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

2013 News Anchors

The news anchors have the job of scripting and presenting the introduction and closing to each episode of Wave TV. They also connect the stories in each episode. Its a responsible job where students need to work in a team with the camera crew, the director and each other to produce episodes.

• Stories are scripted by the Anchors in the Wave TV wiki. 
• The Anchor script is printed out. Anchors & the news crew keep a copy.
• Anchors have a week to practise and perfect the script in their own time and with Wave TV coaches, making any necessary script improvements.
• The script is enlarged and used as a prompt during filming. 
• After filming, the Anchors edit and approve their segments.

First choice for being an anchor in 2013 was given to the year 8s as this will be their final year at Paremata School. 20 year 8s volunteered so we will need to make 10 episodes for everyone to get a turn. If you have changed your mind about anchoring please tell me ASAP. I'll send out permission slips for you and your caregivers to sign on Monday 26th November. Thank you all for volunteering. We couldn't make Wave TV without our wonderful anchors!
Thanks, Caroline.

Episode 1 Samuel  and Finn
Episode 2 Chloe and Nic
Episode 3 Louis and Adam
Episode 4 Amber and Lucia
Episode 5 Lachlan and Dylan
Episode 6 Callum and Harrison
Episode 7 Nyah and Yasmine
Episode 8 Peteru and Cyzck
Episode 9 Toby and Moses
Episode 10 Brenna and Morgan

Back-up news anchor- Melissa

WTV Crew 2013 News Update

Hi Everyone,
Thanks to all the people who came along as Wave TV Crew applicants for 2013. There were 52 of you so it was really hard selecting the crew of 15 - 20 students. I looked for Wave TV Crew using the following criteria. We need year 6 & 7 people who are:

• Creative- can see things from several points of view
• Able to work well in a team with any other students
• Able to manage themselves independently 
• Problem solvers/ flexible thinkers
• Able to manage their own school work as well as Wave TV
• Happy to work on stories in their own time
• Able to meet every Friday morning ready to report on the progress of their stories
• Willing and able to learn new and challenging skills
• Motivated, reliable and enthusiastic
• Able to use a sense of humour- things don't always go the way we expect when making school TV!

After some discussion with Mrs Leggett, Miss Milne, Mrs Bassett and Mr Pesefea I've narrowed down a shortlist of people who we think can do most of these things. On Monday 26th I'll be sending home permission slips for crew and caregivers to sign. Remember- even if you are not Wave TV Crew you can come to me or the crew with a story and we will support you to put it in an episode of Wave TV.

Caroline

Wave TV 2013

Hi Paremata School students,

We are getting ready for Wave TV 2013 by sorting out our 2013 core crew and news anchors. I would like the 2013 year 8 students to have first option of being news anchors. I know it's a busy year for year 8s with leadership responsibilities around the school so this is a great way of being part of Wave TV without having to commit to a whole year. If you were a news anchor in 2012 you're welcome to apply to do it again in 2013- you did such a great job!

I'm interested in developing the core Wave TV crew from year 6 & 7 students (with the blessing and support of Bryce, Sally, Mrs Leggett and the year 5-8 teachers). Below is the advertisement and job description for 2013 that is in W.O.T.. Your main job will be to develop news making skills you can use to produce episodes of Wave TV. You will work with the news anchors and anyone else who wants to present a news story for Wave TV. You will be the experts who ensure Wave TV is of a high standard and that we put out regular episodes. Two episodes a term would be great! I'm looking forward to meeting enthusiastic, motivated, interested people on Friday!

If you're not selected as core crew or you're not a year 6 or 7 in 2013 you can still create news stories for Wave TV. All you have to do is let me know you have a story idea and the Wave TV crew will work with you to write, film and edit it. If you are happy presenting to the camera you can. The WTV crew's job will be to support you so your story happens.

I'm looking forward to a fantastic Wave TV year!
Caroline

Would you like to be part of Wave TV 2013? If you will be in year 6 or year 7 in 2013 and are interested in being a core crew member of Wave TV please come to the old Dental Clinic/ Wave TV Studio next Friday at 9am. Crew members need to be committed, enthusiastic and happy to learn about all aspects of video making. These include finding and developing stories, camerawork, teamwork, self-managing, presenting to camera, journalism, patient enough to do video editing, and prepared to commit to weekly Wave TV meetings as well as being happy to work on stories in your own time. Wave TV is a fun and rewarding activity for students who can think outside the box and want to explore creative ways to tell Paremata School's stories. I'll choose 15-20 enthusiastic year 6 & 7 students as our core crew. Caroline

Year 7 & 8s- we will need you as news anchors in 2013. You get first option on this opportunity to script and present our news. The anchors are who hold our stories together. So if you have a flair for the dramatic and love being in front of the camera please come and see me after morning tea on Friday. Caroline.

Wave TV Wiki

Here's a link to our Wave TV wiki. This is where we'll plan and write our Wave TV stories. We'll use the blog to showcase any work we do, and the wiki to plan it.
http://wavetv.wikispaces.com/

Practise interview Task 7

Camera person: Nic
Interviewer: Yasmine
Interviewee: Georgia

Script:
Hi I'm Yasmine and I'm here with Georgia and she has done the wave TV online course.
Georgia can you tell me a bit about the course.
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Did you like the course?
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Why?
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What have you learned from the course?
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Thanks Georgia for your time.

Task 7 Kai,Chenthi and Melissa

    Interviewer    Interviewee   Camera

      Chenthi            Kai           Melissa

        Kai             Melissa        Chenthi

      Melissa         Chenthi           Kai 

              Interview Questions

       -What is your full name?

       -How old are you?

       -What are the names of your family members?

       -When were you born?

       -What is your favourite colour?

       -What are your hobbies?

       -If you were on a desert island and you could only have 3 items what would they be?

       -What is your favourite type of chocolate?