Learning

Thursday, 18 March 2010
03:35PM

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Visitors to our media center will be greeted by our digital welcome mat, and can see themselves on U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. You can also take a peek inside our television studios. more...


LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!

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In April of 1952, the Federal Communications Commission allocated 242 channels—162 UHF and 80 VHF—for noncommercial, educational use.  WOSU TV was one of the first 30 educational stations to go on the air.  In Ohio, eight public television stations were licensed, strategically located to cover the entire state to make instructional programming (ITV) available to schools, kindergarten to 12th grade.
 
Today, ITV is only a small portion of technology-enhanced services to schools.  Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio (ITSCO) develops and delivers services to schools including the scheduling of instructional programs for broadcast on WOSU TV. 
Click here for broadcast schedule.

With digital technology, WOSU TV is moving beyond the typical over-the-air broadcast of educational programming to provide K-12 teachers what they really need to use media in the classroom. 

  • Through a partnership with ITSCO, thousands of short educational video clips are now available to teachers and students on demand.  To check the instant video library go to www.chalkwaves.org.
  • More digital educational material is available through a coalition of Ohio's public television stations and educational technology agencies.  To review the resources go to www.ohiodigitalclassroom.org/
  • More than 3,000 lesson plans and activities are available to you on PBS TeacherSource www.pbs.org/teachersource/
  • Click here for free access to Teachers’ Domain! a media-on-demand resource offering streaming video, multimedia learning tools, and corresponding lesson plans from NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, and other award-winning PBS programs.

  • Teaching Science to the MTV Generation

    Teaching Science to the MTV Generation is a professional development module for high school science teachers. It draws from the expertise of Dr. Susan Fisher, Professor of Entomology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Fisher believes in the multimodal approach in teaching and learning. Collaborating with professionals across disciplines, she has created a series of learning objects that explain scientific phenomena in many modalities: aural, visual, kinesthetic—in dance, in music, in computer graphics. Here are some of the learning objects produced by these collaborations.

    DANCING DNA
    http://streaming1.osu.edu/ramgen/media2/bio101sp06/dna.rm
    Modern dance and computer graphics combine to convey the essentials of DNA replication and cell division (mitosis).

    TBDBITL MARCHES THE KREBS CYCLE
    http://streaming1.osu.edu/ramgen/media2/bio101sp06/tbdbitl.rm
    The Krebs Cycle, an energy producing cycle in cellular metabolism, is metaphorically illustrated by The Best Damn Band in the Land—The Ohio State Marching Band. As the band performs, a computer animation of the cycle plays along side the marching band.

    FOOTBALL AND PHOTOSYNTHSIS
    http://streaming1.osu.edu/ramgen/media2/bio101sp06/football.rm
    Eight members of The Ohio State University football team perform the Z-scheme of photosynthesis. Football coach Jim Tressel provides the narration.

PBS TEACHERS
PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

Movies with Joyce and Rico

Listen each week as WOSU film critics Joyce and Rico Long review the latest movies. They praise or pan the latest Hollywood blockbusters as well as lesser-known independent films showing in central Ohio. more...

Metropolitan Opera

Saturday afternoons. 1pm. WOSU 89.7FM
WOSU Presents a full season of the Metropolitan Opera. The season runs from mid-December through May 8, 2010. more...