Reimagining Our School's Broadcast

Funded Feb 9, 2023

First off I must say Mahalo and Thank You for the opportunity to enhance our schools live weekly broadcast with your donations. The items that we received, a GoPro, Stream Deck and Headphones gave our student broadcast team tools to not only give a fresh look to what we've been doing each week, but it also gave our students the chance to explore a new technology and master it.

With these products I had the students learn through manuals and videos how to use the each product as well as try them out with our existing equipment to see what works and what doesn't. Then they teach me how to use it as a way to show understanding of the new equipment. The students appreciated the chance to experiment with the equipment. They ended up learning things about them that I didn't even know were possible.

There were four students in particular that really dove deep into learning about the GoPro and Stream Deck. They found out how to connect the GoPro to our laptops and how to live stream through a secure YouTube link. The Stream Deck was a really fun add on that allowed us to add graphics and audio clips to our live broadcast in real time. There are 15 "shortcut" buttons where you can add graphics/text to show while the show is going on and also you can add sound effects like clapping to happen when you hit the button. These items are used in radio and live television so the students got to see the real world applications of the equipment.

Thank you again so much. This was my first Donors Choose experience and it was a good one. The students at S.E. Kalama Intermediate, especially the Advanced Media/Broadcast Team, really appreciate you the support.”

With gratitude,

Mr. Guzman-Sierra