Reports Kristen Cates in The Southern Illinoisan: "Through WSIU, the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale was able to secure grant funding from PBS KIDS Go! to work on a virtual tour of the forest and create an interactive Internet Web site.
Beth Spezia, outreach coordinator for WSIU Public Broadcasting, said this is part of a yearlong Trees Across America grant that will focus on the theme of ecology. . . .
The children have been learning how to use digital cameras and videos. Friday, they spent a few hours in the New Media Center on SIUC's campus learning how to create a movie. . . . Using recent photos and videos taken at the club, the children spent time learning how to mesh the photos together and create a video.
Ultimately, this will be a lesson the kids can use when it comes time to creating their Trees Across America software . . . . Once that software is built, . . . it will be distributed to all of the Boys and Girls Clubs across the country as a training video and lesson plan about different trees in the forests.
Bryan Gottschalk, tech center director at the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale, said not only will this teach other children about ecology, but it offers something to the kids in Carbondale as well."
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