QUESTION: Adding TV Station to School? Looking for help!

Hi,

Where I teach, our principal has agreed to start a TV station. The goal will be to have the kids do the announcements in the morning. The way I see this being organized is to have the kids form a club, then have them break into daily teams, 5 for Monday, 5 for Tuesday etc. My grade 12 journalism class will be responsible for a 90 second news story every day too. Our ten minutes will be gobbled up pretty quick.

Our delivery system will be the Internet, rather than via coax cable.

I would welcome a conversation with anyone currently doing this so I might pick your brains, share ideas.

Many thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Justin on July 10, 2010 at 8:13am

I had a group of 12-14 students. Students usually worked in pairs and were assigned roles. They worked on: opening, announcers, school sports, closing, birthdays, day in history, current events, and around the school (they went & took pics of students). We did the show on movie maker. Each pair created their video clip and I would save their clips and edit and compile them all together in to one big video clip. I would then save the published file on our school server for the teachers to open and show in their classrooms. I did this at a middle school through an enrichment type of class...there was no grade and each show aired on Fridays. I am sure older students could produce a show more than once a week. I worked with accelerated 8th graders. Check them out here:
http://www.schooltube.com/videosearch?q=falcontv&search-submit=...
or go to www.schooltube.com and search "FalconTV". Hope this helps.

Permalink Reply by Mike Gange on July 10, 2010 at 8:42am

Thanks Jason. Interesting concept. Now besides MAC computers, what are you using for cameras? Do you have a designated classroom space or a studio? What mics are you using? desk top in stands, floor mics or lapel mics?

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 10, 2010 at 8:55am

We used pcs not MACs but I know iMovie can probably do this and more. We used regular camcorders and digital cameras from the school...I just rented them out weekly from the media center. I had a designated classroom and checked out the laptop cart everyday for the students to work on. We did not have mics and I would recommend having them. I only had 1 mic for our announcers and it was a desktop mic hooked to a small speaker that I kept under a table out of sight.

PS It's Justin not Jason :)

Permalink Reply by Mike Gange on July 10, 2010 at 8:58am

Mea Culpa. Justin. My eyes don't work early in the morning.

Was your delivery model on the Internet? Was it live or archived and web available?

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 10, 2010 at 9:14am

No, I just saved the published wmv file to a folder on our school server. I would save all our episodes on schooltube afterwords as well. The shows were all taped so they were not live. I am not sure how to broadcast through the internet.

Permalink Reply by Frank W. Baker on July 13, 2010 at 11:53am

The following may be of some help:
http://www.schooltv.com/ (website connected to popular book)

http://studenttelevision.com/index.html

QUESTION: Adding TV Station to School? Looking for help!

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