WATERS
TO THE SEA: THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER
CD-ROM Wins World’s Top Environmental Multi-Media
Award
ST. PAUL, Minn. (October 15, 2004) – The interactive CD-ROM Waters to the Sea: The Chattahoochee River was honored with the world’s top environmental multi-media award at the bi-annual Wildscreen Festival in Bristol, England, the world’s largest and most prestigious environmental media festival.
Hamline competed with the world’s top wildlife and nature production entities at the festival. Other finalists included the BBC, The National Geographic Society, The Discovery Channel and PBS and other major international media production companies representing some 40 countries. World-renowned filmmakers and environmental leaders who gave presentations at the festival included Sir David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall, Dr Richard Leakey, and Professor Richard Dawkins. CGEE shared top honors for the Interactive Panda Award with a BBC website on mammals that is a companion to a broadcast series on the same subject.
Interactive Panda winners (L to R): Tracy Fredin,
the BBC’s Lisa Sargood,
and John Shepard.The program was produced in close working partnership with the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, a river advocacy group in Atlanta, Georgia, and Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center of Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia. Funding was provided by Coca-Cola North America, Georgia Power, the Robert Woodruff Foundation, and Georgia’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
The CD-ROM explores the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola rivers from ancient times to the present. Three historic guides (actors shot on digital video portraying carefully researched historic characters in period dress) lead users on an adventure that investigates the human events and land-use practices that have helped shape the landscape and environmental quality of rivers in the Southeast. Multi-media activities help connect these lessons in environmental history with hydrology, ecology and the science of water quality.
The Waters to the Sea series has just begun. In 2000 Waters to the Sea: Rivers of the Upper Mississippi, a CD-ROM that explores the rivers in the Upper Midwest, was followed by the Chattahoochee River CD. The series will continue to explore rivers and water ecosystems throughout the United States.
The Center for Global Environmental Education is part of Hamline’s Graduate School of Education. The Graduate School of Education is committed to inspiring, challenging, and transforming teachers to improve learning for all children.
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