Our school has a YouTube Channel for our daily EPTV news broadcasts. As a Pre-K to 3rd grade building we broadcast the news most important to our school community. Our segments consist of the date and day of our rotation, the Pledge of Allegiance, the lunch menu, daily announcements, weather and sports. Our 3rd graders hold the job of delivering the news until the very end of the school year when the 2nd graders are given the opportunity to see what happens and participate in a broadcast or two. Every 3rd grade student is given the opportunity to participate in each of the roles-announcer 1, announcer 2, Pledge leader, weather person, sports reporter, and camera person.
Every once in a while we have a special broadcast where teachers take the role of the student announcers. The students LOVE seeing their teacher on EPTV! The broadcast I shared is one of those special times. And from the EPTV news team...make this a great day!
I love this! My son's elementary school does the same thing. They are K-5, so the 5th graders take on those same rolls. My son was the pledge leader this past year, and he was very proud of his job. Having the teachers take the role of the students is a great idea!
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DeleteHaley, I love that your son's school also has a morning broadcast. Every 3rd grader in our school has the opportunity to participate in every job at least twice during their rotations. I save a few weeks at the end of the year for grooming my 2nd graders. When I started the daily news our school was a K to 6th. I wasn't sure how it would work with our 3rd graders but I am very proud of how they've risen to the challenge!
DeleteThis is so awesome! I would love to know more about how this works for your school. My new administrator started doing morning announcements, but 90% of the time it's just the pledge. This would be a great way to get the students involved. I'm sure there are standards somewhere that it hits. Ha! Thank you for sharing this!
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ReplyDeleteThanks! I have a YouTube channel for our daily news. We have a digital camcorder connected to a PC with 2 monitors. I write the copy on a Google Doc. to display for the student reporters to read "our roll-ups." We broadcast live every morning around 9AM. The classroom teachers and many of our parents follow our channel so they get an email link when we are broadcasting live. The teachers show their classes our live show on their Promethean boards. Our school LOVES our less than 10 minute broadcast. It is a way to build community. Our principal joines us to highlight students/accomplishments periodically. We have a teacher who spearheads our Olweus bullying program. She does a weekly segment(Manners Matter Monday) to review manners and share what skills our building is working on for the week. I practice once or twice with the team before broadcasting live. It is one of the highlights of my day!
This is great! Video is my speciality and the morning broadcast was the highlight of my high school advanced video production class. I applaud your school for introducing TV production in the elementary grades. I plan to do a post about producing a telecast with various affordable equipment soon. One piece of equipment that may be very useful and help raise the production value is a small teleprompter. There are affordable options that allow you to use your webcam, ipad to produce professional results. Great video and I'm glad to see school introducing the morning broadcast to their daily activities.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ralph! Our second monitor is used as our teleprompter. We also have a mixer of sorts for sound/microphones. It really is only simple equipment that makes a big impact!
ReplyDeleteI loved the video! We have something similar at our school but it is only once a week and completely student run. It would be interesting to add in the teachers from time to time as well. Are the students engaged in it? One of the issues we struggle with is engagement since many of our middle school students seem to not care about upcoming events or the menu when they have it already in their planner. I was just curious if the age group changed how engaged the students were if this is a daily video.
ReplyDeleteI would say for the most part the students are engaged. Having adults on really helps with their attention and we occasionally use props. I also think it helps that we rotate our team jobs so the students can look forward to seeing a friend or someone who rides their bus, etc.
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