The media center at the middle school where I am mentoring is not responsible for or even connected to any production of a morning show or announcements. To get information on the morning announcement television show I had to go see the technology teacher. He is responsible for producing the program every morning.
The show is aired every morning via a channel on a video distribution system. Children read the announcements and sign up on a voluntary basis. The show is created through Visual Communicator software, and this is apparently an easy program to use and manipulate. In the show the students show photographs, make announcements, say the Pledge of Allegiance, and announce the daily lunch menu. There is not much else done with the announcements over the video distribution system.
There are five other channels in the video distribution system. The single one used for the morning show is located in the technology room. The five others are located in the media center workroom. Four are attached to VCRs while only one has a DVD. The system is not used for anything other than showing movies closed circuit throughout the school.
The classrooms use the Smart Boards and projectors to show multimedia off of the computer. More than GPB, the teachers use united streaming. They usually show these videos only in their single rooms through their projectors. The media center does not do anything with these activities and leave it up to the teacher to choose media to show in their classroom.
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The school where I work is brand new and has a video production but the news/announcements are still done over the intercom! So boring and uneventful. The kids barely listen to the announcements and then they are done in the morning and afternoon. At least your school does 'visual' announcements although it sounds as if they need to be re-charged with something more exciting instead of the same old thing. I am surprised that the kids sign up on a voluntary basis. I think that it there should be a more exclusive or selective way of choosing the participants.
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