Re: MCM Education C. Report

[krandall@world.std.com]

At 12:45 PM 4/5/98 -0500, Paul Krombholz wrote:
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>I need some help clarifying the committee structure.  The Management
>committee consists of Education and what other branches?  Membership?
>Finance?  Research?  TAG (publication)?  Communications?  Sales?
>Historian?  Is that all of them?

I've sent out a copy of the organizational chart (after quite a wrestling
match with my computer<g>) which you should get a t the same time as this.
Hopefully that will answer a number of your questions.

>Who is eriko@wrq.com?  Erik Olson?  I see the email list was copied to him,
>and so I am sending this to him, too.

Yes.  He was asked to take the Communications chair just after we asked you
to chair Ed.  I'm sorry if I didn't get news to everyone that he has
accepted. 

>Finding people to write articles should be not just the Ed. Committee's
>job, but the job of everybody active in AGA.

Absolutely!  It is trough TAG that we are best able to promote our
organization to members and prospective members.  This should be a priority
for all of us.

>Karen: You said you were going to forward some correspondence you had with
>Olga regarding surveys.

Yes, Thank you for reminding me.  I'll see if I can get them off to you
tomorrow.

>The slide-video idea requires that slides and videos be collected and kept
>in some central location from whence they can be sent out for use by
>speakers.  What kinds of slides should be collected?   I suggest that first
>we collect a series on setting up a planted aquarium, something like the
>series being shown on the Tropica web site.  Karen?  Do you have anything
>like that?

Yes.  I can whittle down my own program into a simplified how-to.  I was
also thinking that it might make more sense, rather than having a bunch of
slide programs that are easy to get mixed up and/or have slides lost from
that it might make sense to put together the slide programs, then have them
transfered onto video.  We could even have a script dubbed in.  Then we
could, at relatively low cost, have several copies of each program.  They'd
be easier to store and ship.  We could even, if we wanted to, ask for a
deposit, to be returned when the video is returned.

>  The series should record the changes that occur as the weeks go
>by and the pictures should be taken more frequently than what you usually
>see on people's web pages----Here is my tank in January.  Here it is 6
>months later.

I don't have shots like that, but I suppose if I got my self motivated I
could get it done.  Some of my tanks change quite rapidly, others are very
slow growth.

>I have heard that some video cameras have the capability of doing time
>lapse.  If this is true, it would be really interesting to get time lapse
>videos of aquatic plants growing, developing deficiencies, recovering from
>deficiencies, etc.

The only person I know who has done this actually recorded the growth of
sps coral in his reef tank over a period of close to a year.  But he had
the video attached to a computer... certainly far beyond _my_ capabilities!<g>

The other thing I have that I can send you is a large number of slides of
different plants that were taken and donated to AGA by Gary Lange.  He took
the photos for the Gilberg's catalog, and these are the "out takes".  They
are still very good quality in terms of identifying plants as they appear
in the shops, although aesthetically they're not that interesting, as
Gilbergs insisted that he photograph them all against a white background.

Send me your address and I'll send you the slides _and_ the thread leaf
water sprite ;-)

Karen