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Award-Winning Sunburst Visual Media Brings New Content to Learn360 in Fall 2012 | Business Wire10/15/12 12:37 PMOctober 15, 2012 09:19 AM Eastern Daylight TimeAward-Winning Sunburst Visual Media Brings New Content to Learn360 in Fall 2012Addition of 32 new health education clips will have timely focus in 21 st century classroomsWOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Learn360, an interactive media-on-demand service for the K-12 education market,announces new content titles from Sunburst Visual Media available this fall in the U.S. and Canada in its online multimedia anddigital content library. Since January 2010, Sunburst’s award-winning videos and resources have been exclusive to Learn360.Sunburst, one of the top producers of guidance and health educational video content for the K-12 market, has produced award-winning, highly acclaimed and recognizable video contentsince 1972. They also provide accompanying teacher resources to help educators with toughto-teachtopics, and this fall, Learn360 will add 32 new video clips discussing special needs,cyber bullying, digital and cyber safety, peer pressure, time management and stress.“Education in the 21stcentury requires morethan just your averagecore curriculum”“Education in the 21 st century requires more than just your average core curriculum,” said Ed Murphy, vice president of businessdevelopment at Learn360. “By educating students on topics like bullying, obesity, internet safety and stress, schools today canbetter prepare them for situations both at school, home and while out and about. The Sunburst content featured on Learn360 hasbeen highly effective in instructing and engaging students on these valuable topics, and we look forward to what the new contentwill offer to our students and our educators.”Additionally, Sunburst content covers core curriculum subjects such as science, social studies and art. It also includes a variety ofprofessional development resources. Its more than 3,400 titles are available only as digital classroom videos to Learn360subscribers. These videos can be streamed, edited and downloaded to provide educators several options to meet their needs.“For the release of this new content, we focused on the subject areas deemed most important in education today,” said TonyMazzarella, president at Mazzarella Media and producer at Sunburst Visual Media. “Within the topics of special needs, scienceand technology and health and guidance, we found a need for more information on subjects like peer pressure, cyber bullyingand digital and cyber safety. These new clips will aid teachers in today’s classrooms and be an important addition to the alreadyextensive Learn360 library.”In addition to Sunburst Visual Media, Learn360 provides customers with thousands of digital video titles, images, articles, audiofiles and podcasts. These trusted resources are provided by top educational publishers such as BBC Motion Gallery,Encyclopedia Britannica, A&E Television Networks (which include A&E, History and Bio) and National Geographic, amongothers. For more information or to sign up for a free 30-day trial, visit Learn360.com.About Learn360With an extensive library of digital video titles and online resources, Learn360 gives educators and students the power to meetand exceed 21st century educational expectations. Setting a superior standard of quality for video streaming, Learn360 deliversthe rich resources educators need to bring standards-based and differentiated instruction to students everywhere. For morehttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121015005957/enPage 1 of 2

Award-Winning Sunburst Visual Media Brings New Content to Learn360 in Fall 2012 | Business Wire10/15/12 12:37 PMinformation, or to sign up for a free 30-day trial, visit www.learn360.com.About Sunburst Visual MediaSunburst has been a leading publisher of life-skills educational media since 1972. Geared toward the K-12 market, SVM pridesitself on presenting tough-to-teach topics through realistic videos that represent health and guidance issues. Digital content isexclusively available on Learn360.ContactsDittoe Public RelationsGreta Hass, 317-202-2280 X18greta@dittoepr.comhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121015005957/enPage 2 of 2