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Colin Powers reflects on PBS programming for the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, & Quebec, public broadcasting, and the future of media distribution.

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Entries Tagged as 'Educational Programming'

Teaching with Comic Life

September 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Digital Television, Education, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, Fun Stuff, Illustration - Animation, Multi-media, Public Media, Resources

As I’ve learned from my 7-year old, graphic novels are tremendously appealing to young minds. Here’s a novel way to engage kids in the classroom by creating their own illustrated stories using digital tools. A few years ago I put together a really rudimentary teaching guide to using Comic Life in the classroom. It was [...]

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Lance Weiler is bringing a transmedia education project to Montreal

September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Filmmaking, Fun Stuff, Future of public media, Multi-media

Forty children and two teachers on different sides of the continent will work together this fall to produce stories and artwork about a robot. These artifacts will board a commercial rocket and, through an actual space launch, make their way to the International Space Station. The “dean” of transmedia is taking transmedia storytelling in some [...]

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KCET-TV in $50-million deal for new local shows

August 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Future of public media, Journalism, Local stories, News, PBS, Public Media

Much of the PBS system is watching KCET closely to see how it fares without the PBS “icon” series shows to keep an audience. While cutting deals like this one makes headlines, taking a look at the daily program schedule leaves me really underwhelmed with the offerings. Five hours of cooking shows each weekday? Still, [...]

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Our Animated Documentary – Prime Time in Los Angeles 1/4/11!

December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Illustration - Animation, PBS

Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America Tue Jan 4 9:00PM Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America This animated documentary shares the story of the brave explorer and visionary, Samuel de Champlain. via kcet.org A great by-product of KCET dropping their PBS membership – independent documentaries will get [...]

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PBS Revolution Discussion Continued…

May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Documentary, Educational Programming, Future of public media, Local stories, Mountain Lake Journal, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs, Uncategorized

Below is a thread that began several weeks ago (as reported here and here) on Revolution PBS, an anonymous blog. I’m picking up the thread mid-stream. If you haven’t seen the beginning, you can start with my post linked above and then the “Spoonful of Sugar” post picked up here. I’ve added my comments from [...]

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Sister station with a mission! WSKG has the best mission/vision/values that a station could ask for!

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Future of public media, PBS

Thanks @AmyWoo and the Twitter Chat group #pubmedia for the tipoff to go read this statement. About Mission Guided by your aspirations, WSKG serves to inspire with the highest quality educational programming, explore the arts, culture and heritage of the region and beyond, engage in thoughtful consideration of news and issues of importance, and entertain [...]

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Naturalist Mark Fraser with some summertime snake fun!

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Local stories, Mountain Lake Journal, Multi-media

Check out the latest video below from Mountain Lake Journal EXTRA’s frequent contributor – Adirondack naturalist Mark Fraser. He’s also got a new blog. Be sure to go visit his site and bookmark or better yet, subscribe to his blog feed (see my post from earlier tonight.) You can also subscribe to his video channel [...]

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Notes on Milk | POV | PBS Video

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, PBS

via video.mountainlake.org For anyone who missed the broadcast premiere of Food, Inc. last night on Mountain Lake PBS… here’s a less known short film from POV that aired immediately afterward. A lyrical 20 minute piece with a little known story that affects us all.

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Response to PBS Revolution

April 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Educational Programming, Future of public media, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs

Here is my response to the provocative site PBS revolution and the thoughtful post by John Proffitt posted yesterday. Colin Powers said… Like John, I’m interested to see how the dialogue develops on some of your provocative ideas. Anyone involved in the PBS system who doesn’t feel the pain of investing heavily in distribution technology [...]

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Revolution PBS: Efficiency Idea 1

April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Educational Programming, Future of public media, PBS

This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing depending on your point of view… Efficiency Idea 1 In our quest to identify ways that PBS can cut costs, we will [...]

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