Sandy Collins about their program. Media Literacy and Public Access TV Training. By Jesikah Maria Ross and Barbara Osborne. Public access television advocates seek to democratize the media by empowering community members to make their own TV programs free of the conventions and restrictions inherent in commercial programming. Ironically, given the opportunity to produce and cablecast, many access users uncritically mimic the conventions of commercial broadcasting, limitations and all.
Children find producing a multimedia presentation easy.
As teachers we need to ensure that the conceptual framework is in place so that both the children producing it and the ultimate audience will gain most from the experience. Despite the shortage of outlets, there are several ways that producers of youth media are already getting teen productions onto the radar screens of local and national programmers and audiences.