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Going EAST: Student and Teacher POVs

Students make sense of local history while creating an award-winning documentary, and an old-school teacher finds new inspiration though the Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative. Find out what the EAST Initiative is all about.

Students make sense of local history while creating an award-winning documentary, and an old-school teacher finds new inspiration though the Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative. Find out what the EAST Initiative is all about.
Credits | Release Date: 11/7/07

Video Credits

Produced, Written, and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Associate Producer:

  • Amy Erin Borovoy

Editor:

  • Kris Welch

Camera Crew:

  • Rob Weller
  • Jeff Woodward

Narrator:

  • Kris Welch

Original Music:

  • Ed Bogas

Still Photographs Courtesy of

  • Elaine Warrington
  • Fountain Lake High School
  • © 2007
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved

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Going EAST: Student and Teacher POVs
Students make sense of local history while creating an award-winning documentary, and an old-school teacher finds new inspiration though the Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative.

EAST: Who Are These People?
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Christine,

You can find out more about EAST by reading the article that accompanies this video segment. Click on the link just above the video player screen. The EAST Web site also has information about how to participate.

Christine

East labs

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How do you get one of these East Labs? That is the best idea I have seen for intergrating technology and regular classes.