Sharks to School ASTA Educators

In association with the Charleston IMAX theater co-located with the South Carolina Aquarium, the ASTA staff invites ASTA Educators to join them for the Wednesday, 8 November, 6:00 PM screening of Sharks3D.  This optional event will follow the 4th Biennial ASTA Education Under Sail Forum.  Producer Jean-Michel Cousteau said of this movie, “The minute I saw this amazing footage, I knew I had to be involved with this documentary.  To inspire and educate people to act responsibly in order to ensure the preservation of the world’s oceans is a mission the film and I have long shared.”  What better conclusion to a day discussing ocean literacy than a three-dimensional immersion into the watery world of these magnificent beasts.  Movie information is available on the Sharks3D web site.  In support of ASTA’s ocean literacy goals, IMAX Charleston will provide ASTA Educators with Sharks3D Educator’s Guides, Companion Guides, and other teaching resources.  Be sure to bring your chum, er, chums.  –Posted by Eric J. Shaw, Ph.D., ASTA Education Director.

Sailing Through History

 CHARLES W. MORGAN

“After we returned to Lunenburg in June 2003 from our third voyage around the world in the Picton Castle, I got a letter from friends and colleagues at Mystic Seaport.” Writes Picton Castle Captain Dan Moreland.  He continues with,  ”They asked me if I would be interested in talking about a project idea they had had to do with the Picton Castle’s 2005-2006 world voyage and the Morgan.”  And thus was born (or is it borne?) PICTON CASTLE’s Sail Through History. 

PICTON CASTLE

Measurement: The Propaganda of Numbers

The October 13, 2006 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education contains a thought-provoking article on measurement, statistics, and education.  While the examples used come from university level programs, the conclusions drawn by the author, Clifford Adelman, speak to our conference theme across all levels of our education programs under sail.  Plus, he opens in great sea-faring tradition by citing Moby Dick.