Know what one of the great things about DEN having regional managers in every area of the country? You find out about some amazing things that teachers and students are doing that somehow manage to slip under the radar.
Via the Pennsylvania DEN blog:
The kids at Salisbury Middle School are on the air. They aren’t podcasting, they aren’t videocasting, they’re broadcasting. Every day, they create an SMS Live newscast, a daily closed circuit show produced by the students and faculty there.
There are four on-air anchors, a computer operator, a video mixer operator, two camera operators, a sound operator, a teleprompter operator, a producer that runs the whole show, and a studio manager. On any given day, there are close to 15 students that are needed to bring SMS LIVE to each homeroom, offices and hallway monitors … The show includes announcements, school news, sports and weather, and a highlight of student activities outside the school, such as the recent Interact Club’s Dream Come True fund-raiser. Sports highlights of basketball games are also in the offing.
I watched a couple of them and they really are quite professionally done. Most impressive. I’d be really curious to see a write up of how the entire thing came about, what equipment they’re using and how other schools could follow in suit. Looks like these students are getting some amazing broadcast experience in a very authentic way.
They were very well done. Unfortunatly, I had to download the RealPlayer virus to look at them. 
Our district has been doing that for 3 years now. Our campus has a 4th grade group of kids doing our school-wide morning news. Across the street, they have 3rd graders doing live news, too.
We can roll our news cart to any room on campus and broadcast live from anywhere. It’s very cool!
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