Monday, November 17, 2008
School TV news -Julie Bigham
At South Paulding Middle School, home of the panthers, we have the Panther News Network every day. The Panther News Network, PNN, is organized and run by one of the gifted teachers (she may not be gifted, but the kids in her class are :0). In the morning we have a class period called NBI, or Needs Based Instruction, and this is the time that students work on the broadcast for the next day. The kids for the PNN class are chosen based on their test scores (ITBS and CRCT). Basically, they are kids that are not being remediated in any academic area. About 95% of the students are qualified as gifted. The kids have to go through an audition in the beginning of the year, unless they were members of the crew the previous school year. Crew members must maintain high academic standards in order to remain on the crew. Students are trained in all of the various positions (camera, script, PPT, anchor, etc.) and they work on a rotating schedule. We do not currently have a working video distribution system, however, the teacher that runs PNN is able to pipe out the live broadcast to the various rooms in the building. The only problem right now is that the mobile units are not wired to receive the broadcast, so they miss it. We do play Channel One every morning prior to the PNN broadcast. Teachers at SPMS also use United Streaming often. Classes in the building have mounted projectors that make it very easy to use United Streaming. This year (my first year as the media specialist), I ordered enough LCD projectors for our mobile units, so they can now access United Streaming, as well. Our news broadcast is a combination of power point and live student news broadcast. The morning broadcast begins with a moment of silence and then the Pledge of Allegiance. Next, the broadcasters give any important announcements regarding school events, such as sports, fundraisers, menu for lunch,etc. Occasionally, students will interview members of teams and other students. I think that it is really nice that students are primarily responsible for the creation and execution of the school news.
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I really just have several questions for you, I hope you get a chance to answer them. How is the gifted teacher getting the news out without the distribution system? Are you involved in this operation at all? From your description it sounds like you are not, but maybe you do have some small role in it. I think that they should really work on getting the news show in the mobile classrooms because there may be some kids who want to get involved and they dont even know the news show exist.
I like the idea how the gifted students are in charge of this news production. We ran into the same problem last year with the mobile units. I am so thankful this year to not have to hold the intercom speaker phone up to the tv as the announcements are playing. It was very difficult to stay focused and not speak while I was holding the phone. The one advantage that I miss from the pledge and national anthem being broadcast across the intercom is that students who are in the hall and not in their classroom could hear this and stop in the hallway to pledge the flag. This year without it being on the intercom students often do not know that the pledge and national anthem are playing and students are walking, talking, and not paying attention to the program.
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