1938…..this was the year of the first graduating class at Jordan High School.
1940…. Jordan students enjoyed programs, which were broadcast into the cafeteria by clubs and classes on the service club's amateur radio station.
Present…announcements are made each morning over the intercom.
I am embarrassed to admit that not much has changed at Jordan High School in the way of video distribution systems. Our teachers have never taken an interest in having students do a broadcast using the video distribution system. I attempted to start a program using our journalism students but the administrators didn’t approve this. We are, however, grateful for Channel One. We are in our 3rd year using Channel One. The12-minute Channel One news is broadcasted daily to nearly six million teens in approximately 8,000 middle schools and high schools across the country. Channel One offers outstanding teacher resources, as well. I encourage you to check out the teacher resources at http://www.channelone.com/teachers/.
The Georgia Public Network and United Streaming are awesome. I have used these resources often with our teachers. Our teachers have,also benefited from the webinars offered by Georgia Public Network. PBS and NPR present a free lecture series-GPB’s Educational Forum at http://forum-network.org/. TV411 is a television series for adults who want to strengthen their math and language skills. This is a part of GPB and can be reviewed at http://www.tv411.org/. The resources at http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ are unbeatable. The teachers at Jordan use the videos from this website quite often. The history teachers seem to get the most use out of it. (The trouble that I have as the media specialist is teachers that save the videos to their share drive and take up valuable space.)
I challenge you to take a look at the websites I have highlighted in this blog, so many resources….so little time!
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I loved Channel One when I was at a previous school! Everything they showed was so relevant to the lives of the students. Many students just don't go home and turn on the news, so Channel One provided the news for them. I did not ask my media specialist about having Channel One at my current school; I will have to propose that question when we return from spring break. Thanks for reminding me of Channel One's great resources!!
ReplyDeleteI remember that my first year teaching, we got the TVs for Channel One, and everyone was excited that they wouldn't have to roll the TV down from the media center. However, everyone was concerned about the "catch": what would the kids be "forced" to watch? Fortunately, the programming was good and relevant, and the kids were engaged and participating in the quizzes. Today, since we have the TVs and the contract has run out, there is no interest in moving forward in that direction. We have SMARTboards in every classroom, so even the TVs have become irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteIn our school, we use MediaCast, a live TV streaming service that connects into Discovery Streaming as well as full-length films. Basically, if it has been digitized, we can get it via MediaCast. The only problem is that we can't get "Romeo and Juliet", for instance, and there are several other programs that we cannot get unless we subscribe to their "premium" service (I think "Magic Schoolbus" was one).
The "GPB lady" came to our county media specialist meeting in January and gave us the scoop on how many resources are available through GPB. You wanna know the best of what she showed us? The CURRICULUM STANDARDS that they've already linked to each film segment. Sweet. We have to justify our existence in these dark days. They're giving us the tools to do it.
I can honestly say I have never heard of Channel One. I am definitely going to look into it after reading this blog.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that GPB and United Streaming are awesome resources. I can see how saving the videos to the shared drive would take up alot of space. We recommend to the teachers at our school that they download the videos to the desktops of their county assigned teacher laptops that way they are easily accessible and they can be attached to the mounted LCD projector in their classroom for a quick and easy presentation.
Wendy, that is a great point about the Curriculum Standards that are linked to the films in GPB. That is so beneficial and useful to the classroom teachers.
Dawn, thanks for the great links! I am definitely going to research them!
I love the way you drew the reader in to your blog. I thought you were presenting a timeline of the advance in technology and then....nope. Every school is very different, with their own strengths and weaknesses. Remember that a SLMS cannot do a broadcasting show alone. It is a huge commitment by a number of staff members. I loved the Channel One Resource. I had never heard of it but was very impressed by its quality and easy access. I wish there were something like that on the elementary level. Because I never actually signed up for an account, I never found if there was a charge for the service. Is there?
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