Professional Development/Program Materials Howdy, I have been working with a small, quite fine, educational publisher, Kendall/Hunt on some video and teacher microcosmic-Gaia materials developed with the marvelous Lynn Margulis. We developed the quite amazing microscopy footage initially for a Museum exhibit. The published materials, however, are for teachers to use in their classrooms. I spoke with the publisher about what I have perceived over the years as resources and needs of the museum community: essentially that many large and smallscience, natural history, environmental and art museums - develop/produce many fine programs that deserve dissemination to their colleagues in useable forms - museums/nature centers are under increasing pressure, pleasant though it may be, to serve the professional development needs of regionalteachers and could use materials that recognize the nature of the museum milieu and hands-on, inquiry based blah blah needs of the formal education sector I would very much appreciate your input on my rather anecdotal analysis. Do many of you do teacher workshops/professional development in service and/or preservice? Do you have needs for materials and programs to serve this constituency? Have you developed materials program BOTH for this sector and for your general audiences that you think would be grand to share with other museums/schools? Would you have any interest in a consortia to cooperatively develop and share materials. Thanks in advance for any and all input. PS... I have your thank-you present Anita! ...a signed copy of Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan new bookWHAT IS LIFE. I will pop it in the mail this weekend. It is grand. Lois Lois Brynes Deep-Time Associates [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Lois