[090] K-12 Teachers' Fall Webcasts Feature Live Audiences

News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
Instructional Technology Support Center contact: Dr. Connie Schmidt, 615-898-5191 or cschmidt@mtsu.edu

K-12 Teachers’ Fall Webcasts Feature Live Audiences


(MURFREESBORO) — This fall’s Satellite and Webcasting Center at MTSU’s series of television programs for kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers has a new side benefit: MTSU students, faculty and staff are invited to attend as part of a live studio audience.
All of the one-hour programs, which air at starting at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, will be presented in McWherter Learning Resources Center Room 101T, which is located on the mezzanine level above the LRC computer lab.
Following two programming overview shows last week, the third and fourth teachers’ programs will air today and Thursday, Sept. 14. Amy Zeller, speech-language pathologist from the Vanderbilt Voice Center, will lead Thursday’s show that is titled “Vocal Care for Teachers: Strategies to Maintain Optimal Vocal Health.”
“Many faculty offer participation in these programs to their students as extra credit or enrichment opportunities,” said Dr. Connie Schmidt, director of the Instructional Technology Support Center. “All of the programs are appropriate for preservice teachers. Some are appropriate for social work and counseling faculty and students.
“We have one program on vocal care that speech students will find particularly interesting. Many of our program topics are of interest to a general audience.”
Audience participants are asked to register in advance with Jenny Marsh by calling 615-898-2737 or e-mail vmoxley@mtsu.edu. Seating is limited to 32 people.
Teachers’ shows will air on the following Thursdays this fall: Sept. 16, 23 and 30; Oct. Oct. 14, 21 and 28; and Nov. 2, Nov. 4, 11 and 18. In addition to today, other Tuesday airings will be Oct. 12 and Nov. 2 and 9.
A list of the teachers’ programs can be found online at http://itsc3.fsa.mtsu.edu/itsc/, then click on “K-12 Webcasting.”
The extremely popular programs for K-12 students resume Tuesday, Sept. 21, with “The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay. Andrea Steele, educator for Teacher and School Programs for the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, will be the presenter.
Other live student program dates include Oct. 12, 14 and 26; Nov. 9, 16 and 18; and Dec. 16. All live shows start at 9 a.m. CT. The Oct. 19 and Nov. 2 programs, which also air at 9 a.m. CT will be prerecorded.
The Oct. 14, Nov. 18 and Dec. 16 shows are Colonial Williamsburg electronic field trips, which are live, interactive programs produced by Colonial Williamsburg.
Cable television for Murfreesboro and Rutherford County (Live on ERC/MTSU Channel 9), Nashville (Metro Nashville IQTV20) and Huntsville, Ala. (ETV Channel 9), air the programs.
The programs can be viewed at a number of satellite sites – elementary, middle and high schools – across Middle Tennessee. Sites also include schools in Church Hill, Greeneville, Madisonville, Crossville, New Johnsonville and Dyersburg.
Contact Schmidt at 615-898-2560 or e-mail cschmidt@mtsu.edu for more information about the programs or to be considered as a new satellite site.

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