Frankfort students build TV news style broadcasts
At Frankfort intermediate, sixth grade teacher Steve Adkins leads students in creating a low budget closed circuit TV set for morning announcements. The team designed three panels for news, weather, and sports with a test pattern logo and a redbird backdrop while fifth and third graders handle daily segments.
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West Frankfort
Frankfort Intermediate School
Steve Adkins
Adkins
Channel 42
Andrea Glodich
Frankfort High School
Richard Glodich
Garret Russell
Jordan Williams
Kim Owens
Kalee Fort
Brooke Ledbetter
Meredith Pitts
Susan Hood
Sheri Baggett
Hood
Sixth grade students run school video broadcast with menu and sports
Principal Gayle Crawford announces as sixth graders take turns operating the video camera and reporting lunch menus and sports results. Hood praises the format as an improvement over the old voice from a box method, noting students are more engaged and have fun.
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Gayle Crawford
Hood
Winners named in 2004 SIRC Short Story Contest
The Southern Illinois Reading Council announced grade by grade first second and third place winners for the 2004 Short Story Contest at the Spring Celebrations on April 22 at Carbondale Civic Center. Firsts include Eli Wilson Janel Kassing teacher Grace Goetting and more across Grades 2 through 8 with stories such as The Boy Who Lost the TV Remote and The Lost Germ. Evelyn Bailey of Jonesboro Elementary received the Ellen Drake Memorial Award for leadership in teaching and for Illinois Raise-a-Reader efforts.
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Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois Reading Council
SIRC
Carbondale Civic Center
Evelyn Bailey
Jonesboro
Ellen Drake
Illinois
Eli Wilson
Red Bud
Janel Kassing
Grace Goetting
Ali Ringering
Patricia Liefer
Maximilian Brammer
Angela Rushing
Audrey Vaughn
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Chelsea Welch
John A. Logan
Murphysboro
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Hannah Parke
Longfellow
Marion
Phyllis Landwehr
Sennia Johnson
Giant City
Carbondale
Yvonne Windings
Kate Russell
Cobden
Adrienne Will
Maggie Kelley
Sue McMeen
Emma Koester
Helene Roehrkasse
Megan Reichling
Lushland
Zoe Gross
du Quoin
Frances Keller Shafer
Rylie Selander
Pat Searcy
Perthe
Courtney Carson
Leta Smith
Rachel Greenwood
Dear
Joshua Murray
Anna
Pam Hodges
In Bloom
Catherine Hamman
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Cindy Pender
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