NSF Award Abstract - #0229219 |
NSF Org | ESI |
Latest Amendment Date | January 30, 2004 |
Award Number | 0229219 |
Award Instrument | Continuing grant |
Program Manager |
Valentine H. Kass ESI Division of Elementary, Secondary & Informal Education EHR Directorate for Education & Human Resources |
Start Date | December 1, 2002 |
Expires | November 30, 2004 (Estimated) |
Awarded Amount to Date | $505545 |
Investigator(s) | Gene Searchinger Equinoxfilms@mindspring.com (Principal Investigator) |
Sponsor |
Ways of Knowing, Inc. 200 West 72nd Street, Suite 46 New York, NY 10023 / - |
NSF Program(s) | INFORMAL SCIENCE EDUCATION |
Field Application(s) | 0000099 Other Applications NEC |
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Ways of Knowing, Inc. is producing two one-hour film documentarties for public television on the origin, nature and history of writing. "The Writing Project" (working title) is about the study of writing as a technology. The goal of the films is to explain how writing systems work and to make people aware of the importance of writing in societies. The programs will address what reading and writing is, how writing was invented and how it is used in dozens of different systems around the world. The focus is on the diversity, yet sameness, of writing systems and on the grand variety of its uses. The target audience is the PBS television audience, with follow-up educational viedocassette distribution to schools and colleges to be used as an introduction to linguistics "basic text." The program's outreach will be enhanced by a companion website and book.