsGiraffeluvr]

She is awesome

[ozzie300]

Joan, as a person who grew up, not watching, but working on Sesame Street, you have always amazed me with your ability to see what is possible and bring it to fruition. Just when I begin to think I'm getting old, I see you and I feel like a kid again, just like 1970.

Thank you,

Ozzie Alfonso

[mhlcc1]

This is an amazing piece of tape, vintage Joan Ganz Cooney, who is finally recognized for her amazing work in educational media with the founding of a new center, named for her.