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DEUTSCHE WELLE (DW TV) is one of the world’s largest international public broadcasters. DW works with broadcasters worldwide to distribute news, cultural programming and documentaries with a unique focus on Europe. DW TV is funded by the German government as a public service, much like the BBC and CPB. Programs are produced from its Berlin-based studios. The network also produces radio programs in over 30 languages and provides information as well as audio and video via it's international web site dw-world. It's US offices are in Massachusetts and Washington DC.

CLASSIC ARTS SHOWCASE is designed to bring the classic arts experience to the largest audience possible by providing short video clips of the arts in hopes that we may tempt you, the viewer, to go out and feast from the buffet of arts available in your community. The spectrum of classic arts disciplines aired on Classic Arts Showcase includes video samplings of animation, architectural art, ballet, chamber and choral music, dance, folk art, museum art, musical theater, opera, orchestral, recital, solo instrumental. solo vocal, and theatrical performances, as well as classic film and archival documentaries.

EDUCATION NEWS PARENTS CAN USE is the U.S. Department of Education's monthly television program aboutfor parents and community members. On the third Tuesday of each month during the school year, Education News provides parents with the tools and information they need to be effectively involved in their children's learning. This is your opportunity to ask a question of the experts and the other participants—drawn from communities like yours—on what works to improve teaching and learning in schools and in the home.

NASA CONNECT is an annual series of integrated mathematics, science, and technology instructional distance learning programs for students in grades 6-8. Each program has three components: (1) a 30-minute television broadcast, which can be viewed live or taped for later use; (2) an interactive web activity which provides educators an opportunity to use technology in the classroom setting; and (3) a lesson guide describing a hands-on activity. These three components — television broadcast, web activity, and lesson guide — are designed as an integrated instructional package.

In 2001, Shamu TV is offering classrooms nationwide a season of wildlife adventures. Geared toward elementary and middle school audiences, each 25-minute show is packed with environmental education - from biology, ecology and zoology to geography, math, history and even language arts. Since 1991, Shamu TV has received seven regional Emmys for Outstanding Children's Programming, Feature Segments and Educational Programming.

NASA's Destination Tomorrow™ focus on NASA research; including new technologies, advanced aerodynamics, past achievements and medical breakthroughs. Each exciting program gives an inside look at NASA and demonstrates how research and technology relates to our everyday lives. If it's cutting edge technology, medical breakthroughs or advanced aeronautical research - NASA's Destination Tomorrow™ will bring it to you first.

Prince William Network is the award winning distance learning arm of The Prince William County Public Schools in Northern Virginia. Productions are the product of teachers and school media professionals working to provide the best in instruction and staff development to teachers, students, parents and administrators across the country. Broadcasting from Hylton High School, students crew a state-of-the-art television studio to bring relevant programming directly into classrooms, ours and yours.

The NASA SCIence Files™ is a series of instructional programs consisting of broadcast, print, and online elements. Emphasizing standards-based instruction, Problem-Based Learning, and science as inquiry, the series seeks to motivate students in grades 3-5 to become critical thinkers and active problem solvers. Each program supports the national mathematics, science, and technology standards.