Teachers, librarians and media specialists who have computers and modems now have access to hundreds of one page stories on science and the environment. The University of Wisconsin -- Madison has put scripts from its award winning Earthwatch Radio program on its WiscINFO system which is connected to the Internet.
Earthwatch Radio is a two minute program on science and the environment produced at UW -- Madison by the Sea Grant Institute and the Institute for Environmental Studies. The program is heard on more than 160 radio stations in the United States and Canada. The script for each program is one page long, and these short stories offer concise, clearly written reports on a variety of environmental topics, especially those regarding the Great Lakes region. The scripts are particularly useful for teachers and for educators affiliated with nature centers, museums, zoos and environmental organizations.
To reach the Earthwatch scripts, use gopher to access the UW-Madison gopher server, known as WiscINFO (wiscinfo.wisc.edu). You can reach the Earthwatch subdirectory by using the search function in the WiscINFO main menu to locate "Earthwatch Radio Scripts." You can also go through the listed menus, starting with the main menu and selecting "News Releases, Newsletters and Newspapers", moving next to "Special Interest Publications" and finally selecting "Sea Grant Institute Publications" (which will list Earthwatch scripts among its entries). You will find the scripts in directories broken down by year and by mailing date. (Ten programs are mailed to broadcasters every two weeks.)
If you use Mosaic or another World Wide Web browser, you can use the following URL to access Earthwatch scripts.
gopher://gopher.adp.wisc.edu:70/11/.browse/.METASGIEW
If you must navigate the Internet some other way, use your skills to get to "wiscinfo.wisc.edu". If you need to enter a login password, type "wiscinfo" -- and be sure to use only lowercase letters. If you encounter a prompt asking for "terminal emulation" or "terminal type", enter "vt100" -- a generic terminal type that usually works. (Most Apple and IBM-compatible computers use the vt100 terminal emulation.)
For more information about Internet, gopher servers and access to the WiscINFO system at UW -- Madison, contact your own library and media specialists or your local computer network support staff. For more information about Earthwatch Radio, contact:
Richard Hoops, rwhoops@macc.wisc.edu
Earthwatch Radio Producer
Sea Grant Institute
1800 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53705-4094
Phone: (608) 263-3149
Fax: (608) 263-2063
Steve Pomplun, pomplun@macc.wisc.edu
Earthwatch Radio Producer
Institute for Environmental Studies
15 Science Hall
550 Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-3063
Fax: (608) 262-2273
This information last updated 10/21/94.
Attention all!
This announcement is to let all of you who have been inquiring know that the Global Schoolhouse (TM) Project is very much alive and well -- and growing! To clear up the confusion, the funding cycle for the original project that was funded by National Science Foundation and other sponsors, has officially ended. However, the work of building the Global Schoolhouse, that began over a decade ago with the Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN), continues.
The concept of a "global schoolhouse" originated in 1985 when teachers in San Diego linked their students to classrooms on the east coast. With a grant from the National Science Foundation in 1992, GSN launched the "official" Global Schoolhouse Pilot Project that showcased live video-conferencing over the Internet.
Global SchoolNet Foundation is very interested in identifying schools, organizations, businesses and individuals who want to become partners in expanding the concept of the Global Schoolhouse. This is an international effort to encourage "change agents" to work together to improve education and to support lifelong learning.
globalschoolnet-watch@gsn.org
This list offers periodic updates on collaborative projects, on training materials and on special events focusing on using the Internet to make education more effective.
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This list will put you in touch with other K-12 schools AROUND THE WORLD which have the capability to do CU-SeeMe video conferencing over the Internet. The list will be used to announce upcoming special events and opportunities for schools to participate in live videoconferences with other schools, with scientists and authors, with government and business entities, and with community leaders.
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You can learn more about the Global SchoolNet Foundation, the Global Schoolhouse (TM) Project and other exciting projects (including Geogame, Family Tree-Mail: Language Translation, CyberStars: Number Ones of Tomorrow, and Where on the Globe is Roger?) by accessing our World Wide Web site at:
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Global Schoolhouse/Global SchoolNet Foundation
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KIDLINK celebrates its fifth anniversary this month, and birthday presents are being received from sponsors. KIDLINK is a grassroots project working to get children aged 10 to 15 involved in a global dialog, mainly through the use of the Internet and of LISTSERV electronic mailing lists. Since its start in 1990, over 35,000 youths from 68 countries have participated in the project.
L-Soft international, Inc. (Washington, DC) made KIDLINK the latest recipient of their Awards for Student Internet Innovations. The award consists of a high-end Pentium (TM) system and an unlimited capacity version of L-Soft's LISTSERV (TM) electronic mailing list management software.
KIDLINK uses LISTSERV lists to help students find Internet penpals, called "keypals". In public forums, called KIDCAFEs, they discuss themselves, their ambitions, how the world could be a better place, and what they can do now to make all this happen.
Other lists are used by educators operating short and long-term joint projects, such as the recent "Virtual China" project. Classrooms around the world communicated with groups of 7th graders from Hong Kong travelling by bicycle through rural southern China and to the ancient city of Xi'an -- home of the famous Terra Cotta Soldiers.
Teams of students play key roles in the operation of KIDLINK. Some work as WIZARDS, a term for volunteers providing help to all new users. Others help develop Web pages or participate in the administration of mailing lists.
Susan Lowell, L-Soft's Communications and Marketing Coordinator, says, "KIDLINK was chosen to receive the award because it empowers students to build their own world-wide community, giving them a unique opportunity to explore a multicultural environment while providing them with a place to experiment with their own Internet projects."
"Thanks to the donation, we will be able to take full advantage of the World Wide Web technology for our projects," says Odd de Presno, founder of KIDLINK. "For example, by exhibiting the hundreds of items in our Gallery of Computer Art, we hope to make the Internet a more inviting place for the world's children."
L-Soft has earmarked $50,000 for donations to student groups with innovative ideas for making the Internet more useful to non-technical users. These Awards for Student Internet Innovations consist mostly of high-end personal computers and related equipment, together with licenses for LISTSERV (TM). To be considered for an award, student groups should send electronic mail describing their association and projects to AWARDS@LSOFT.COM.
KIDLINK has also received an IBM RT PC from Yale University School of Medicine, the Department of Pharmacology (USA). This computer will serve backup and secondary purposes. You can reach KIDLINK via the World Wide Web at:
and at L-Soft at:
Information about KIDLINK is also available by e-mail. Send your mail to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU. Put GET KIDLINK GENERAL in the body of your text.
Thanks,
Yours truly,
Odd de Presno, KIDLINK Project Director, opresno@kidlink.org
The Online World Handbook, http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html
KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15, gopher://gopher.kidlink.org
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