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February 11, 2006
Discovery Education Commissions Series
Expedition 360 Productions, LLC has recently been commissioned by Discovery Education to produce 3 x 24 minute programs on the geography of Australia.
Entitled 'X-ploring Austalia', the 3-part series will focus on the Australian leg of Expedition 360, during which key aspects of the country's physical and human geography were filmed for the classroom by the expedition media production crew.
Delivery platforms will be VHS and digital video on demand bundled with a teachers curriculum guide. Target age range is 6-8th grade for both the North American market and the rest of the world (aside from the UK for which a custom series aligned to the ENC will be produced). Classrooms can also download 3-4 minute digital 'chapters' via United Steaming (a digital video-on-demand service of Discovery Education).
Each clip includes a small lead-in story on the X360 team's progress through the outback, followed by educational content that adheres to the 18 US National Standards for geography.
It is hoped the series will form a successful model for future programs covering the geographical regions the expedition will be passing through en route to completion: SE Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
>>>> Discovery Education, the newly created division of Discovery Communications, Inc., is the leader in digital video and multimedia-based learning. It incorporates the existing Discovery School product line of over 750 DVDs, videos, CD-ROMs, and print resources, the recently acquired United Learning line of health-education and prevention-curriculum programs, the cutting-edge teacher and student resources of DiscoverySchool.com, and the unitedstreaming digital video-on-demand application—a collection of over 2,300 core-curriculum, standards-based videos—that has been scientifically proven to increase student achievement in two independent evaluations. Discovery Education products reach over 90,000 schools across the United States, serving 1.5 million teachers and their 35 million students each year. For more information, visit www.discoveryed.com.
Posted on February 11, 2006 12:09 AM