Welcome to Wave TV 2013!

I hope everyone at Paremata School had a great holiday! I had a marvellous break. Most of my time was spent in the Nelson area with my parents. I went to the river and the beach a lot, trawled through junk shops for treasures and went for the odd bush walk. If you look closely in the photo you can see where I walked to one day.
I am really looking forward to getting back into Wave TV. The 2012 crew did a fantastic job of identifying news stories, scripting, filming/ presenting and editing. They showed a huge level of motivation and commitment.
I have 2 start-up goals for the 2013 crew and both of them are about communication.

• We need to get better at communicating what we do here at Wave TV with our school community. 
• The second thing to improve is around helping the school communicate with us. Have we really got all the stories? What do we know about what goes on in classrooms and syndicates? How can we get better at finding out? These are the questions I will be asking the crew when we have our first Wave TV meeting on Friday February 15th, in Week 2.

As many of you know, I have won a Ministry of Education study award for 2013 to work on the final year of a Master of Education degree. My area of interest is in effectively incorporating technology/ ICT into teaching and learning to enhance learning. I will spend the year working on a thesis around this topic. Luckily for me, Wave TV is a wonderful example of using ICT effectively and creatively for learning so developing Wave TV into the best student TV we can create is what the thesis will be all about. I'll be in school working with the crew at the Wave TV studio (old dental clinic) all day every Friday. I'll sometimes be in during the week as well.

Wave TV is all about students telling their own school stories. Along the way they are developing skills in visual language, narrative, digital storytelling, reading, creativity, writing, reporting, identifying appropriate ways to present information, critical thinking, problem solving, film-making, working as a team, student led learning, analysis, writing for an audience and much more. It is also great fun!

I am really looking forward to Wave TV 2013!
Caroline Lockyer
Wave TV Teacher