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Gigi Lincoln, good friend, fellow cohort member, and librarian at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek Michigan wrote to share an event that will be of interest to teachers and library media people everywhere. Have your students join the blog and/or the webcast!
Gigi wrote:

Gerda Weissmann Klein will speak in Battle Creek on Monday, April 16, 2007 (two weeks from today). I gave a presentation at the Michigan Association for Media in Education this past fall about Gerda Klein’s upcoming visit to Battle Creek and the opportunity for students to participate in a blog set up at to promote reading of her memoir, All But My Life. Senior citizens from a community college lifelong learning program have even joined the student bloggers. See Battle Creek Enquirer.

We had an overwhelming response from school groups throughout the state of Michigan to attend Gerda’s morning presentation at the W.K. Kellogg Auditorium, receiving requests for more than 3400 students. Because seating is limited to 1911, adults and students have been encouraged to attend Gerda Klein’s evening presentation at 7:00 PM in the W.K. Kellogg Auditorium.

In response to the great interest on the part of students to participate in the project, Merit Network, in collaboration with Internet2, Battle Creek Public Schools, Lakeview School District, Calhoun Intermediate School District, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Klein Foundation will make an Internet/Internet2 broadcast stream of Gerda Klein’s morning presentation available free of charge to viewers in Michigan and throughout the United States. The event will be streamed LIVE over the Internet and Internet2 by Merit Network and will be available in RealMedia, Windows Media, Quicktime, and MPEG2 Multicast format. The video stream will also be archived on the Merit site.

Details are available at http://www.merit.edu/events/kleinwebcast/