World of Viruses

描述（由申请人提供）：内布拉斯加大学博物馆、声印媒体中心公司（SMCI）、NIH/ ncrr资助的内布拉斯加州病毒学中心和美国生物科学研究所与全国公认的科学作家卡尔·齐默（Carl Zimmer）合作，提出了一项综合教育媒体倡议，向公众传授尖端病毒学研究。这个名为“病毒的世界”的项目将为公共和卫星广播电台制作纪录片，并与先进的图书馆、教育工作者和初高中学生相辅相成。我们的目标是通过以下方式对公众进行病毒学教育：1)传达病毒学研究和临床试验对不同人群健康、社区和环境的重要性；2)在广播电台、病毒学研究人员、公共图书馆和教育工作者之间建立伙伴关系，使公众能够获得社区资源，以了解更多关于病毒学的知识。3)引起公众——特别是初高中青年——对病毒学事业的兴趣。我们提出了一个包含15个广播纪录片的综合方案，加上15个8分钟的专题，以及一个为公共图书馆、教育工作者和初高中学生设计的强有力的扩展组件包。电台节目将邀请著名的病毒学研究人员讨论他们的现实工作和经历。作为这些广播节目的战略性补充，还将提供一套创新的非正式学习方案，该方案将以标准和探究为基础的学习与最新的信息技术相结合。这个以社区为基础的外展模块的基础是一个高分辨率图像、基于查询的活动、播客和可通过网络访问的文件的数字包。这包括随时可下载的、可定制的材料，供图书馆在电台播放节目时用作特别展览，供高中和初中学生直接下载材料，用于他们的项目和论文，供教育工作者将有关病毒的活动纳入他们的课程。该网络包还旨在帮助公共图书馆与6-12名教育工作者合作，该项目将为电台和图书馆提供协助，以协调他们的工作。拥有11,000多名成员的公共图书馆协会是该计划的合作伙伴，初中和高中教育者已经在使用的流行网站，包括加州大学的理解进化网站，美国生物科学研究所的行动生物科学网站，以及WWW上的所有病毒学网站。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Nebraska State Museum, Soundprint Media Center, Inc. (SMCI), the NIH/NCRR-funded Nebraska Center for Virology, and the American Institute for Biological Sciences working with Carl Zimmer, a nationally recognized science writer, propose an integrated educational media initiative to teach the public about cutting-edge virology research. The project, called World of Viruses, will develop documentaries for public and satellite radio stations that are complemented with a sophisticated libraries, educators, and middle and high school students. Our goal is to educate the public about virology by: 1) Conveying the importance of virology research and clinical trials to diverse people's health, communities, and environments; 2) Creating partnerships between radio stations, virology researchers, public libraries, and educators to give the public access to community resources to learn more about virology, and 3) Interesting the public - especially middle and high school aged youth - in virology careers. We are proposing an integrated package of 15 radio documentaries coupled with 15 eight-minute features and a strong outreach component package designed for public libraries, educators, and middle and high school students. Radio shows will feature prominent virology researchers discussing their real-life work and experiences. The radio programs will be strategically complemented by an innovative informal learning package - one that blends standards- and inquiry-based learning with the latest information technologies. The foundation of this community-based outreach module is a digital package of high resolution images, inquiry-based activities, podcasts, and files accessible via the web. This includes readily downloadable, customizable materials for libraries to use as a special exhibit during the time stations broadcast the programs, for high school and middle school students to directly download materials for integration into their projects and papers, and for educators to incorporate activities about viruses into their programs. This web package also is designed to help public libraries work with 6-12 educators, and the project will provide assistance for stations and libraries to coordinate their efforts. The Public Library Association with over 11,000 members is a partner in this program, as are popular websites already used by middle and high school educators, including the University of California's Understanding Evolution website, the American Institute of Biological Sciences' Action Bioscience.org, and All of the Virology on the WWW.