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Who Uses the Channel?
Availability of the Channel
Kinds of Programming
Annenberg Channel programming is designed for professional
development and for direct instruction. For professional development,
we offer both video workshops and courses, and video libraries.
Professional
Development Video Workshops and Courses
Workshops and courses bring educational leaders and teachers
together to address professional issues, and to help both
preservice and inservice teachers develop their craft by using
the results of educational research in their own classrooms.
Workshops and courses can also allow participating teachers
to build their professional credentials through graduate credit
and other statewide, regional, and district inservice programs.
Please visit our detailed Taking
a Workshop section for more information.
Professional
Development Video Libraries
Video libraries are designed to allow teachers to see
each other in action, by providing extensive fly-on-the-wall
looks into classrooms around the country. Organized by subject,
method, and grade level, our libraries correlate directly
with national standards. The focus is always on best practices,
but filming real students in real classrooms means that our
video libraries can never preach—they’re too authentic
for that. Instead, they exemplify how great teaching comes
about against all odds in the real world.
Video Instructional
Series
For instruction, Annenberg Media series remain among the
most respected educational programming in public broadcasting
and in the classroom—from favorites like The Western
Tradition and French in Action, to new releases
like A Biography of America and English Composition:
Writing for an Audience. Our goal has always been to use
the video medium not just to redistribute the same old curricula,
but to expand what can be taught by cultivating video’s
inherent capacity to go places no traditional classroom can
go, and to juxtapose national and international experts with
unparalleled and authoritative imagery.
Virtually all Annenberg Channel programming is also available
for purchase on videocassette.
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Who Uses the Channel?
Any non-commercial educational or community agency can
use the Channel. It is designed to serve educators at all
levels, and parents, life-long learners, and the general public
at home seeking excellent educational programming on a wide
variety of subjects. Schools and other educational institutions,
cable access stations and channels, and public broadcasting
stations are the three largest groups among the many agencies
using the Channel and feeding it to their audiences.
Schools
Schools use it as a fundamental source of professional
development programming, for graduate credit or other professional
credentials. They also find its programming useful for direct
instruction and as classroom resources across the curriculum.
For teachers and administrators, teacher-educators and preservice
teachers, it serves as a window into real classrooms around
the country, and into current best practices in almost every
discipline.
Cable Access Stations
Cable access stations, whether licensed for "public,"
"education," or "government" access, use the Channel as a
ready source of free, authoritative programming to mix and
match with their own locally produced programs and round out
programming schedules.
Public Broadcasting
Stations
Public broadcasting stations use the Annenberg Channel
to provide turnkey programming for second or ancillary channels
(including those additional channels constituting one of the
multiple digital streams that digital conversion will allow),
and as a strong way of fulfilling their educational mandate
with some of the nation’s most honored educational programming.
They also use it as a rich source of free programming from
which to select for their own local needs on their principal
channel.
Availability
The Annenberg Channel may be available to you already.
Many local public broadcasting stations and other educational
organizations in all 50 states now receive the Channel and
show its programming in their communities. To learn if the
Channel is already available to you, make inquiries as follows:
(check with these organizations before you take further steps:)
- Check with the ITV department of your local public television
station.
- Ask your local cable company for the number of the agency
operating the local access channels, including "public
access", "education access" and "government access" channels.
- Ask your local school district if they have a digital
satellite downlink.
- Call local colleges and universities to ask if they operate
television or cable channels.
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