Student DV: New shows air this fall

WATCH PREVIOUS SHOWS IN THE VIDEO GALLERY

Student DV (Digital Video) is a unique, award-winning 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 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.

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

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

Watch Student DV online or on your iPod
Podcasts
In the iTunes "Advanced" menu, select "Subscribe to Podcast" and paste http://feeds.feedburner.com/seccblog into 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.

2009 SEVA Contest and SEVA Award Night
Open to all Sacramento county students (K-20), the Student Educational Video Awards (SEVA) contest celebrates the talents and visions of student video producers.

Winners and all participants are recognized at the annual SEVA Award Night; and winning videos and producer interviews are shown on SECC's cable channels and online. News 10 airs student videos and interviews on their Good Morning program.

Why do students love making videos?
Every year, students tell why they love producing videos for the SEVA contest.

LINK TO THE VIDEO GALLERY

SEVA 2009 PROMO 1
Features student producers from Carnegie Middle School, Luther Burbank High School, Smedberg Middle School and Empire Oaks Elementary School. WATCH PROMO

SEVA 2009 PROMO 2
Features student producers from Center High School, Smythe Academy Middle School, Foulks Ranch Elementary School, Smedberg Middle School and Sutterville Elementary School. WATCH PROMO

SEVA 2009 PROMO 3
Features student producer Trevor Siegfried from Center High School. WATCH PROMO

SEVA 2009 PROMO 4
Features student producer Catherine Madrigal from Pershing Elementary School. WATCH PROMO

SEVA 2009 PROMO 5
Features student producers Israel Ramirez of Luther Burbank High School and Isabelle Perricone and Ryan Prete of Will Rogers Middle School. WATCH PROMO

CREATE A SEVA VIDEO
Creating your first SEVA video? Learn the nine simple steps to build a SEVA contest entry. WATCH VIDEO

SEVA Contest Information
The SEVA contest is open to students of all ages and entries fit into a variety of categories.

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

SEVA Categories
Documentary: An in-depth educational study about classroom curriculum topics, issues or people in current events or history.

Instructional: Provides "how to" advice or teaches a subject or skill related to an educational topic.

Public Service Announcement (PSA): A short promotional piece about an educational topic. Must be thirty seconds (:30) or one minute (:60) in length.

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

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

2008 SEVA Award Night Event
The event was held on May 14, 2008 at Folsom High School and nearly filled their theater with 690 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. The 2008 SEVAs were sponsored by SECC, Comcast and News 10.

WATCH ALL 2008 AWARD NIGHT VIDEOS

VIEW THE 2008 SEVA WINNING VIDEOS

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

Educators Receive Digital Journalist Starter Kits to Help Train Next Generation of Multimedia Learners
Twenty Sacramento area teachers received a new tool — a digital video camera and accessories — to help their students share their visions and stories with the world when they received a 2009 Digital Journalist Video Starter Kit on December 10 at Sacramento’s News10.

Through the efforts of the Gannett Foundation, News10 and SECC, this special grant program, which provided 13 kits last year, helps teach the techniques of broadcast journalism, increases student media production and encourages participation in the annual SEVA (Student Educational Video Awards) contest.

The teachers, representing a variety of school districts, met at News10 to receive their video kits, basic training and learn more about digital media from Stacy Owen, Multimedia News Director; Margaret Mohr, Vice President of Marketing and Promotions; Dale Schornack, news anchor; and SECC staff. Owen emphasized that News10 wants to help train the next generation of potential journalists and that the video kits are a tool to connect with students and allow them to tap into their passion.

The grant program allows each SECC member school district to apply for one video kit to be awarded to a school site. SECC staff and News10 journalists train students at their school sites and offer feedback and guidance.

SECC shows the students’ work and interviews on its cable channels and on its websites. Students and educators can share information and post content on an information-sharing news10.net site area, and the station airs videos on their News10 Good Morning program. This chance to be published is a unique reward for the students’ teamwork and production efforts.

One grant requirement is that the school submits at least two videos to SECC’s annual SEVA contest. Open to all Sacramento county students (K-20), the contest celebrates the talents and visions of student video producers and their work in the areas of documentary, school news/events, PSA and instructional. Winners and all participants will be recognized at the annual SEVA Award Night at Crest Theater on May 7, 2009.

For many years, SECC has instructed students about the value of video production. Special funding in 2002 from the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Commission allowed SECC to launch the starter kit program and create three video kits loaned to interested schools. SECC provides quality educational resources to learners of all ages in the Sacramento community through video and other communication technologies via cable systems and networks and is a collaborative effort of the K-20 education community.

The two Gannett Foundation grants 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.”

Summer Courses by TV on Cable 15 & 16
SECC with Sac-State and Los Rios Community Colleges offers three classes for students and home viewers to continue learning this summer.

Los Rios Community Colleges: June 15 - Aug. 5
HEED 300: Health
Achieve a high level of wellness and prevent disease by maximizing both your personal lifestyle and environments and identify the various factors influencing wellness. Topics include mental health, stress management, nutrition, weight control, fitness and disease.

M, W | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | C. 16

Sac-State (CSUS): June 8 - July 10
GEOL 140: Environmental Geology
Applies geologic data and principles to situations affecting our environment. The geologic study of earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, landslides groundwater and similar topics supplies the background data for lectures on land use and other social choices.

M, W, F | 12:45 pm - 3:45 pm | C. 15

GEOL 7: Natural Disasters
Gain an understanding of various hazards and disasters occurring in the world, the processes involved, the role of science in mitigating disasters and how mushrooming human population growth intensifies the effects of disasters. Study topics include hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, landslides and meteorite impacts and the probability and risks of each.

Tu, W, Th | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | C. 15

San Juan Adult Education: June 15 - Aug. 23
For adult learners and students whose first language is not English, these classes reach out to the community in a variety of areas.

M, W | 1:00 - 3:00 pm | C. 16
Tu, Th | 9:00 - 11:00 am | C. 16

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.