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Hi LM_NETTERS, Dolores J. Deardorff of Maryland Public Television asked that I post this announcement on the 'Net for her. LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA is a series of four live interactive two-way distance learning telecasts scheduled for December and January. Nancy Nancy A. Morgan, AskERIC Coordinator nmorgan@ericir.syr.edu ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 13244 (315) 443-9114 FAX (315) 443-5448 FACT SHEET "LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA" Electronic Field Trip to the Ends of the Earth A co-production of MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION and GEOFF HAINES)STILES PRODUCTIONS in association with WTTW/Chicago TITLE LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA: Electronic Field Trips to the Ends of the Earth (part of PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE series) BROADCAST DATES and TIMES Episode #1: THE COLDEST, WINDIEST, ICIEST PLACE ON EARTH December 13, 1994 at 2:00 p.m Episode #2: LIFE IN ANTARCTICA: "THEN" AND "NOW" December 15, 1994 at 2:00 p.m. Episode #3: SPACESHIP SOUTH POLE January 10, 1995 at 5:30 p.m. (*Featuring the first ever live telecast form South Pole) Re-Feed on January 12, 1995 at 2 p.m. Backcontingency date of Jan. 12, 5:30 p.m. if there are weather problems. Episode #4: ANTARCTICA: FROM POLE TO PLANET January 19, 1995 at 1:00 p.m. DESCRIPTION LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA is a series of four live interactive two-way distance learning telecasts. These interdisciplinary electronic field trips to the ends of the earth offer classroom students in the United States the chance to interact with scientists in the Antarctica via live television and on)line services. Included is the first ever live telecast from the South Pole showing the repositioning of the earth's geographical South Pole marker. Each program will be 40 minutes in length with a break at 20 minutes. Targeted at middle and high school students, LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA will be linked to two live interactive teaching sites where students will ask questions of scientists via real time audio/video linkages. This series will be a landmark example of the educational potential of new technologies -- to create a classroom without walls where students can interact with any part of the globe, anytime, anywhere. Students will participate live from, Texas; Barrow, Alaska; Charlottesville, Virginia and Chicago, Illinois. Telecasts will be downlinked through Maryland Public Television in Baltimore, which will coordinate links between scientists and researchers at McMurdo station, the main U.S. base in Antarctica, co)hosts anchoring from MPT's Maryland Teleplex and students and teachers at the interactive classroom sites. All viewing students can interact on-line through PBS ONLINE's Learning Link and NASA Spacelink. SCHEDULING NOTE TELSTAR 401 TRANSPONDER 7U Teachers can use the LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA telecasts either by watching them live or taping them for later use. Schools may be able to receive the programs from broadcasts on their local public TV station, or by downloading them directly from TELSTAR 401, or from other regional satellites, cable or closed*circuit networks. PROGRAM RIGHTS One year broadcast rights One year off-air educational re-record rights PRODUCER LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA is a co-production of Maryland Public Television and Geoff Haines-Stiles Productions in association with WTTW/Chicago. LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA is made possible, in part, by support form the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, PBS K-12 Learning Services and the U.S. Department of Energy. "The New Explorers," a co-production of WTTW and Kurtis Productions, Ltd. underwritten by AMOCO Corp. and Duracell International, Inc., joins MPT and GHSP in presenting the "Spaceship South Pole" episode. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION To register for the free Teacher's Guide, and to hear pre-recorded messages about satellite coordinates, broadcast times, program content, "How to get Online" and other information, call 1-800-626-LIVE (1-800-626-5483) To request printed material by mail, write to: LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA, P.O. Box 1502; Summit, New Jersey 07902-1502 To ensure the speediest delivery of materials via 1st class mail, please include a 9 x 12, self-addressed envelope, pre-stamped with $2.90 in postage (Guide available November 18, 1994) For information about PBS ONLINE's Learning Link, contact Customer service at 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314 or call (703)739-8464. For information about NASA's K-12 Internet Project, contact (415)604-0766, Mon.- Fri. 1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. (PST), Saturdays 9:00 - 12:00 noon, fax (415)604-3445. For information about NASA Spacelink call (205)961-1225 LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA Program Summaries (working titles) THE COLDEST, WINDIEST, ICIEST PLACE ON EARTH December 13, 1994 2:00 p.m. EST How the continent was formed and has changed over time - the rise and fall of Gondwanaland; Antarctica's extremes of climate and weather: what it takes to do research in such an environment and the faces and personal stories of modern science: how helicopters, ice-breakers and chain-saws are "lab tools," and many dedicated people with perhaps unexpected jobs -- pilots, cooks, carpenters -- are "laboratory assistants," along with the Ph.D. scientists with their telescopes, satellites and advanced telecommunications. Live interactive interconnects with students in Texas and Maryland. LIFE IN ANTARCTICA: "THEN" AND "NOW" December 15, 1994 2:00 p.m. EST As the continent has evolved, so have the life-forms which live here. The program goes fossil hunting in the majestic Transantarctic Mountains, summoning up the days when this was tropical forest; studies Emperor penguins, close up and underwater; and looks at fish with organic antifreeze in their bodies! Live video from the Dry Valleys, a place more desiccated than the Gobi Desert, but where life is found inside rocks and deep in perpetually ice-covered lakes, we dive to see an underwater glacier. Live interactive interconnects with students in Honolulu, Hawaii and Maryland. SPACE SOUTH POLE January 10, 1995 5:30 p.m. EST Re-Feed: January 12, 1995 2:00 p.m. EST Cut off from the rest of the planet every antarctic winter, America's Pole station is like a spaceship, testing the limits of human spirit and engineering; what's Christmas like at the South Pole? A 17-year old recent high school graduate from Chicago gives her impressions and repositions Earth's geographical South Pole marker, live, during the program! The program also explains why astronomers have built some of the planet's most powerful telescopes at the Pole, studying the origins of the stars, galaxies and universe from what is literally the end of the Earth. Live interactive interconnects with students in Chicago, Illinois; Honolulu, Hawaii and Charlottesville, Virginia. Bill Kurtis, host of "The New Explorers," a co-production of WTTW and Kurtis Productions Ltd., anchors the Chicago interactive downlink. ANTARCTICA: FROM POLE TO PLANET January 19, 1995 1:00 p.m. EST Governed by international treaty, Antarctica is a place from which all weapons are banned, a place devoted to scientific research. What does Antarctica tell us about how men and women of all nations can cooperate for the common good? What do clues hidden in its huge sheets of ice reveal about past climates and teach us about how Earth's weather may change in the future? What can students do, linked by telecommunications, to help scientists gather data and educate themselves to build a better future for the planet? Live interactive interconnects with students in Barrow, Alaska and Maryland.