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YOU'VE GOT A FACE FOR RADIO! teaches participants to produce and host radio shows. Episodes will be recorded as podcasts and available on demand via the Internet. They may also be broadcast via the school's or organization's loudspeaker, and "performed" live in public assemby programs.

Modules - which may be selected and customized according to school budgets, schedules and available space and equipment - include:

  1. Defining show topics and identifying interview subjects,
  2. Defining each episode's goals and selecting appropriate formats,
  3. Applying the 3 R's in media projects,
  4. Working with sponsors and stakeholders,
  5. Conducting interviews,
  6. Marketing and promoting radio shows,
  7. Hosting online shows and performing voiceovers,
  8. Researching subjects online and in the library,
  9. Photographing subjects (digital or analog cameras are required; cameras may be disposable),
  10. Videotaping subjects (analog or digital camcorders are required),
  11. Working with ambient sound and sound effects (analog or digital sound recorders are required),
  12. Podsafe content and digital rights management,
  13. Making, managing, and marketing social media (e.g., podcasts, blogs and vlogs),
  14. Public assembly/presentation a la A Prairie Home Companion,
  15. Reflection and lessons learned

CATEGORIES: Literature, Music, Theater, Visual Arts, Professional Development.

NYS STANDARDS: I, II, III, IV.

About the Instructor

Professor Lisa Tolliver began hosting and producing award-winning radio shows in 2000. She also works with digital, "New Media," as a journalist, creative artist, teaching artist and consultant, and has earned honorable recognitions for that work as well as invitations to lecture and work with various organizations in the USA and internationally.

In 2007, Professor Tolliver became a sponsored artist at Performance Zone (dba The Field) and the organization's first member to specialize in electronic media. In 2008, her firm - 360 MERIDIAN, LLC - became an Arts:Ask For More Official Partner, registered at PerformersandPrograms.com, and joined the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable.

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