STAFFING & EQUIPMENT

First off, before I begin, I hope you had a wonderful holiday and awesome new years. I am still waiting to find out whether or not I will need surgery. I had a wonderful Christmas and New Years.

I have been thinking about the staffing. I figured that it would be best to find volunteers. Recruitment will be directed at college students(all levels-undergrad, grad, etc.) and high school students involved in organizations such Future Educators of America or foreign language clubs within in the Southwest Tennessee area (Shelby, Tipton, Fayette, Haywood, & Madison). I had thought about including college students in Northwest Mississippi and Central & Northeast Arkansas. I think it would be best to just start with West Tennessee, to see how the program development progresses.

As far as recruiting, I will send emails to local Universities and school boards. Emails will also be sent to private schools and homeschool programs.

When considering students and their interests for staffing purposes, I will be looking for students in the following areas of study: Education, Education Research, foreign languages/foreign language education, Teaching English as a Second Language, Intercultural Studies, Sociology, Broadcast Communication, Teacher Education, Psychology, Journalism, Advertising, Economics, Arts, Linguistics, Graphic Design/Multimedia, Literature, and History.

For the consideration of high school students, I will rely on recommendations from the high school teachers.

All students will have the opportunity to create their own reports for the program and website.

Staff Positions
Web Administrator
Researchers
Interviewers
Hosts
Program Schedulers
Advertisers
Editors
Translators
Transcribers
Program Director
Audio tech

That's just a rough sketch of the staffing ideas that I have. As time progress, I will elaborate more in detail on the roles.

Equipment
Laptop (I own one but it is on its last leg)
Audio Recorder
Recording software
Video Camera (?) I'm not sure that I will include videos with the podcast program or website

That is all for right now. Please feel free to post opinions, thoughts or ideas.

In The Beginning II

Now that you know who I am and what I am proposing to take on, I think is it fair to go into more detail.

I am not sure if the program with run the full 52 weeks in the year or not. Seeing that the first episode has not been recorded, it is a little too soon to tell. What the plan involved for the first year is that the show would run 30 minutes once a week during the time that school is in session for most teachers.

Then again what I do have to realize is that there is such a thing as summer school and year round school program that meet. But then again, how many teachers that are not working in the summer would actually want to listen to a program related to education? I am going to assume that more teachers would listen from Fall-Spring.

I have considered doing a summer program with a one hour format that would air one or twice during the summer months. The themes of the program during the summer months would probably gear toward advancing student academic progress through home activities or through extracurricular programs or camps. This is not to say that 6 main topics from the first blog post will not be incorporated in the summer programs.

This is a big undertaking, I realize. And frankly, I know probably most of you dont have time to read a long article that can easily be broken up in bite size pieces to enjoy and digest. However, I do appreciate those who take the time to read this.