Lansing – Today is the first-ever National Digital Learning Day! As part of this initiative, Governor Snyder issued a proclamation to recognize the importance of technology supported learning in Michigan. Gov. Snyder's proclamation references Michigan Virtual School as "one of the largest in the country."

Later today, the event sponsors will host a national town hall meeting.  The meeting will include Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education and Julius Genachowski, Chairperson of the Federal Communications Commission. The meeting will will accessible via the Internet and will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 2:30 p.m. To learn more about this event visit: http://www.digitallearningday.org/.

Michigan is celebrating 2012 as the Year of the Digital Learner, and is part of the national Digital Learning Day initiative. To learn more about the various events scheduled to recognized digital learning in Michigan go to http://www.macul.org/otherevents/year-of-the-digital-learner/.

MVU's own Online Teacher of the Year, Julia Swartz, was at a press conference in East Lansing this morning, organized by the Michigan Department of Education, to help celebrate today’s event.