NEACT Summer Mini-Conference is this Monday at Clark University.
Great speakers, workshops, networking.
NEACT is THE place for chemistry education.
Attendees the last two summers have been integral to a brand new PBS series,
sure to be a valuable resource for teachers..Read more about Mystery of Matter,
from Steve Lyons, Project Director below. Check your local PBS listings for Aug
19 and 20 premieres in New England.
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Element
https://m.facebook.com/mysteryofmatter
For an e-card to pass on to friends, family members and professional colleagues
who they think might be interested in the program, email blamont@xxxxxxxxxx,
NEACT Publicity Officer.
Not only did NEACT members watch the series evolve, your members also suggested
the idea of the short videos – and helped us select the topics. So you guys had
a big role.
By the way, the Rhode Island Public Television website is now promoting the
series on their home page (with a picture) as “coming in September.” No further
details yet, but it’s nice they’re already calling attention to the series.
There’s a rumor that it may be scheduled for Sunday Aug 23rd at 11 pm!
Encourage your Rhode Island members to contact the station, find out if it’s
scheduled.
A limited PBS website for the series
(www.pbs.org/<http://www.pbs.org/mysteryofmatter>mysteryofmatter) went live
yesterday. In addition to basic information about the series and an opportunity
to buy the DVD or stream the series online (after the broadcast), the PBS site
includes 7 short bonus videos on interesting aspects of the story that didn’t
make it into the broadcast series. (One of the videos is on Madame Lavoisier’s
important role in her husband’s work, for example.) Moreno/Lyons Productions’
own, more ambitious website will go live just before the premiere, and we’ll be
adding new short videos to it each week for a month or more after the premiere,
giving people reasons to keep coming back to the site. There will more than 30
short videos in all, most of them made expressly for chemistry teachers. The
site will also include a Teacher’s Guide for the series.
And finally, the American Chemical Society is offering a special screening of
Episode 1 on Sunday, August 16, from 1:30-3, at the ACS meeting in Boston. Any
teachers who are attending the meeting are free to come and watch this “sneak
preview.”
Please share as much of this information as you can with NEACT members, and
encourage them to like the Facebook page.
Even though the series is not being broadcast during the school year, chemistry
teachers can still play a part in promoting the series and attracting a big
audience.
Please let me know if there’s any other information I can provide.
Best,
Steve
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Stephen E. Lyons
Project Director
The Mystery of Matter:
Search for the Elements
Moreno/Lyons Productions LLC
1300 Soldiers Field Road, Suite 6
Boston, MA 02135
617-789-3900 (phone)
617-789-3901 (fax)
781-307-5806 (cell)
stephenlyons@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:stephenlyons@xxxxxxxxxxx>
