Broadcasting Careers Part 1

March 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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Are you interested in a Radio or Television career? Learn from former graduates how Isothermal’s Broadcasting & Production Technology curriculum prepares you for a job in the radio, television, or production industry.

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Minneapolis Schools Team Up With Local Radio

March 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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Fun Partnerships with KBEM

Minneapolis Schools have a unique relationship with local radio. As radio is the voice of the people and the Minneapolis schools educate those same people, it seems a natural match. Local radio station KBEM has had a long relationship with Minneapolis schools and been an active partner in community events to help students, teachers, and parents stay in touch and stay active in the Minneapolis school system.

One of the most popular ways that this partnership is shown is in the National Night Out celebrations held this past summer. KBEM was instrumental in gathering the community together for a festival of music, freedom, and getting to know each other. The event has been a huge success in recent years and this year was no exception. Minneapolis school students, parents, and teachers, gathered at this interesting community event to be entertained as well as informed about how to stay active in the community.

The evening kicks off with a performance by the Bruce Henry Band followed by a block party on Plymouth Avenue between Russell and Sheridan. The band was won during a KBEM contest to design the most creative invitations to the National Night Out. The winning entry was submitted by a north Minneapolis coalition who created a handmade miniature “Peace Shrine Storybook” to express their neighborhood challenges and story. The storybook invitation was created through a collaboration of the Asian American Community Center, Plymouth Avenue Art Studio, and the AIM (All in the Mix) neighborhood group.

Connections Throughout the Year

In addition to the fun times like the National Night Out, Minneapolis schools partner with local radio stations throughout the year to bring school information to the community. Since 1970, KBEM and Jazz 88 have provided the driving directions to Minneapolis schools as well as broadcast important information about school closings and special events. These services have proved valuable to the community as well as the students and teachers of Minneapolis schools.

On a more creative side, KBEM and Jazz 88 have worked together to implement a jazz curriculum in Minneapolis schools to create an active interest in jazz music and radio broadcasting. KBEM is also the voice of Minneapolis Public Schools and is the only FM broadcast service in the United States that combines a high school broadcast communications program with a jazz history curriculum and a 24-hour mainstream jazz format. The KBEM program is headquartered at North High School and directly impacts approximately 150 students each year by involving them in classroom, mentorship and partnership programs.

This program is unique to nation and provides Minneapolis school students with a special place in the community as well as teaching the skills and training that these Minneapolis school students need to develop into strong professionals. Through the KBEM program, students connect to history, to their communities, and develop a sense of pride in what the Minneapolis school system has to offer. The partnership with KBEM has proven itself to be a worthwhile venture and creative opportunity to unite the Minneapolis schools with the community and beyond.



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Enhance Your Profile With GED Or High School Diploma

March 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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Current lifestyles and the pressure of competition makes college degree or high school diploma seem like an essential step for everyone. Yet choosing to go to college can sometimes be a nightmare. College education exposes students to new ideas, people, experiences and opportunities that will help find a place in society. By pursuing a diploma or a college degree you can understand the job market well.

Until recently most employer’s required little more than a high school diploma for numerous jobs. Now, due to major economic shifts, especially in the manufacturing and retail sectors, the required entry-level job potential for people without college degree seems to dwindling. Students who are facing financial problems are not able to continue with their education and some think of various alternatives.

Are you thinking about an alternative to a high school diploma? Then the best option would be considering a GED (General Education Development). A GED diploma is equivalent to a diploma and it ensures the same competent level as diploma holders. A GED diploma being equivalent to diploma gives you an opportunity to continue education and also opens doors for various employment opportunities. Having a diploma equivalent to high school diploma can open up a broad base and help you get admission to a technical school. These days, many employers are ready to recruit employees with a diploma or equivalent qualifications. Having an equivalent diploma qualification can also earn you a promotion or a raise in your current working position.

According to the Center for Adult Learning 96 percent of colleges provide admission to GED diploma holders for further education. GED diploma holders are also considered eligible for the student financial aid. GED diploma nowadays helps improve your employment prospects or even helps you switch careers for better paying jobs. The GED Test is broken up into five major parts like reading, writing, social studies, math, science and essay. These subjectwise exams take about seven to eight hours. Most adult schools offer GED tests twice a year. Average testing center charges are around $40 to $75 to take the entire test through some centers.

Preparation: Most people gain knowledge through life experience, but for a GED exam you need prepare well regardless of your ability. GED preparation material is available in all the bookstores, as well as public libraries and some publishers also offer variety of GED preparation material. Some public television stations offer GED home study programs, you can call up your nearest local television center and find out about the broadcast series.

Several GED web sites offer sample question papers to help students prepare for the tests and to decide on how much preparation time will be needed to finally attempt the GED tests. If you need assistance in your preparation then you can seek help from the adult schools, community colleges, or occupational centers at your local district level. Staff members of such organizations are ever ready to help you decide whether you need to study for all the tests or if you need to brush up on some topics in specific areas.



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New Phase Of Learning: Online Degree Courses

March 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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Technology has changed the face of distance learning. From the mailbox to the internet, distance learning has gone through transformations that have made it what it is today. The print aspect of distance learning is still ever present because of the need to ensure that the student can read and write.

If you are a poor reader, you probably won’t make a good distance learning student. Correspondence via the internet requires a good deal of reading and can pose a problem for the student who can’t read. You need to be able to write too in order to pass any distance learning course.

If you want to avoid fraud in your search for an online distance degree institution, it’s not enough if it has an email address. You should ensure that any online college that you have applied to has a physical address and a phone number that works. Bear in mind that a post office address is not an indication that an online college is genuine.

Distance education is also largely referred to as distance learning. It is a field of education focusing on teaching and leaning, using technology, and instructional systems. For the most part it focuses on adults, but more and more the younger generation is being involved in the design that aims to deliver education to students who are not physically “on site” at the college grounds.

All over the world, notwithstanding the fact that it is considered obsolete in some several circles, many institutions still use radio broadcasts in distance learning. In India for instance, the FM Channel is still very popular and used by universities to broadcast educational programs. One cannot argue against its effectiveness in this wise because India remains one of the world’s leaders in technology advancements.

A common practice is to have students meet at a variety of designated places for their tests and exams, as in school. The difference with distance learning is that the person who invigilates may not be a lecturer at, just a paid, trusted representative of the school or professor. This way at least, you can be sure that not everyone is cheating.

Distance learning is devoid of the classroom setting. You can partake of a distance learning program in your home or during your lunch break. Distance learning is not determined by your position on the global map.

Don’t be taken in by flashy online distance learning adverts that promise to give you the impossible. Distance learning online can be completed in a maximum of two years if you are serious. Any distance learning offer that promises a degree in less than a year should be ignored.



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School radio studio tour.wmv

March 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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School and college radio is increasingly popular and there are many schools building studios but thinking of content later. For now though, we take a look around one school radio studio in the UK that hosts regular short term RSL broadcasts on FM, with Mike Kinnaird…

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video television production broadcasting disc jockey careers jobs

March 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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Get on the inside track to a career in TV video production or radio production at the Ohio and Illinois Centers for Broadcasting. Our five broadcasting school campuses in Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus and Denver are where disco jockey and television careers start. Whether you want a career in television or radio, a career behind the scenes or in front of the mic, the OICB has the college courses and hands-on training, and internship opportunities that will help get you where you …

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Broadcasting Careers Part 2

March 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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Are you interested in a Radio or Television career? Learn from former graduates how Isothermal’s Broadcasting & Production Technology curriculum prepares you for a job in the radio, television, or production industry.

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Get a Mentor and Learn More in Recording School

February 24, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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en proven that the best way to learn is by actually doing. You could learn how to be a sportscaster or a DJ with on-the-job training if you get a mentor who is already in the radio profession. This allows you to learn the skills necessary in a real radio station, and also experience time on air.

The radio broadcasting industry has schools that train you to become a radio broadcaster, program director, voice-over artist, or promotions director. Assignments include in-studio lab training in an on-air radio station with equipment that is state-of-the-art. The radio program is taught one-on-one, in private sessions, in real radio stations with real radio professionals that takes each student through the course curriculum. No experience is necessary.

With the music business moving more and more online, it is vital to any up and coming musician to learn as much about the music recording side of the business as they can. Music recording schools were designed to impart all this knowledge and experience on an accelerated but flexible schedule so that even hard working musicians can learn more information. For example, they will learn how it is the music producer who guides and shapes the sound, while an audio engineer captures it.

Courses typically include a written curriculums and training guides. Some of the classes include: Voice and Speech Development, Commercial Announcing and Copywriting, Voiceovers, Sports Broadcasting, Writing News Broadcasting, Disc Jockey or Talk Show Host, and Weather Reporting.

Howard Parker is now making millions as a voice-over artist. Bell started out working at Taco Bell, but it was a recording school with a mentor program where he got started.

“The mentor program worked. It put me with real radio pros, and so I stuck to them like glue and learned as much as I could,” said Bell.

What’s more, the tuition can even be funded by student loan program like Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading lender of student loans. The costs for mentor recording schools run from $2,875 for one smaller school in Ohio, to $7,450, which is the best value and available in all 50 of the United States. Colleges or university music recording schools cost from $20,000 to $140,000. Students agree, they learn more when they get a mentor and in one-on-one situations, not in a crowded classroom. Most good mentor program carriculums take about seven months to complete.



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Charlotte Mecklenburg School District’s CMS-TV3

February 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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The Charlotte Mecklenburg School District

The Charlotte Mecklenburg School District is the main school district for the city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The Charlotte Mecklenburg School District is composed of one hundred fifty schools: ninety one elementary schools, thirty two middle schools, seventeen high schools and ten alternative programs. There are one hundred twenty six thousand nine hundred three students enrolled in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District. The District has the top 10% students in the state of North Carolina and in the nation. The ethnic distribution of the school district is nearly 45% African-American.

Charlotte Mecklenburg School District’s CMS-TV3

In order to better serve the students and parents of the Charlotte Schools the school district has created its own television channel. CMS-TV3 is designed to support the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District by broadcasting professional looking programming that can inform, educate, and entertain the parents, students and teachers of the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District. CMS-TV3 meets this goal by providing a variety of programming.

Current programs that address the needs of the students are the telecasts of the Board of Education meetings, Math Extra and Diversity Matters. The Board of Education Meetings are live broadcasts of the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District’s twice monthly meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. This allows parents and teachers to know what is going on in the District. The meetings are rebroadcast on Wednesday nights. Math Extra is a live call in mathematics help show that allows students to get math help from math teachers throughout the school district. The show airs Monday through Thursday in the evening. The show aims to provide homework help to the middle school math students in the school district. Diversity Matters is a character education program aimed at high school students and their parents. This show examines different topics related to the issues about diversity within the Charlotte Mecklenburg School community. These are only a few of the many regular and special programs that aim to educate and connect all the members of the school district.

New Programs on CMS-TV3 for the Next School Year

There are a host of new programs that are being added to the line-up of programs already on CMS-TV3. The first special event to air on CMS-TV3 is the graduation ceremonies for the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District’s 6,500 graduating seniors for 2006. Then starting with the new school year, there are a number of new programs. These programs, like those currently running, aim to help and enlighten the Charlotte Mecklenburg community. Financial Fitness is a new program aimed at teaching students the value of money and how to practice financial responsibility. This is an important show that illustrates the perils of credit and interest. Hands On Crafts For Kids is a new program that is created to teach elementary school students how to make easy and fun projects. It also gives advice on room decorations and party planning. Stuff is a cross-subject program that involves the use of sciences, arts, and athletics to teach about health and character. The program uses a variety of subjects in order to better relate to the students’ personal interests. Stuff is geared toward middle school students.

Working in Broadcasting

CMS-TV3 gives high school students in Charlotte Mecklenburg School District the chance to intern in television production. The internships give selected students the chance to gain practical experience in radio and television production. Interns have the opportunity to apply for several positions like studio floor directors, camera operators, sound assistants, lighting technicians, phone call screeners, writers, and assistant producers.



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CENTRO Trainees at Winter X Working for ESPN

February 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment
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11 CENTRO Trainees were hired by ESPN to work for them during winter X Games in Aspen Colorado. In this video CENTRO’s Chris Fegley talks about his experience working for ESPN.

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