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Subject: New Explorers Videoconference Update
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:16:55 EST
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    TO:	  School Media Specialists, Education Liasons, Science Teachers
    FR:	  WTTW/Chicago and PBS Elementary/Secondary Service
    DT:	  January 27,1993
    RE:	  REMINDER: THE NEW EXPLORERS VIDEOCONFERENCE

    REMINDER: THE NEW EXPLORERS Videoconference will be broadcast on March 25,
    1993, 4-5 PM Eastern on most PBS stations. This *free* national 
    videoconference is designed to heighten awareness of the primetime PBS 
    series, THE NEW EXPLORERS and its educational resources among educators, and 
    to showcase the NEW EXPLORERS educational model and how it can be adapted in 
    schools and communities nationwide to both improve science education and 
    strengthen students' interest in science as a career.

    In early February WTTW will send a Videoconference Planning Packet to
    all registered sites.  Please contact your local PBS station Education 
    Services Director to see if this videoconference will be available in your
    area. To find out the name and phone number of your Education Services 
    Director, feel free to call Tom Flavell at PBS at 703/739-5402 or E-mail him 
    at TFLAVELL@PBS.ORG    . 

    The packet will include updated information on the videoconference, tips
    for organizing the videoconference at your site, suggested invitation
    list, sample invitation, sample local press release, logo sheet with
    camera-ready NEW EXPLORERS logos, a contact list, the latest NEW
    EXPLORERS newsletter, and a description of the videoconference handouts
    WTTW will send your station prior to March 25.  The packet is designed
    to make it as easy as possible for your station to host this
    videoconference.

    Because this videoconference is designed to stimulate action rather than
    merely provide information, we encourage your station to consider hosting 
    this event live.  The videoconference will show participants -- teachers,
    museum/science center personnel, and other educators -- how to adopt THE
    NEW EXPLORERS educational model in your community.  By convening
    participants, your station can provide the opportunity for them to
    discuss next steps immediately after the videoconference.  While the
    videoconference will heighten individual educators' awareness of THE NEW
    EXPLORERS television series and educational components, its real
    strength lies in the potential for true educational reform through
    partnerships and its ability to inspire an entire generation of students
    to lean about science and consider careers in it.  By sponsoring this
    videoconference and discussion, your station can make an educational
    impact, signal its educational value, and maximize publicity for the
    upcoming third season of THE NEW EXPLORERS.  Stations participating in
    the Public Television Outreach Alliance's year-long project "Take Action
    for Education" will also want to take advantage of this opportunity.

    PLEASE LET YOUR STATION EDUCATION SERVICES DIRECTOR KNOW YOU ARE INTERESTED!