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AN: ED11A-0122    [Abstracts]
TI: Ice Stories: An Educational Collaboration between the Exploratorium and IPY Scientists.
AU: * Mary, M K
EM: marym@exploratorium.edu
AF: Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123, United States
AB: The Exploratorium, a renowned interactive science museum in San Francisco, has launched a major NSF-funded public education project to highlight research in the Arctic and Antarctic during the International Polar Year. "Ice Stories" will partner museum media and web producers with polar scientists working in the field to bring their research to the Internet and museum audiences via live Webcasts, video clips, blogs, podcasts, and other media platforms. To prepare scientists for their role as field correspondents, the Exploratoirum will train a cohort of 20- 30 young investigators in media collection, production and narrative story telling during an intensive one-week workshop in San Francisco. The museum will curate the polar field reports, and other IPY news and education events, into a continuously updated Web portal on the Exploratorium's award-winning Website and highlight the ongoing research in museum programming, floor demonstrations, and exhibits. These unique collaborations between formal and informal science can serve as a model for other partnerships during major scientific endeavors beyond the International Polar Year.
UR: http://www.exploratorium.edu/poles
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0855 Diversity
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting