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W, Th | 5:00 - 6:00 pm

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What is Student DV?
Student DV (Digital Video) is a unique program that includes participation from 16 school districts, community colleges, a local ABC affiliate, local cable company and the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Commission and inspires students to produce educational videos to share their vision and ideas. SECC produces the program monthly to showcase digital video programs created by Sacramento students, and the program is aired weekly on SECC’s educational cable channels that reach more than 300,000 Sacramento households.

SECC Production Manager Doug Niva says, “The great thing about Student DV is that SECC can showcase local students and their videos to the greater Sacramento community via cable — and the entire world — online. Student DV allows students’ videos to go beyond the walls of their classroom. During the Student DV/SEVA production process we (Niva with Production Assistant Eric Sawyer) go out to each of the school sites and interview the student producers. It’s always fun to hear how they came up with their idea, how they shot it, what they learned in the process of making their video and, most importantly, what they like most about making videos.”

Student DV features student work entered in the annual SEVA (Student Educational Video Awards) contest. Open to Sacramento county K-20 students, the SEVAs provides a variety of categories to express an educational message — PSA, school news/events, documentary and instructional/how-to.

Since many schools have a multimedia program, Student DV provides teachers with useful instructional materials to help students learn more about video production and also see what their peers are creating. Producing a video program involves much more than just taping an event. The knowledge and expertise needed for a successful production requires numerous cross curriculum skills including teamwork, ability to research topics, knowledge of subject areas, ability to communicate ideas, reading, creative writing and organization.

If you have any comments or a student-produced video you’d like to see on Student DV, email studentdv@secctv.org

Student DV wins distance education award
“Students have a voice and many visions to share and through Student DV, we can help get their message out to a broader audience”

SECC is pleased to announce that its Student DV project won an Affinity Group Award — or AFFY — that honors distinguished Distance Education projects in California. The award goes to a project, not person, and must be intersegmental, have objective outcomes, make effective use of technology, be a model for effective student/teacher accommodations and for distance and distributed education.

The Affinity Groups comprise ADEC’s (Alliance for Distance Education in California) membership and include K-12, community college, four-year colleges and universities and lifelong learning and business. ADEC is an association of more than 200 professionals dedicated to the development of distance learning.

Watch Student DV online or on your iPod
Podcasts
In the iTunes "Advanced" menu, select "Subscribe to Podcast" and pastehttp://feeds.feedburner.com/seccbloginto the dialog box.

Blog
Watch the latest videos from StudentDV and the SEVAs on SECC's new blog or subscribe to our podcasts using iTunes.

Student Educational Video Awards (SEVAs)
Students of all ages who are involved in producing video or multimedia are encouraged to Share Their Vision about educational topics and issues in their daily lives. There’s a category for all kinds of expression from serious documentary to playful animations.

Winners and all participants are recognized at the annual SEVA Award Night each spring, and winning videos and producer interviews are shown on SECC's cable channels and online. also airs student videos and interviews on their Good Morning program.

The 2008 SEVAs were sponsored by SECC, Comcast and News 10.

2008 SEVA Award Night Event
The event was held on May 14 at Folsom High School and nearly filled their theater nearly 700 attendees! Everyone had a great time, starting with a red carpet welcome for all students and teachers — complete with student paparazzi and SECC and News10 camera crews.

Watch all 2008 SEVA Award Night videos

SEVA 2008 Winner's Reel
July 3, 10, 16, 24 | 5:00 pm | C. 15

SEVA 2008 Event Highlights
July 30, 31 | 5:00 pm | C. 15

2008 Videos Awarded a SEVA
View clips of all the winning videos in each category

2008 SEVA ENTRY CLIPS
Documentary QT | Win
School News & Events QT | Win
PSA QT | Win
Instructional / How To QT | Win

Why do students love making videos?
Every year, students tell why they love producing videos for the SEVA contest. Take a look at the testimonials:

SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 1
Features Florin High School student Michael Fuentes
QT | Win

SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 2
Features Quinn Watson from Bannon Creek Elementary
QT | Win

SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 3
Features Del Paso Heights' student Ashley Rowe
QT | Win

SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 4
Features three students from Pershing Elementary
QT | Win

VIEW THE 2008 SEVA WINNING VIDEOS

SEVA contest information
The SEVA contest is open to students of all ages and entries fit into a variety of categories. The 2009 entry form and rules will be available in September.

SEVA Grade Levels
Elementary: K-3, Elementary: 4-6; Middle/Junior High: 7-8; High School: 9-12; and College/ University

SEVA Categories
School News and Events
Campus news programs or coverage of an event in your school such as a concert, play, theater production or other activity.

Documentary
An indepth educational study about classroom curriculum topics, issues or people in current events or history.

Public Service Announcement (PSA)
A short promotional piece about an educational topic.

Informational/How to
Provides "how to" advice or teaches a subject or skill related to an educational topic.

For more information, call SECC at 916/920-1006 or email secc@secctv.org

Digital Journalists: DV Starter Kits create opportunity to enhance curriculum and communicate creatively
For many years, SECC has devoted resources and time to help instruct today’s youth on the value of video production. Special funding in 2002 from the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Commission allowed SECC to launch the DV (digital video) Starter Kit Grant Program and create three video kits to loan in six-month increments to interested Sacramento county schools. The program helped train nearly 1000 students.

At the end of last year, a grant from the Gannett Foundation (a corporate foundation that gives grants to organizations in the communities where they own a daily newspaper or television station) enabled Sacramento’s News10 to join the program and, additionally, teach students the tenets and values of journalism they practice daily.

“News10 believes in the future of information sharing and our children’s roles in those efforts,” says Michael Langley, Assistant News Director. “Today, young men and women are communicating on a far faster, far more sophisticated level. News10 is connecting with our community and giving local students both the physical and ethical tools for our new digital age of journalism.”

SECC matched funds with the Gannett Foundation grant and 13 new kits were created. Interested schools submitted their proposals to their SECC Board Representative who selected one school in their district to receive the kit. Some districts decided to purchase additional kits for other sites in their district.

Starter kit recipient teachers met in January at News10 to receive their kits. Representatives from SECC and News10 provided program history, usage guidelines, equipment demonstrations and on-site teacher and student training session information. The equipment is to be used for school-related student video projects only and, each year, the school site must submit at least two videos to SECC’s Student Educational Video Awards contest or SEVAs (learn more). Additionally, each site provides kit usage updates.

On-site visits and support
Each of the 13 schools wanted a training visit, and SECC staff provided them with two hours of information on shooting basics, audio and lighting. Using equipment from the kit, students helped with hands-on demonstrations of lighting, camera and tripod use and asked lots of questions as they worked.

News10 is also dedicating staff expertise to help guarantee the program’s success. Professional digital journalists will offer feedback and tips about their craft at News10 hosted workshops. Students and educators can share information and post content online, and the station will air student videos and interviews on their News10 Good Morning program.

How the student videos are used
Student videos created with the DV Starter Kits are promoted by SECC in a variety of ways. The SEVA Award Night is a school-year highlight; last year more than 500 students, parents and teachers attended the May event. SECC gives 16 awards in several categories as well as a commemorative t-shirt for all who attend. A clip from each entry plays before the event and a winner’s reel is shown on SECC’s cable channels and websites.

The monthly SECC-produced Student DV program features winning SEVA videos, student producer interviews and special production tip segments. Programs are also aired on cable and SECC’s websites.

Summer 2008 Classes by TV
This summer, SECC airs on cable classes from the Los Rios Community Colleges and Sac State University. For adult learners and students whose first language is not English, San Juan Adult Education reaches out to the community by offering classes to help students in a variety of areas.

Students can receive credit for distance learning courses and, of course, at home lifelong learners can tune in to improve skills, knowledge or find an enlightening alternative to other television programming.

VIEW THE SUMMER 2008 SCHEDULE

Students Explore Series

These SECC-produced programs feature student fieldtrips to different state parks and areas in California.

WATCH ON BESTNet

McClellan Aviation Museum
Join Foothill Farms Junior High and Martin Luther King Junior Middle Schools as students tour the McClellan Aviation Museum at McClellan Air Force Base in North Highlands, California. The museum takes visitors through the history of military aircraft, aircraft engines, and offers walk-through tours of different aircraft.

Chabot Space and Science Center
Viewers take a tour with Flight Director Reed Steele to learn more about the center as well as the Challenger Learning Center, a unique hands-on learning experience that transforms participants into scientists, engineers or researchers on a simulated space mission.

Ropes Course
Can climbing walls, building bridges and swinging on ropes create a positive group support atmosphere? It did for two junior high classes that connected with each other since the beginning of the school year through videoconferencing and pen pal letters and then practiced face-to-face teamwork for this fieldtrip.

Grant Joint Union School District's Connections program takes BESTNet viewers on a fieldtrip to Woodland’s Douglass Middle School Ropes Course. Students from Jessica Denning's Rio Tierra Jr. High science class (Grant JUSD) and Carl May's Alpha Technology School (Elverta USD) met at the Ropes Course where they were challenged to work as a team — not as individual schools or individual students.

For more information on the Ropes Course, call Douglass Middle School at 530-666-2191.

Fairfax Network Programs on Cable 16

Passport 2008
This series enhances a variety of curriculum areas for students, offers valuable staff development opportunities and provides a vital link between school and home with programming for parents.

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Tu | 6:00 - 7:00 pm (2 programs)
W | 6:30 - 7:30 pm (2 programs)

July 1, 22: In A Word, It’s A Bird/
Have You Heard About Herds?
           
July 2, 8, 9, 15: I Heard That!:
Listening to Classical Music
                       
July 16, 23, 30: Animals, Animals, Animals
           
July 29: Colors, Shapes and Sizes

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Meet the Author on Cable 15
This series promotes literacy and an interest in reading and writing by giving students direct access to authors who share their personal stories, offer their writing tips and encourage students to “keep reading, keep writing, keep dreaming.” During the half-hour interactive program, authors describe their approach to the writing process and talk about character development.

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M | 5:30 - 6:00 pm
W | 6:00 - 6:30 pm

July 2, 14, 28: Sneed B. Collard III

July 7, 14, 16, 21, 23: Wendy Lichtman

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Cable 16
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in cooperation with the Prince William Network, offers this satellite distance learning Performing Arts Series free to teachers and students across the country. The programs explore the performing arts areas of music, dance and theater and feature artists and companies who perform at the Kennedy Center.

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July 7, 21: Latin Jazz with Bobby Sanabria

July 14, 28: Black Grace