Mars Virtual Conference July 20

[NASA K-12 Internet Initiative <sellers@QUEST.ARC.NASA.GOV>]

              Passport to Knowledge / NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
                       NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

                    present for the FIRST TIME EVER.......

                 MARS "VIRTUAL" TEACHER TRAINING CONFERENCE
                                JULY 20, 1996
                                   via the
                      Internet and Video Conferencing


This July marks the 20th anniversary of the Mars Viking Landings,
and 1996 will see new American and Russian missions to the red
planet. Many educators across the country are gearing up for a
special focus on Mars during the upcoming school year. Live From
Mars, the next electronic field trip from Passport to Knowledge
(sponsored in part by NSF/NASA and public television), will connect
students across the country with the upcoming NASA Discovery
Program's Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor missions via
four live telecasts, hands-on curriculum materials, and online
resources from November 1996 through November 1997.

A three day teacher workshop to help educators prepare to
implement Live From Mars in their classrooms is planned for July 18-
20 in Washington, DC, site of the Viking Commemoration. Teachers
attending the workshop will include representatives from each state,
many of whom have actively participated in the Passport to
Knowledge (PTK) projects over the past three years. Guest speakers
include Astronomer Carl Sagan, NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, and
NASA JPL Mars Pathfinder and Global Surveyor mission scientists
and experts. Optimizing the integration of electronic field trips and
the Internet in the classroom are also focus topics of the upcoming
workshop.

Passport to Knowledge and NASA intend to abolish the constraints of
time and space and travel budgets, by experimenting with a virtual
workshop on Saturday July 20.

Educators are invited to virtually attend the Saturday, July 20
workshop.  This virtual conference will be conducted through
on-line interactive technologies such as email, Cu-SeeMe, and
WebChat. Virtual participants will have opportunities to interact
live via participation in electronic mail forums, online question and
answer opportunities, interactive chat sessions, and Cu-SeeMe and
will have access to all support curriculum materials via the World
Wide Web. Through this first time ever PTK/NASA sponsored virtual
conference the same professional development experience will be
available to all educators, regardless of their geographical
proximity to the live workshop.

It is critical to our project to have host sites:

   * universities
   * science centers
   * planetariums
   * corporate sponsored sites
   * education support agencies
   * K-12 institutions

which can serve as a local hosts for participation in the online
workshop.

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