Learning
Saturday, 4 July 2009
01:53AM

Pledge


Please accept my deep appreciation for sharing your commitment for quality public broadcasting through your generous gifts to WOSU. A total of $ 609,321 was raised during our year-end campaign. Thanks to you we can continue making a difference in central Ohio!

Tom Rieland, General Manager

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WOSU@COSI is open to the public!

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!

If you are in middle or high school, check out how you can submit videos for a statewide competition. Click HERE for more info.
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.

Serenata with Christopher Purdy

Saturdays at 1pm
Serenata, also known as “Adventures with the Art Song,” is a half-hour program hosted by WOSU’s Christopher Purdy. If you despair of choosing among the 500-plus recordings of Schubert lieder or want to hear Renee Fleming’s new jazz/classical album, this is the program for you. more...

SymphonyCast

SymphonyCast is a two-hour weekly radio program featuring a full-length concert by a national or international symphony orchestra. Concerts are drawn from Europe's leading ensembles, along with U.S. orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra. SymphonyCast airs on WOSU 89.7 weekly on Sunday evenings at 8pm through September. more...