PBS & Higher Education: A Followup

This presentation will provide an overview of Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) activities. GPB's student production apprentice program will be highlighted, in which students from 20 universities statewide are employed as videographers, editors and production assistants; the content they produce is then delivered by the GPB Education and Technology Services division's satellite network to schools and digital media libraries as well as via open-air broadcasts. Partnerships with the Georgia State Department of Education, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Southern University and others will also be discussed.

The University of Wisconsin-Extension has been a leader in developing the applications that take advantage of datacasting - the broadcasting of data via open-air digital television spectrum. Mr. Knight will provide some examples of the practical applications of this technology and why the audience would have an interest in that application. Also, Mr. Knight will connect Penn State University to the presentation and provide an update of the Engaging Faculty project that focuses on connecting Land Grant institution's faculty with the community for engaging partnerships.

Dr. Graham will present this project, The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative. It is an ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to deliver educational content of the Civil Rights Movement via the web. The Initiative will promote an enhanced understanding of the Movement through its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive delivering 30 hours of historical news, film and allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by aggregating metadata on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component that will deliver secondary Web-based resources such as multi-media productions interactive timeline, maps, etc. The partnerships involved will also be highlighted.

Mr. Haarsager will detail the Public Service Publishing project that he is involved with and it's implications for the education community. Mr. Haarsager's work with other PBS initiatives throughout the country has contributed to this initiative and the partnerships that have evolved. The blogging that he has contributed before blogging was as well known has kept Mr. Haarsager at the forefront of facilitating many new discussions about digitizing media and the distribution systems that are being built to allow for the broadest reach and effectiveness for those assets.