![]() Jeffers said his company runs information from Fort Cherry, Burgettstown Area and Canon-McMillan. Saunders has been seeking grants for a new Mac lab, as the iMacs are more than a decade old.Īvella isn’t the only district providing cable content to Hickory Telephone. Gofundme pages and grants have helped, along with football advertising. The high school entered TV programming in the fall of 2015, thanks to a $1,000 donation initiated by Rick Walsh, the owner of Walsh Media.įunding is a necessary element for the Media Production program, to pay for equipment. It’s a good platform for students.”Īvella has had a video program for 11 years, which started under Saunders, who is otherwise a business and computer technology instructor. “Anything the school is willing to produce, we’re willing to run. “We have an open platform,” Jeffers said. “We hope to add podcasting and community-related stories.” “We hope to have students announcing this fall, the teacher said. In one broadcast, producers came to an agreement with radio station WJPA to use its broadcast feed on the telecast. “Before, this was all tape,” Saunders said.Īvella has been broadcasting football and basketball games, using the public address announcer as the play-by-play voice. The number of live productions, however, has increased over time – as well as the quality of work. The kids do look forward to the news bloopers we run.” “If someone makes a mistake or laughs, we can redo it. ![]() “It’s a nice thing that we tape,” Jeffers said. Avella students tape the news a day in advance, so this was a seamless do-over. One girl slipped over a word pronunciation, but no harm-no foul to the English language or her budding career. They began the newscast with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by announcements of school signups, sports results, upcoming games and other newsy bits. The more-seasoned news team works in a tight, but well-appointed computer room inside the junior/senior high school library, fine-tuning skills, cobbling together brief newscasts and work as a team called The Eagle Eye News – named, naturally, for the school mascot.ĭuring class Wednesday morning, Ella Lengauer, a senior bound for Allegheny College, and freshman Elonna Coontz served as anchors as Rafe Cooper operated a teleprompter. (About 10 are currently in the introductory course.) This class is made up of mostly of juniors and seniors, who learned the basics previously in Media Production I. ![]() About a dozen teenagers, under the tutelage of instructor Jesse Saunders, are doing so through their Media Production II class. ![]() A growing, changing role as well, as digital storytelling has become an integral part of the curriculum.įor nearly four years, Avella and Hickory Telephone have had a partnership whereby the students provide taped and live content for the cable broadcasts. The focus is on community.”Ī group of Avella Area High school students, and their media production teacher, are playing an integral role in that focus. “We hope to put on as much local content as we can. “We call it ‘Hometown TV,'” Jeffers said. ![]()
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