Broadcasting

The school I teach at does have a broadcasting system that we use for several different things. Every morning, the announcements are broadcast for the entire school and Channel 1 is shown immediately after that. The majority of the televisions in the classrooms are considered Channel 1 televisions...they were provided by Channel 1 as long as we show it each day. Our announcements are very simple with usually two-three anchors and one camera. I think our broadcast has a lot of potential, but doesn't have the opportunity to reach it because it is not associated with a class. These are simply volunteers and the media specialist oversees the broadcast each morning. There are several teachers who utilize Georgia Public Broadcasting, also. There is an opportunity to have shows recorded and broadcast at given times, or the most popular use for teachers is to access Discovery/United Streaming on the Internet. I actually used it today to show a video of Donna Washington as she told African Trickster Tales. The students really seemed to enjoy the mixture of storytelling with humor and graphic elements instead of simply reading the tales from the book.