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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.


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