Aloha Dear Friend of the Earth,
To remind you and let you know I have asked for cooperation with the Earth Day Education Networks plans (see FWD at end):
Every year around Earth Day April; 22, we produce a KidCast for Peace; Solutions for a Better World video conference so that kids in schools around the world can share the artwork they have created to demonstrate solutions to the ills of our world and its peoples, and to tell the adults what to do, for a change! (For Change).
Perhaps there is a way we might cross-link and let our KidCast Network know about your events and visa versa?
Here is a description of our event:
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KidCast for Peace; Solutions for a Better World facilitates the gathering and expression of young people and their SOLUTIONS for making this a happier, healthier, safer, more peace filled world. KidCast for Peace encourages young people (and those young at heart) to tell the "adults" what to do for a change! A live multi-node video conference will connect assembled kids in multiple countries, who will show and discuss creative SOLUTIONS they have made for birthing a happier, healthier, safer and more peace filled world. This audio-video and text conferencing opportunity connecting schools, homes and cyber cafes around the world, helps young people create the world they will inherit.
Through creating this "Peace Portal," KCFP facilitates peer to peer interaction that transcends borderlines, color lines and cultural separation. Our focus is on K12 children. KidCast connects all kids at heart to appreciate children for their peace filled contributions. Parents and teachers are asked to assist students learn about cooperation, creative self-expression, ecological sanity and conflict resolution as a preface to making the KidCast for Peace art; offering SOLUTIONS. Details can be found in KidCast Central: http://creativity.net/KidCast/ . Participants are already getting ready for our next Earth Day Multinode broadcast on April 22, 2006. Would you like to coordinate a group in your neighborhood? Please join our coordinating mailing list if so: http://creativity.net/lists/kcfplist.html .
Pass this on to those you know and consider hosting a video conference node with some gathered children from where you are! This positive media edutainment, tele-activity is made possible through the resources of Visionary Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services (V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media, 501c3) and its sponsors. KCFP is supported solely by donations, sponsorship and volunteer efforts. Please be generous and help sustain KidCast for Peace. Detailed sponsorship information can be found in Creativity Cafe's KidCast Central: http://creativity.net/KidCast/, by writing kidcast15@creativity.net, or by visiting http://creativity.net/KidCast/donate.html. We need your help to make things better. Please participate in bringing peace.
Blessings and Aloha
Peter H. Rosen
Coordinator and Founder
KidCast for Peace; Solutions for a Better World
Creativity Cafe; a New School for the New Millennium
PS: Normally the KCFP iVisit (free software we use) network does not form until just before the event. We would like to test with you way before if possible? Please let me know if you want to play? Before that, people are getting information, making art, and debugging their audio and video so the technology is transparent on the day of our event. You can keep the pulse of our activities by joining our KIDCAST FOR PEACE MAILING LIST: http://creativity.net/lists/kcfplist.html
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From: "education" <education@earthday.net>;
Date: March 7, 2006 9:01:48 AM HST
To: <edn-teachers@listserve.shs.net>;
Subject: Earth Day Network Educators Network Newsletter
Reply-To: webmaster@earthday.net
EDN Educators Network Update
EDN Educators Network Update Newsletter
March, 2006
Dear Educators Network,
Earth Day is less than two months away and EDN's Education Department has some important announcements to make. Any comments or questions about EDN's environmental education program are always welcomed at education@earthday.net.
In this edition of the Educators Network Update Newsletter:
1. Live Chat with Global Warming Experts - Help Spread the Word!
2. New Edition of Environmental Jeopardy
3. Register Your Earth Day Event
4. Other News from EDN Regarding Earth Day
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1. Live Chat with Global Warming Experts - Help Spread the Word
On Friday, April 21, Earth Day Network will host a live chat with world-renowned global warming experts. The event will be broadcast over the internet live from the George Washington University and will be accessible to all interested classrooms. Additionally, high school and college classrooms that sign up with EDN will be able to have their questions about global warming answered directly by these experts. The panel includes Dr. David Battisti, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington; Dr. John Harte, professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley; and Dr. John Reilly, Associate Director for Research in the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We need your help to spread the word about this unique event! Here are the details:
Interested high school and college classrooms can ask the panelists questions through email and have them answered in real-time through the video webcast. To sign up for this great opportunity send an email with the subject heading "Climate Change Live Chat" to education@earthday.net by Friday, March 17. Include in the text your school's name and location, and the grades and subjects you teach.
Classrooms or other groups that are unable to directly participate in the event may still view the event live on April 21 by going to the Earth Day Network website. The only technology requirement is an internet connection and more detailed information regarding the event will periodically be available from the EDN website.
The webcast will subsequently be available to download from the EDN website for those who are unable to view the event live.
EDN will hold an essay contest for classrooms that watched the webcast. Students can write a two-page essay on what they learned from the panelists and how it has influenced them to take action. Winners will receive prizes and recognition on the EDN website. More detailed information on the essay contest will be available at a later date
EDN needs you to help spread the word about this event! Email this information to your friends, other educators, administrators, and community leaders in your area! The first step to slowing climate change is education and awareness.
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2. New Edition of Environmental Jeopardy
In time for Earth Day, the fourth edition of Environmental Jeopardy is currently available from the Teacher's Corner of the Earth Day Network website. This edition's theme is "A Changing Climate" and focuses on global warming issues. The subjects include: "Causes of Climate Change", "Climate Change History", "The Outlook: Life and Land", "Solutions to Climate Change", and "What You Can Do". Environmental Jeopardy has two sets of questions, one for primary school and one for secondary school, has in-depth information on each topic, and resources to help your students find out more about the issues covered in this edition. To download Environmental Jeopardy, log-in to your account on the Teacher's Corner here: http://www.earthday.net/involved/teachers/editTeacher.aspx, then click on the orange "Environmental Jeopardy" icon. If you have forgotten your username or password, please send an email request to education@earthday.net.
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3. Register Your Earth Day Event
What are you doing for Earth Day this year? Let EDN and the world know by registering your event on the EDN website. Earth Day Network's goal is to get 10,000 events registered on our website. Posting your event is free, quick, and easy and is a great way to let others know how you are celebrating this great and important day. Events do not need to take place on April 22 to be considered an Earth Day Event. Make Earth Day 2006 memorable for your students! To post an event, login to the Teacher's Corner and click on the "Add New Earth Day Event" link in the top right-hand corner of the screen. Follow the directions from there.
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4. Other News from EDN Regarding Earth Day
The thirty-sixth anniversary of Earth Day is drawing near and our 3-year campaign to build the political will to solve global warming will launch throughout the month of April, leading up to Earth Day itself on April 22. Below is a summary of what EDN is preparing for the 15,000 organizations in 170 countries and the more than 100,000 k-12 teachers that are working with us on Earth Day and climate change throughout the year:
EDN will shortly launch the Earth Day IPTV television network (www.earthday.tv) which will include hours of interviews, documentaries, film clips and compelling visual and interactive information on climate change from leading independent films such as "Nobelity" and "The Great Warming", cable television networks such as Lime, public and broadcast television networks and leading television production groups. The Earth Day TV Network will be available worldwide to anyone with high speed internet, and will look much like a regular television broadcast. EDN is partnering with Google Video as part of this IPTV launch.
EDN's media partner, Lime Television Network (part of Revolution Living LLC), is working closely with EDN to create compelling content on the climate change issue, and providing content for EDN's new media outreach initiatives. Lime is also working with EDN to create "Earth Day in a Box" that will help thousands of volunteers join in the effort to focus on climate change on Earth Day this year.
EDN is working with Microsoft to launch an interactive MSN Spaces' Earth Day community page that will include blogs, interactive content such as the Eco Footprint, and commentary on climate change solutions. The MSN Spaces Earth Day site will be promoted to Microsoft's worldwide network as we get closer to Earth Day.
EDN will launch a new flash video on climate change. The launch, slated for early April, is done in partnership with the creators of the wildly successful "Meatrix" flash animation video. The flash film is being produced with the support of Stonyfield and Joel Makower.
Our partners and thousands of concerned citizens will host over 20,000 events in the United States alone on Earth Day.
We expect more than 2,000 Earth Day sermons to be delivered on Earth Day Sunday on climate change.
Close to 80% our nation's K-12 schools will be holding Earth Day events and activities.
More than 10 major cities in China will be holding Earth Day events and EDN and our partner, Global Village Beijing, will be premiering our third television movie - this one on climate change - on government television (reaching 500 million households a day) later this year.
EDN will help more than 100 low income community groups hold their first Earth Day and voter registration events in the U.S.; and thousands of our partner groups outside the US will use climate change as their theme for Earth Day.
EDN is excited to join with Chevy and Jayni Chase to hold an on-line Earth Day charity auction featuring golf with Bill Murray, dinner with Bill Clinton, and lots of other great experiences.
* We will be co-sponsoring an international summit on nuclear energy and nuclear proliferation in Kiev and sponsoring a march with the victims of Chernobyl on the 20th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear power disaster.
These are a few of the major happenings this Earth Day. We hope that you will join with us to hold an Earth Day event in your home this Earth Day (Saturday, the 22nd) and use Earth Day to take civic actions to stop global warming.
For more information about the EDN Educators Network and educational resources, please visit the Teachers Corner of the Earth Day Network Web site at www.earthday.net. Please feel free to email us at education@earthday.net if you have questions, comments or suggestions.
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