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This unique program showcases student video work, interviews and production tips — all geared to inspire and encourage you to produce educational videos!

W, Th | 5:00 - 6:00 pm

VIEW THE SHOWS ONLINE IN SECC's VIDEO GALLERY

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Podcasts
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Blog
Watch the latest videos from StudentDV and the SEVAs on SECC's new blog or subscribe to our podcasts using iTunes.

About Student DV
The Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium's
Student DV (Digital Video) is a unique program that includes participation from 16 school districts, community colleges, a local ABC affiliate, local cable company and the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Commission and inspires students to produce educational videos to share their vision and ideas. SECC produces the program monthly to showcase digital video programs created by Sacramento students, and the program is aired weekly on SECC’s educational cable channels that reach more than 300,000 Sacramento households.

SECC Production Manager Doug Niva says, “The great thing about Student DV is that SECC can showcase local students and their videos to the greater Sacramento community via cable — and the entire world — online. Student DV allows students’ videos to go beyond the walls of their classroom. During the Student DV/SEVA production process we (Niva with Production Assistant Eric Sawyer) go out to each of the school sites and interview the student producers. It’s always fun to hear how they came up with their idea, how they shot it, what they learned in the process of making their video and, most importantly, what they like most about making videos.”

Student DV features student work entered in the annual SEVA (Student Educational Video Awards) contest. Open to Sacramento county K-20 students, the SEVAs provides a variety of categories to express an educational message — PSA, school news/events, documentary and instructional/how-to.

Since many schools have a multimedia program, Student DV provides teachers with useful instructional materials to help students learn more about video production and also see what their peers are creating. Producing a video program involves much more than just taping an event. The knowledge and expertise needed for a successful production requires numerous cross curriculum skills including teamwork, ability to research topics, knowledge of subject areas, ability to communicate ideas, reading, creative writing and organization.

If you have any comments or a student-produced video you’d like to see on Student DV, email studentdv@secctv.org

Student DV wins distance education award
“Students have a voice and many visions to share and through Student DV, we can help get their message out to a broader audience”

SECC is pleased to announce that its Student DV project won an Affinity Group Award — or AFFY — that honors distinguished Distance Education projects in California. The award goes to a project, not person, and must be intersegmental, have objective outcomes, make effective use of technology, be a model for effective student/teacher accommodations and for distance and distributed education.

The Affinity Groups comprise ADEC’s (Alliance for Distance Education in California) membership and include K-12, community college, four-year colleges and universities and lifelong learning and business. ADEC is an association of more than 200 professionals dedicated to the development of distance learning.

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2008 SEVA Award Night Event
The event was held on May 14 at Folsom High School and nearly filled their theater nearly 700 attendees! Everyone had a great time, starting with a red carpet welcome for all students and teachers — complete with student paparazzi and SECC and News10 camera crews.

WATCH ALL 2008 SEVA AWARD NIGHT VIDEOS

Why do students love making videos?
Every year, students tell why they love producing videos for the SEVA contest. Take a look at the new testimonials:

SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 1
Features Florin High School student Michael Fuentes
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SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 2
Features Quinn Watson from Bannon Creek Elementary
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SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 3
Features Del Paso Heights' student Ashley Rowe
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SEVA 2008 TESTIMONIAL 4
Features three students from Pershing Elementary
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These programs feature student fieldtrips to different state parks and areas in California.

Lexington Creek Wetlands
Folsom Hills Elementary School teacher Kathy Decker and her 6th grade class walked from Folsom Hills Elementary to the Lexington Creek Wetlands to explore the habitat and find out more about the variety of animal and plant life that inhabit the wetlands. 
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McClellan Aviation Museum
Join Foothill Farms Junior High and Martin Luther King Junior Middle School as students tour the McClellan Aviation Museum at McClellan Air Force Base in North Highlands, CA, and learn about the history of military aircraft and engines.
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Chabot Space and Science Center
Viewers take a tour with Flight Director Reed Steele to learn more about the center as well as the Challenger Learning Center, a unique hands-on learning experience that transforms participants into scientists, engineers or researchers on a simulated space mission.
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Ropes Course
Students from Grant JUSD and Elverta USD met at Woodland’s Douglass Middle School Ropes Course where they were challenged to work as a team — not as individual schools or individual students.
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Children's Radio Theatre
Click on the story title below to listen or go to iTunes/podcasts/ Process Theatre to subscribe. You can also link directly to the RSS feed.

Produced by Process Theatre Productions from a San Juan Unified School district grant and featuring the talent of RSVP Improv Comedy.

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The Shape Game
Sheldon High School’s Shawn Sullivan and his students show viewers how to create their own characters from a circle, square and triangle and how each shape is the basis for a different kind of character.
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Audio tips
Chet Gould from Rio Linda High School reviews audio recording techniques and tools for video.
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Animate a bouncing ball
Shawn Sullivan and his Sheldon High School students teach you the first project animators learn — how to animate a bouncing ball.
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Create a news program
Alex Feher from Christian Brothers High School shows how to produce an on-campus news program.
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Create a flipbook animation
Have you ever wanted to make your own animation? Shawn Sullivan from Sheldon High School and two of his students show how with some basic supplies: a pencil, note cards and a binder clip.
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The Glide-Cam
What if a video tripod were attached to your body? Shawn Sullivan and Eric Hann from Sheldon High School show you how to use this tool to create smooth, moving shots.
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Grip Equipment
Vernon Bisho from Center High School teaches you about grip equipment: extension arms, c-stands, sandbags, apple boxes and more.
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The Jimmy Jib
If you want to get your camera up and over things, Vernon Bisho from Center High School shows you how to get your shots using a boom camera.
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Outdoor Lighting
Center High School teacher Vernon Bisho show viewers some simple techniques
for outdoor lighting.
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Water Balloon
Shawn Sullivan shows viewers how to animate with "follow through."
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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Provides resources for teachers and students to explore the digital story's anatomy, evolution and emergence.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
This site was created after more than 30 federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported learning resources easier to find. Student resource topics include arts, educational technology, foreign languages, health, language arts, math, physical education, science, social studies and vocational education.

Kennedy Center for the Arts
Explores the performing arts and features various artists who perform at the center.

International Children's
Digital Library
More than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages to help you understand our global society.

Fairfax Network
K-12 enrichment, staff development and parenting
for classroom use.

Kidz Online
Provides hundreds of free streaming videos and lesson plans.

Access Art
Visually exciting, innovative
workshops that show
artist-led teaching in schools, museums and galleries.

NASA for Students
This site will inspire earth-
bound students of all ages.

Kidscience
Hands-on science programs for students in grades 5-8.

Project Oceanography
Middle school students learn about a variety of ocean science topics.

PBS Kids
Games, music and info about your favorite PBS shows.

ADULT LEARNERS
Adult Learning Activities
Designed to increase literacy while improving life skills. Online lessons include listening, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension and writing.

English for All (EFA)
A free, multimedia system for older adolescents and adults seeking to learn English as a Second Language (ESL). EFA includes four hours of streaming video, comprehensive interactive Web pages and a full management system for tracking and reporting learner progress.