CARLA SEAL-WANNER
Education & Curriculum
Since receiving a masters and doctorate in Human Development from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Dr. Seal-Wanner has applied her expertise working with both public and commercial television, government agencies, new media publishing groups, interactive television, and on-line service providers creating educational media for toddlers to adults. Carla has participated in the development of many award-winning children’s shows and the ancillary interactive media products created to enhance them, including; CTW’s 3-2-1 Contact, Square One TV, and Reading Rainbow on PBS, and Nicklelodeon’s Blue’s Clues. After spending a decade combining careers as a children’s TV producer and professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she created and directed The Graduate Program in Instructional Technology and Media, a pioneering curriculum that applied the theories of cognitive and developmental psychology, visualization, instructional design, evaluation, and computer-mediated learning to the development of effective media for children, Carla moved into full time broadcast and multimedia production, and media advocacy. Currently, as the Executive Director of the non-profit organization, Climate Cartoons and creator of The Climate Cartoon Digital Toolkit, which facilitates the independent creation of animated films by students, she has combined her deep commitment to environmental stewardship with her passion for providing students with the dynamic new media tools to express themselves creatively. She will be bringing this work into FlickerLab’s green media initiatives including its newly launched animated ecoliteracy show for 8-12 year olds, The Wild Life.