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SmallerMUNCIE, Ind. – Ball State University was recently honored for its electronic field trip program by an international media association.
Ball State received first- and second-place awards May 9 at the 2001 Woldmediafestival Global Competition for Modern Media in Hamburg, Germany. The festival is a global competition for modern media and serves as a
gathering for communications professionals.
The electronic field trip program is coordinated by Teachers College and the Office of Outreach at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. The Indiana Academy partners with the best museums in the country to provide unique educational experiences for K-12 students, taking them via interactive television to dinosaur digs and tracking sea turtles.
"I think these awards speak to the quality of the electronic field trips and the accompanying Web sites,” said Mark Kornmann, director of outreach programs. “It is a real honor for Ball State to be recognized by an international panel.”
Last year the Office of Outreach won a gold and silver award for the Web site "Dig it!," a field trip series featuring dinosaur bone excavations.
The “African Voices” electronic field trip won a gold award for educational programming. It was the first of a two-part series with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History highlighting an exhibit on African art, culture, society and history.
The Web site for "How Things Fly," an electronic field trip from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, won a silver award for an educational Web site. The site included interactive curriculum teachers may use in the classroom to expand the live televised program beyond the broadcast into everyday use.
For more information about electronic field trips, go to www.bsu.edu/academy/insite.
(NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information, contact Kornmann at mkornmann@bsu.edu or (765) 285-8106.)
Ball State received first- and second-place awards May 9 at the 2001 Woldmediafestival Global Competition for Modern Media in Hamburg, Germany. The festival is a global competition for modern media and serves as a
gathering for communications professionals.
The electronic field trip program is coordinated by Teachers College and the Office of Outreach at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. The Indiana Academy partners with the best museums in the country to provide unique educational experiences for K-12 students, taking them via interactive television to dinosaur digs and tracking sea turtles.
"I think these awards speak to the quality of the electronic field trips and the accompanying Web sites,” said Mark Kornmann, director of outreach programs. “It is a real honor for Ball State to be recognized by an international panel.”
Last year the Office of Outreach won a gold and silver award for the Web site "Dig it!," a field trip series featuring dinosaur bone excavations.
The “African Voices” electronic field trip won a gold award for educational programming. It was the first of a two-part series with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History highlighting an exhibit on African art, culture, society and history.
The Web site for "How Things Fly," an electronic field trip from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, won a silver award for an educational Web site. The site included interactive curriculum teachers may use in the classroom to expand the live televised program beyond the broadcast into everyday use.
For more information about electronic field trips, go to www.bsu.edu/academy/insite.
(NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information, contact Kornmann at mkornmann@bsu.edu or (765) 285-8106.)
