Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Now Hear This... GPB Education!!
Georgia Public broadcasting was once a powerful resource in Atlanta public schools. Unfortunately this is not the case anymore. In the past three years we have discontinued our closed-circuit television. In 2010 our schools closed circuit news broadcast WMMB was in full operation. Students were able to show their speaking and reading skills by presenting the morning news. The media center still shows the remnants of a fully functional news desk. Each school also had a subscription to cable television with limited channels (of course). Because many links to videos based on instructional content are available free of charge Atlanta public schools decided to discontinue their partnership with Georgia Public broadcasting. Instead opted to elect external broadcast resources. Cable channel 22 is now Atlanta official education station. During school hours programs are targeted for students in grades K-12. They contain curriculum-based programming. The Georgia Public broadcasting website is chock-full of educational resources. Lesson plans go all the way to grade four. They can be downloaded because they are in PDF format which is awesome; they include Georgia performance standards and follow through with a full lesson cycle. An assessment is even provided. Interactive games correlate with some of the posted lessons and standards taught. The site has even taken the time to provide rubrics for each grade level from kindergarten through four. They are titled "sample" rubrics but they may very well be used in the classroom setting to assess students mastery of a content area. Georgia read more is provided by the Georgia Department of Education. This is a great tool to use in a busy media center. It shows adults reading selected titled to children. It's also an effective resource for Spanish-speaking students because they may either have the book read in Spanish or have English subtitles. I hate to admit that we have not use Georgia Public broadcasting as a resource. Yes I'll such a wealth of information including the Georgia studies book available for purchase online Amazon. Under the educational resources tab there are ways stay informed by contributing to blogs like the GPB family blog. I constantly use Discovery Education because of its breadth. Before I even post this blog, GPB Education is being added to my favorites bar as one of my top educational resources.
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I cannot believe how much your blog mirrors what I use and the “shame” in me when I have to admit that I, nor the teachers at my school, rarely, if ever, use the Georgia Public Broadcasting as a resource. I have used Georgia Read More with my kindergartners and first graders in the past, but now that we have a subscription to Tumblebooks, I rarely go to the Georgia Read more site. Still, there are many different resources available here. And like you, I work in Atlanta Public Schools and I remember the close circuit television that was once available. We still do our school news via close circuit TV, but the box we utilize to broadcast is on its last leg and no will replace it once it is gone. Like you, I will add the Georgia Public Broadcasting to my favorites with the hope that I will remember that such a good resource is available.
ReplyDeleteI'm familiar with how useful the Georgia Public Broadcasting system is. I have used it myself as well as every now and then there will be an email from an administrator on upcoming broadcasts that staff may find useful. As for the closed circuit television, we have not. Even though it's been around forever, we still have yet to have it, which makes the morning news broadcast all the more challenging. Oh well, yes, I will continue to use the Georgia PBS for other great ideas.
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting read! I'm not exactly sure how to utilize this resource in high school but you have certainly peeked my interest to find ways in which this can be utilized in our school. We have just begun news broadcasting which required us to remove the microphones from the mid 90's but I'm sure the Georgia Public Broadcasting can be used as part of the morning show.
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