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 Table of ContentsEarth Day 2008 24 Hour Webcastathon!Webcast Around the Earth Day 2008
 WebcastathonFlyer.pdf - Promotional FlyerEarthcast VoicethreadEarthcast Voicethread - Begin participating in this project now by leaving an audio comment, video comment, or text comment.Student VoicethreadEarth Day PlanningShared Google Doc that the webcast team is using to plan the event (if you'd like to collaborate on this document, contact Matt Montagne).Next meeting:Sunday, April 6th at 18:00 GMT to do a progress check-in (via skype). Click here to see what time the meeting is in your time zone.Participate in the meeting via skype or via Webcast Academy's Live page: http://webcastacademy.net/live . We'll be in Sandbox A. AboutEarth Day is on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008. To celebrate the day, we will be working collaboratively with people around the world to produce and air a live webcast which will last for the entire 24 hours of the GMT day! This is a HUGE challenge and we're hopeful that you'll participate! At this point we're trying to find a webcast academy intern or a webcast academy alumni to sign up to stream an hour or two of the GMT day. It would be nice to take the skype conversations and stream them out via both ustream and World Bridges.You could focus your hour long block in any way that you see fit. You could speak with local business leaders, community members, engineers, scientists, school leaders, architects, professors, politiicans, etc. Of course your conversations don't need to be local-you could certainly speak to anyone potentially (imagine if we could speak with Al Gore...how cool would that be! I think we might blow up ustream and the World Bridges shoutcast server if this happened!) If you are interested in participating, please read the blog post that Matt Montagne put together on this idea. Ideally we would have people from all over the globe moderating the webcast so that we can cover the full 24 hour GMT day (actually, we really want moderators from all over the world to help us all form a more global perspective on this issue). There will be many ways to participate in the day, even if you are not interested in moderating for an hour. You can help by finding interesting speakers to be interviewed or by simply listening along with your classroom. You can also help by advertising the webcast through your various communication channels and social networks. More About the 24 Hour Earth Day 2008 Webcastathon What: This is intended to be a 24 hour long conversation about the health of our planet. We hope to have participants from around the world moderate an hour long conversation. This conversation can be planned at the discretion of the moderator(s) for that hour. Potential guests could include local leaders, student environmental advocates, scientists/engineers, politicians, grassroots leaders, etc. When: Tuesday, April 22nd 2008. We will follow the 24 hour GMT day (et-we'll use the time in Greenwich, England as the standard for planning the time blocks. Why: The goal is to help our participants (both listeners and moderators) form a more global perspective on the issue of sustainability and the health of the earth. Please sign up in the chart below...if you are not interested in moderating an hour but you're willing to help out in some other way, enter you contact information at the bottom of the chart: Registration:
EarthCast BookmarksDelicious Bookmarks : Be sure to tag all of your delicious/diigo bookmarks with earthcast08 as one of the tags.Al Gore's TED Talks Speech (16 Min): http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/1 Earth Day 2008 Planning-Earth Day Network Site Below is a brainstorm of some possible activities for Earth Day week at USM: 2-4-2008 Earth Day Planning Meeting w/Environmental Science Class:
Flower planting... By Grade Levels Monday, April 21st Keynote Speaker-Will Allen or someone else to kick off the week Tuesday, April 22nd (Earth Day!) Blue and Green Day (75% of students wear a blue USM 2008 Earth Day T-Shirt, 25% wear a green USM 2008 Earth Day shirt) Photo taken from tower of students in the shape of planet earth Grade Level Speaker (eg-5th Graders talking with ornaments from everest artist) Wednesday, April 23rd Grade Level Speaker for 6th Grade Thursday, April 24th Grade Level Speakrs for 7th and 8th Grade Friday, April 25th Live, streaming video of environmental summit live from USM Students prepare short little talks relating to important environmental issues...these talks are give live in front of the students and is broadcast out via streaming video online (if streaming video isn't possible, then we look at streaming the audio) For speakers: I think we should do a call for speakers to our faculty, parents and alumni asking them if they know anyone in this industry who would speak with us. Earth Day 2008 Planning Keynote Speaker Possibilities: Will Allen-Growing Power Small Conference Speaker Possibilities (these could be done in small groups in classrooms, or if the speaker comes onsite in Mellowes or the Theater): Robyn Beavers - Chief Sustainability Officer from Google Ward Folwer - Owner of Alterra Coffee in Milwaukee, WI Representative from University of Michigan's Solar Power Car Team: Matt's neighbor who is an environmental law professor at Marquette Note that the content you create on http://enviroscims.wikispaces.com is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License. Please only submit content that you write yourself or that is in the public domain. Learn more about our open content policy. Insert a FileDouble click an image or file to insert it into the page. Upload New File
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