Student broadcasts featured in magazine
Students at one Lawrence elementary school get a real look at the TV news business. 6News reporter Lindsey Slater has more. Enlarge video
A new crew enters the Langston Hughes School TV studio each month to make sure the daily announcements get on the air.
The elementary students do everything to make the broadcast happen, from anchoring to camera work to music.
And the children are being recognized as the featured broadcast for an online education magazine, School-Video-News.com.
"There's kids that come in here that may not have a lot of confidence, but they always end up with a sense of accomplishment after this," said sponsor and library assistant Lissa Revenew.
The students learned that being behind the scenes is hard work.
"It's a little more difficult that you'd think it'd be, so you really have to work at it," said Jamie Edwards, a fifth-grade video technician.
But they still have fun.
"Sometimes when you're trying to get something done, a blooper happens," said Jake Hensley, a fifth grade teleprompter operator. "But we're all there and it's fine because we can all trust each other."
LHTV started in 2002 and includes daily announcements, birthdays and a segment called "Today in History." But it doesn't come together unless the kids do.
"I have to make sure everything on the computer has exactly what I need them to say, and if it doesn't, then it wrecks the entire studio," Hensley said.
Revenew said the students always come in the morning ready for action.
"They know their job meshes with everybody else's job to make the broadcast," she said.
The show started as just a closed-circuit program confined to the walls of Langston Hughes, but now all the broadcasts are on the Web. To watch them, log on to SchoolTube.com and search for LHTV.
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commuter (anonymous) says…
Great use of public funds- not. how about equity in the schools?What is next. Wesealman using a golden toilet?