I am the media specialist at Toccoa Elementary and we do not do a TV broadcast. I have only been there for one year but I have taught at the school for 8 years prior and we have never had a broadcast. I do plan to start a broadcast next year. We are going to film it using the digital video camera and imovie and we plan on doing it once a month. It will be more like a newsbreak than a morning show. I want to use a different grade each month to make the broadcast. I have not worked out all of the kinks but hopefully we will be up and making some type of effort by next school year.
We do have a close circuit system in the library. We use this to show items that need to be seen school-wide, such as fund raisers, PTO news, etc. Teachers also show videos on it that need to be seen by the whole group or by a set of teachers. During this year's presidential elections we aired commercials by both candidates that the kids produced and filmed. The close circuit is also used to show videos school-wide on special occassions and holidays. The teachers have access to all channels.
Our school loves United Streaming. Teachers pull from this resource on a daily basis. I have also downloaded a couple of videos onto the ipods. This has been a huge hit and teachers are asking for more. United Streaming is a great resource to have if you use Promethean or Smart boards in the classrooms.
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Lori, I love the idea of downloading the videos from GPB to the ipods...what a wonderful use of these resources! I am curious how the teacher uses them in the classroom on the ipods...do individuals view them or do the teachers show them from their computers?
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you are considering a broadcast next year. The students love to see themselves on the school TV and it will be a great teambuilding type of activity for the grade level.
I have never thought of download the United Streaming videos to ipods. What a great idea! We use United Video Streaming a lot in my classroom. there are great teacher resources that come with the videos like pre and post tests, handouts, and other activities.
ReplyDeleteOur school has a code so students can set up their own account on United Video Streaming to watch the movies at home. We didn't have that feature at my last school. Not many students that I know of have taken advantage of this feature. I don't think it is highly publicized, but it is on the school website.
My current school has all the equipment to do a live show daily. It is very impressive. But at my last school, the technology specialist video taped a show once a week and then put it on the closed circuit for the school to watch. It was a pretty big deal. Students went out into school taping different portions of the show. It was pretty neat.
Good luck with your show next year. I am sure it will be great.