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ABC News Boston (Ch. 5, WCVB) Features Story on students learning about global change using Classroom Encounters DVDs. Shot live, at Wellesley High School!
Broadcast as part of the evening news, 5-6:30 PM, Tuesday, 10/30/07.
An Inconvenient Truth's
Laurie David meets Rita and students!
Laurie David, a producer of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth with Rita
Chang and two of her students.There was a private "meet and greet" gathering for Ms. Laurie David, a producer of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth at MassBay Community College. Ms. Chang, two of her students, and Ms. Mirkin, Principal of Wellesley High were invited to join College President, Provost, Deans, and several members of the faculty at a screening of the film. The private meeting set off sparks between everyone in the room so hopefully more good things will come from this "encounter." (The Classroom Encounters DVDs were also a hit!) Talk is ongoing about how Classroom Encounters, Wellesley High, and Mass Bay might creatively work together to further climate change education.
Click here to read our Boston Globe article
Excerpt: "Daniel Schrag , a Harvard geochemist who appears in the series, applauded Chang's vision. `'Typically things that are new ideas in science or new observations take decades before they are taught at the high school level. . . . Really good teachers change that,' said Schrag, who directs the Harvard University Center for the Environment."
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Wellesley Cable T.V. Interviewed Rita Chang for Cable News Show!
Also interviewed were Ms. Chang's students on what impact the series has had on them, and how they have been involved with Global Change before and after exposure to the series. The interviews were shown with the broadcasting of the first two DVDs in the series.
Excerpts from recent Classroom Encounters considered for the Museum of Science Exhibit Floor
The Museum of Science’s Science and Technology Forum continues to be an enthusiastic supporter of Classroom Encounters and has proposed the showing film clips from the Classroom Encounters series interspersed with Nova segments on a plasma screen on the floor of the exhibit hall.
Classroom Encounters To Lauch a Fund Raiser Campaign Summer 2008
Now that Classroom Encounters LLC is a sponsored program of the non-profit arts-supporting organization, Fractured Atlas, it's possible for us to launch a fund raising campaign. Both the Wellesley Education Foundation and The Wellesley High School Parent Teachers Students Organization, through the Crockett Fund, provided some seed funding in the fall to help bring two more scientists to Wellesley High School. Funds for post production, editing the films, and creating the DVDs are still needed for Dr. Greg Stone's Ocean Health and Human Impacts, and for Dr. Emanuel's Hurricanes and Climate.
