Quest Atlantis on TV this weekend
So many exciting things are in the works with Quest Atlantis and the partnership with One Planet Education Network! A quick example – the cable network television show, “Designing Spaces, Back to School special” will feature a fabulous segment on Quest Atlantis at work at a middle School in Durham, N.C., and the role OPEN is playing in bringing Quest Atlantis and other similar learning worlds to the world at large. See Video.
This show aired on the Women’s Entertainment Network Friday at 7:30 a.m EST (Aug. 14) and Saturday at 7:00 am EST on The Learning Channel (Aug. 15) and then on local TV stations across the country through the remainder of August. You can also view the NBC video. on the making of this episode. I encourage all of you watch our segment, which showcases a 7th grade teacher, Beth, in North Carolina. Beth’s work with her students (and as a very successful pioneering teacher with this technology) is utterly inspiring. I just wish her teaching partner Kelly could have been with us the day the show was filmed. Their support of each other, their collegiality, is also inspiring. By the way – just in case you wondered who I am – my name is Glenna Musante. I’m working with OPEN in corporate communications, community relations and PR. In this capacity, I help in the effort to bring QA to new schools and new school systems. I also look for corporate funding to help pay for the expansion of QA in schools and school systems, and I work with reporters on stories about QA. My work often takes me into school districts that are pioneering this impressive new form of educational content delivery, such as the Durham Public School system. Here. I have had the moving opportunity to meet teachers at the forefront of a new era in education.
I am so impressed by their dedication, enthusiasm and willingness to explore this new territory – and also help their colleagues learn how to use QA to reach our children. With their help, we’re seeing great strides with QA. Students who had given up on school are catching up to grade level; teachers are finding new excitement in their work. “Designing Spaces, Back to School special” begins to tell this story. So I encourage you to tune in this weekend to get a sense of what we’re seeing in the field. It’s a new world, and a great one.
This is so totally cool. It feels wrong to be commenting on someone else’s post of a video with me in it, but I couldn’t help myself. Did I mention how great it is to see the project receiving this type of press? It’s totally cool
It’s exciting that the producers of the show saw the value in sharing the QA story with the world at large and reached out to IU and OPEN and asked us if they could share this story. As QA expands across the globe, I know we’ll have new stories to tell. To the educators who are reading this blog – I welcome and encourage you to tell us your stories, and let me know if I can share your story with the news media.
It’s 6:30 AM, I’ve got my Java brewing, and the TLC on…waiting to see watch my totally awesome son do his thing. Doesn’t feel the least bit wrong to be commenting on someone elses’ comment on someone else’s comment with him in it