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Documentary Segments Created by Feel the History

Click to see the program segments created by Feel the History students.

Awards and Recognition

Indiana Computer Educators Awards

Jon Carl has been named the ICE Teacher of the Year for 2008.

Terry Hughes has been named the ICE Technology Education Advocate for 2008.

Terry Hughes has also become a Discovery Star Educator.

More Awards for Jon

Jon Carl was named Indiana's American Star of Teaching for 2007 by the US Department of Education. See the press release.

Jon Carl was named to the National School Boards Association's list of "20 to Watch." He was presented the award in mid-October 2007 at the Technology and Learning Conference in Nashville, TN.

Jon Carl has been named the Caleb Mills History Educator of the Year by the Indiana Historical Society.

Awards for Feel the History

Feel the History is a recipient of a Rotary/Public Education Foundation grant for the 2007-2008 school year.

Presentations

Feel the History presented at the Technology Expo on Saturday, March 15th at Ivy Tech Community College. The Expo was sponsored by the Public Education Foundation, the EVSC, IVY Tech, Toyota, and Discovery Education.

Jon Carl and Terry Hughes presented at the Great Lakes Regional Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies in February 2008.

Jon Carl, Rob Spear, and Terry Hughes presented a concurrent session at the Indiana Computer Educators 2008 Conference January 25, 2008. Click to see our ICE 2008 Page.

Feel the History Presented at the Indiana Council of History Educators in 2007. Click to see the PowerPoint used by Jon Carl and Terry Hughes.

Feel the History Students Win National Contests

	Feel the History has been named the Grand Prize Winner for school districts over 20,000 population in the 2009 American School Board Journal's Magna Awards competition sponsored by Sodexo School Services. Click to go to the Magna site to learn more about the award.
	A team of Feel the History students has won first place in the Adobe School Innovation Awards. 2008 graduates Rick Yeager, Kourtney Bryant, Chris Deig and Craig Austin submitted the winning entry in the Film and Video category of the first Adobe School Innovation Awards program. Click for more information and to see the winning video.
Adobe Recognizes Feel the History
	Adobe has also recognized Feel the History as an Education Success Story featured on its web site. Here is the Education Success Story Link, and here is the specific article about Feel the History. Here is the article as a PDF.

	Feel the History as Podcasts
	The Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library hosts some podcasts of the individual Feel the History episodes. Josh Weiland has prepared the podcasts for the first year's episodes available at http://evpl.org/feelthehistory/ .

Feel the History Air Dates

Episode 304 - to be determined

Channel 9-1 becomes WNIN's main channel after June 12. WNIN will also schedule Feel the History episodes on its channel 9-2.

*Feel the History* projects underway for the 2008-2009 School year (the numbers in parentheses indicate that the segment has been added to an episode sent to WNIN)
Evansville Fire Department	Albion Fellows Bacon
Evansville Chrysler (303)	Burdette Park (301)
Fire at St. Boniface (301)	Brewing in Evansville (303)
FJ Reitz 1961 Football Team (301)	Evansville's Service in War - dispersed across several programs.
Benjamin Bosse	Deer Extinction and Revival
Howell, Indiana	Growing Up in WWII Evansville (303)
1811 Earthquake	Lincoln's Neighborhood
Korean War Reserve Activation

FtH student interviewing William Bartelt, author of There I Grew Up. Mr. Bartelt's book is about Abraham Lincoln's boyhood years in Indiana. The interview is at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, IN.

Feel the History Critical Reviews and Premieres

Critical Review	Premiere
November 18, 2008	December 10, 2008
January 14, 2009	February 5, 2009
February 18, 2009	March 4, 2009
April 16, 2009

Critical Reviews are at 8:00 AM at the EVSC Professional Development Center, 401 E. Columbia Street, Evansville, IN 47711 • (812) 435-5290.

Premieres are at 11:00 AM in the Media Center of F. J. Reitz High School, 350 Dreier Blvd. • Evansville , IN 47712 • (812) 435-8206.