Nickelodeon’s Super Bowl Coverage Should Be A Goal For Your Classroom
Tom describes how you can leverage Nickelodeon’s Super Bowl broadcast for your classroom. Find out how to teach about target audience, branding, and more.
How To Remove Buzz From Audio Recordings
“Noisy Audio” is always a struggle. Here are steps to remove the audio before and after you hit record!
Just do It: How To Start Student Play By Play
Tom details points of focus if you are starting your program’s play by play and color commentary for your live shows.
BACK TO BASICS: Pacing your broadcast news programs
Tom shares a couple of pacing guides and a rubric to be used in the broadcast news classroom. Detailing the intricacies of managing a well run broadcast program, Tom shares his thoughts and processes that help build a successful program.
Teaching To The Test Pattern EP 124: Ask The Engineer #1
Video production educators have a lot of manage and often the thoughts and understanding of engineering get left behind. In this new series, Tom talks with Faraz Ahmed from Amitrace about several engineering concerns that educators may face in their classroom and in the field.
Newsroom Tools To Bring Your Program to the Industry Standard.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I didn’t know why I wanted to teach so bad. I didn’t know what made me want to learn all I could about the industry and stay ahead of the curve as best I could within the constraints of the classroom… but I learned that day. I sat there with one of my assistant principals and a county level employee and in no uncertain terms told the county IT person that I didn’t care about what made him comfortable (the discussion was my students needing the ability to use their personal google accounts on campus… more on that in a later article.); my only concern was making sure my students were comfortable when they got to the next level of their career. The reason I taught and I do what I do is to better prepare students for the next step in their career and make sure they are comfortable with what they are going to face.
CTE Is Not A second choice
This article comes from a recent experience where I was completely flabbergasted by the words of a county level administrator. I attended a “stepping up” meeting where an entire community of eighth grade students were presented with the high school options they would have to choose from soon as they registered for their classes.