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Your school has just been
awarded a grant from the Panasonic Corporation. It will allow you to
purchase the necessary video equipment to video-tape student-produced morning video
bulletins. This will replace the current system of having Mrs. Beechingham, the
school secretary, read them over the public address system. Students maintain that the only thing her announcements are good for is putting them
to sleep. Teachers say that they use the announcement time for additional planning,
answering e-mails or grading papers.
You know, from your research, that anything
that students can see and hear is more likely to be remembered than anything that
they can only hear. You also know that while "the medium is not the message"
(sorry, Marshall McLuhan), students are more likely to listen and
remember to announcements if they are presented in a professional and entertaining
manner. Finally, the school sees this as an opportunity for students to learn a new form of communication:
the art of video production.