My Student News Journey

12

Oct

Student News Episode 5

We just finished broadcasting episode 5 of student news! Yahoo!  There were some rough spots, but they lead to some great conversations about how we can improve for our next…

08

Oct

STAR Team T-shirt’s Ordered!

STAR Team, aka the tech team that handles the news, just got our swag ordered today. These kids gonna represent! XXL included in the order for yours truly too. 😂

05

Oct

AIS Student News Season 1, Episode 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neyiXddmIPE&list=PLTsChGm364M-nIGX9g-YQ_W6c-uDj2FD2&index=1 We're getting better at this.  Tension is noticeably lower in the studio when we broadcast when we started following a regular pattern: Mondays: writing and recording storiesTuesdays: writing and…

28

Sep

AIS Student News: Season 1, Episode 3

Today our school had an assembly for all of secondary about the Rhino Wilderness Foundation that tries to raise awareness about the poaching of wild rhinos in South Africa.  It…

21

Sep

AIS Student News: Season 1, Episode 2

It's a wrap!  Episode 2 was a lot smoother and turned out pretty well!  Man!  We were all pumped up after such a smooth episode, seeing all the classes watch…

18

Sep

Second story for the day!

While I had one of the kids up in the studio, we were able to make the plan to film the assembly later in the day today for the next…

18

Sep

Filming for Episode 2

Like I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, we learned the lesson that we needed to show a lot of faces from our kids, but simultaneously limit the people…

06

Sep

Delivery day!

Yahoo! Today we got our new Sony pro camcorder.  This is an essential for anyone who is setting up a live streaming studio like we've done. Top reasons why we…

31

Aug

AIS Student News: Season 1, Episode 1

Today our crew started using our studio to film the fist episode (for this "season") of the student news.  We had a complex structure for the episode with multiple camera…