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Lin
and Tom with WECB's Schramm Award
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Peer Over
A "Horizon"
The connection between culture and place is examined in program #3 of Cultural
Horizons, "Places with
Faces."
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(Tucson - 7/29/03) “Cultural
Horizons of North America,” produced by the Wisconsin
Educational Communication Board (WECB), is the winner of the 2003 Wilbur Schramm Award of Excellence.
The national award, instituted in 1985, recognizes outstanding K-12 educational
media productions. Linda Hanson and Tom
Fletemeyer, ECB's director of school services and executive director, respectively, were
on hand to accept the award, presented at the Education Leadership
Summit held by the National Educational Telecommunication Association (NETA) in
Tucson, Arizona, July 26-29.
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The
winning ten-part series explores the
concept of culture, the range of existing cultures, and cultural identity issues for
children in grades 4-6. It is an
expansion of the Wisconsin-focused Cultural Horizons series
and was produced by WECB in cooperation with Oregon Public Broadcasting, PBS Atlanta,
Rocky Mountain PBS, and Télé-Québec.
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In awarding this year's Schramm to Cultural Horizons, the judges commented on
the outstanding quality of the companion CD-ROM and teacher guide, praising the
correlation to education standards. "This is instruction," said
one judge. "Schramm would be pleased."
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The Schramm Award honors the late Dr. Wilbur Schramm, a
pioneer in mass communications and author of definitive books
in the field. The annual award
competition is sponsored by the
Center for Instructional Communications at NETA. |
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