PBS Interactive Resources

PBS and its other member stations provide a host of ongoing and programmatic resources meant to add online interactive components to their thought-provoking on-air offerings. Whether you want specific renovation tips from the guys at This Old House, would like to query reporters at The Newshour on their recent commentary, or desire to share personal thoughts and perspectives on the latest FRONTLINE coverage, and beyond, there’s a PBS interactive resource waiting to put the public back into public television.

PBS interactives include (in alphabetical order):

Bill Moyers Journal: Blog
Bill Moyers returns to public television and invites you to join the dialogue with the Bill Moyers Journal blog, a community of viewers seeking new points of view and expressing and exchanging ideas. The blog offers food for thought, more from Moyers’ guests, fresh voices, articles of note, and blogs from Moyers weighing in himself.

Cyberchase Club's Cyber Science
Kids, have you ever done a math or science project that you were really proud of? The Cyberchase gang encourages you to write a story about it and send it through this interactive site.  Check back soon to see your story posted alongside interactive Cyber art, e-cards, and Cyber games!

For Your Home: "Going Green" Blog
UNC-TV's premier how-to series returns in April to provide energy-saving advice from dynamic DIY duo Vicki Payne and Sloan Rutter. Check out the new FYH "Going Green" Blog, a great way to share how you're making a difference for the environment!

FRONTLINE/World: React
FRONTLINE/World turns its lens on the global community, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television. Now this acclaimed national PBS series invites conversation around FRONTLINE stories seen both on television and the site's comprehensive video archive. FRONTLINE/World's online React section takes your personal thoughts and perspective and shares them with the world.

MediaShift
MediaShift is your guide to the digital media revolution! Hosted by journalist and media expert Mark Glaser, this PBS weblog track how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture. The site provides an array of interactive media, including "your take" message boards, "buzzworthy" blog posts, and the all-new "Idea Lab," full of the latest and greatest in new media feedback.

NOVA Interactives Archive
The highest-rated science series on television brings it's on-air innovation to online audiences with NOVA Interactive. From anthropology articles that allow you to translate ancient cave writings to technology techniques for performing virtual heart transplants to space subjects that will have you building your own rocket ship, NOVA's online companion has an array of interesting interactives waiting for you.

NOW: Feedback Forum
Called "one of the last bastions of serious journalism on TV," NOW brings its great television topics and in-depth discussions to the web with its Feedback Forum. Read the comments of other visitors below or submit your own thoughts, opinions, reactions and ideas regarding topical talks on timely subjects.

The Online NewsHour: Presidential Election Coverage: Vote 2008: RSS Feeds
RSS is an easy way for you to be alerted when content that interests you appears on your favorite websites. Instead of visiting a particular site to browse for new articles and features, RSS automatically tells you when something new is posted online. And if you're a political junkie, The Newshour's Vote 2008 election feeds are the perfect way to stay informed online.

The Online Newshour: Insider Forums
Insider Forum is The Online Newshour's weekly, user-generated interview program. Simply check in each Wednesday for the latest timely online discussions and pose your own topical questions to be answered by experts of the day.

PBS Kids Democracy Project
Ever wonder what it would be like to be President for a Day? Wonder how goverment affects you? Wanna get a feel for what it's like to vote? Do that and more at this PBS for the People site designed to give kids their first look at democracy at work.

PBS Teachers: learning.now
Host Andy Carvin leads educators, parents and childcare providers to the crossroads of online culture & education with this weblog that explores how new technology and Internet culture affect how educators teach and children learn. This interactive site offers a continuing look at how new technology such as wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites, and the always-on culture of the Internet are impacting teacher and students' lives both inside and out of the classroom.

P.O.V Blog
The P.O.V. Blog is all about documentaries: how they're made, what they're about, why we love them. This informative blog brings you round-ups of current documentaries; interviews with documentary filmmakers; sneak peaks of docs-in-progress; guides to other projects and sites related to documentaries; in-depth articles around issues; events and ideas related to documentary film; and more. The P.O.V. Blog is also a place for conversation and debate around all of the above.

This Old House Discussions and Ask This Old House Form Questions
Television's premier home improvement series that's unlocked America's passion for homemaking for nearly 30 years provides even more ways to build viewer confidence with interactive message boards and question forms that allow viewers like  you to speak your mind about the lastest This Old House fixer upper or ask a question and connect with familiar faces such as Norm, Kevin, and Tom.

Wired Science: Community
Can't get enough of this next-gen science series? Then move into Wired Science's official online community hosting program-related features, events and contests that will have you building a high speed camera or at least writing a high speed rant in no time.

Wired Science: Correlations
America's most irreverent and informative new science series hosts this topical group blog composed of scientists, show hosts and producers called Correlations. Have tips, questions or comments about series topics, science, technology or culture? Simply e-mail in and be a part of the official Wired Science blogosphere.