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School News Program Now Online

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The news is now available for parents and family members around the world.  Yes, our weekly news program covering the happenings at Madison School is now online.  The web site is linked above and now has all the stories written for last week's show and the pod cast itself.   Check it out!

The web site has opened up a whole new department in the production 'company.'  We have now two web editors that take the stories for the week and format them for the web.  This includes reinstating any 'copy' that was deleted for the show, and editing the grammar for writing instead of for pronunciation, as it is for the teleprompter.  The video then must be edited to take out scenes of random students to protect the privacy of Madison students.  Also, the credits are switched to delete the last names.

Each week on Thursday, the past week's show will be put up online.  The former shows will be moved to the archives page.  The kids are excited about the extra opportunity to see the show.  However, the production of the live! show on Friday mornings still remains the great motivation for a lot of researching, writing, editing, organizing, rehearsing, and performing!

The Madison Elementary School news show covers the happenings of the school community. The show airs live each Friday morning, immediately following the morning pledge. The program is rebroadcast later in the morning for those classes that have scheduling conflicts with the live airing.  The entire broadcast is produced by fifth grade students. (Check the Madison home page events calendar for show times.)

To prepare for each broadcast, the editorial staff eats lunch together on Monday to establish the show for the week. The students film and interview throughout the week, and work after school on Thursdays to finish up, outline the order of the show, and perform a run-through.

All stories and videos are assigned, completed, edited, and produced by the students. All school staff members make themselves available to the students and help us out, all classrooms watch the show on Fridays, and all students are glued to their seats enjoying the show.

 


 

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