STUDENTS
EXPERIENCE TV, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA
Students find themselves in the midst of exciting changes in television,
communication, and multimedia. Within Tenafly High School's Library
Media Center facility students get hands on experience working with a
wide range of equipment. They take part in daily decisions and become
part of the exciting dynamic found in live television broadcasting.
Knowledge and experience gained here will be beneficial no matter what
career choice these students make. Many students find their niche at
THS-TV in front and behind the camera.
We encourage our students to be the inventive and
visionary persons of the 21st century
Involved students experience the excitement of live broadcasts and
tapings of our school's events to include theatrical performances,
sports, classes, video conferences, special events and promotional
videotapes using professional broadcast equipment. And students learn
about the technical and historical aspects of television, a broadcast
medium that rose out of the minds of inventive and visionary persons
early in the 20 century. This is the only area of the school where
students, under supervision, get hands on experience with the latest in
streaming video technology, digital video editing, computer networking,
graphics for television, imaging, and can experiment with television and
computer technology. We encourage our students to be the inventive and
visionary persons of the 21st century.
The best broadcasts must have respect and
good will as their central purpose
Students will experience what it is like to work behind and in front of
the camera in television. With broadcast equipment donated from several
television stations along with several grants from the T.E.F. and H.S.A.,
we have built a multi-use live television control room, chock full of
professional broadcast equipment with lots of buttons and gadgets. A
direct fiber optic transmission to Cablevision's head end allows for
broadcast to all Cablevision subscribers in Tenafly. Students become
technically and / or artistically involved and they have the opportunity
to learn about television production, refine their communication skills,
and learn that the best broadcasts must have respect and good will as
their central purpose. Students that belong to this learning community
form their own homeroom producing a “Morning Homeroom Program” that all
other homerooms, Tenafly residents, and visitors to this web page can
"tune in" to to get in tune!
Meetings in the library occur frequently. Members that work on the
production of school events have free access. Active members can receive
special privileges. For more information see Mr. Di Gregorio, Mr. Moger,
or Mr. Garcia in the library.
LATEST NEWS:
HOFTSTRA TRIP ON OCTOBER 15, 2008
Ten THS media students set up
the orange remote broadcasting bus along Hempstead Turnpike adjacent
to Hofstra University’s “Free Speech Area” and across the street
from the entrance from the arena where the third 2008 presidential
debate took place. On the sidewalk, a small studio was set up and
several of the students interviewed demonstrators and individuals
representing a wide range of interests on all sides. The individual
“on camera” interviews culminated in a panel discussion by our
students. Meanwhile, all this was wirelessly remoted back to the
THS library media center’s TV control room via a broadband network
card located inside the broadcast bus, and this in turn was scan
converted and broadcast on Channel 77 “live” in Tenafly and on the
web at
www.librarymedia.net ’s video gallery. At the Library Media
Center, the feed was monitored and cell phone communication allowed
for tweaking.
Our THS students exemplified our
program’s guiding principle:
The best broadcasts must have
respect and good will as their central purpose.
You can see their work for
yourself and share their experience clicking through this streaming
media
mms://151.198.212.3/Hofstra and / or visiting www.librarymedia.net
and click on the video gallery link. The program can be found in
the “THS-TV Productions” section.
