It was really neat to go to my second session with Marina View school to learn about their television studio. I don't know if part of my interest was sparked from my former occupation as a journalist or my own enjoyment of being part of a television studio at intermediate but it was the idea of a TV station at school that drew my interest to this workshop. It was great that a dozen or so children came a long and could give us teacher (or in this case students) some what of a crash course in how to put together a basic show. I was amazed to find that they do it all using an Adobe programme (Adobe Visual Communicator).
The childrens enthusiasm for the show was evident particuarly in the fact that every Monday, Wednesday and Friday they get to school at 7.30am in order to set up ready in time to go live at 9am.
What Marina View School have now is as the result of 10 years of hard work.
So where do we start with this cool new tool?
-Could it be used to screen book reviews?
-Could the class put together their highlights of the week and screen it in a show to share with family?
-Could it be used as a publishing tool for students to show their work at the end of a topic?
-It would be a great tool to teach the technique of interviewing and asking the right questions, leading into writing newspaper reports.
The teacher challenged us to come and visit the school to look more closely at what they are doing with the TV station and to make our own bulletin back at school which if we sent it to him he would include in Marina View's show. I then discovered that Cambridge East School have also more recently set up a television station, so I would be keen to take a visit out there on one of my BT day's to learn more about how they use the TV station, what it adds and what benefits it has for the kids. As well as taking Marina View up on the challenge of sending in a bulletin from Vardon School.
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