My school does have a closed circuit system but it is not used at all. Each classroom does have cable connections but not all rooms have TV’ or VCR’s. The media specialist at my school says she’s way too busy to run the closed circuit system. I am told it has the capabilities to run videos for teachers from the media center. Our media center still mainly has VHS tapes for teachers to check out. The media specialist says we are moving toward DVD’s but there are very few of them available for check out. The DVD’s are located behind the check out counter and teacher and staff are the only ones allowed to check them out.
We do use United Streaming a lot in my school. It is a very useful site because it is so easy to locate grade level appropriate material related to the exact standard being studied. Some teachers have also started downloading appropriate clips of videos as part of power point presentations as to not waste time by having students view entire videos when it is not relevant to the lesson.
I have begun to inquire about starting a school news program at my school. We have a technology committee that could work together to get this done instead of waiting for our media specialist to do it. My principal is on board with making our school and students more technology driven so I’m sure she will assist us with anything we need to get started within her means. I am excited about getting this started so if anyone out there has any good pointers for a newbie like me…please share. Thanks.
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I enjoyed reading your post --it helps me to see how important the role of the media specialist is when it comes to taking advantage of new technologies. It sounds like you have the leadership and groups in place to make it happen. I went to the GaETC tech conference this week and one of the facilitators told us about Channel One, a resource for schools. Have you heard about it? I had not heard about this until this month with our blogging and the tech conference.
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