I purchased the prompter and remote bundle from B&H Photo. We’ve now moved to a monthly show that’s more of a newsmagazine format. Weekly broadcasts were a huge time suck and weren’t producing any sort of compelling storytelling. The more we thought about it though, the more we realized this was actually a blessing. I found this out just a few days before school began and the staff and I were at first frustrated that someone else had encroached on our turf. This year, announcements are handled through a new campus information system, which rendered our announcement broadcasts useless. After sorting my results for price, I stumbled on the Parrot V2. On a whim, I decided to search the B&H website to see what they had. My plan was to build one of these (which could be accomplished for around $30-$40) and purchase an inexpensive tablet and use that. I looked into various DIY options, and found several that would’ve rather cost-effective, but they all required the use of an iPad or similar tablet, which we didn’t have. It occurred to me that a teleprompter could solve some of those problems. This meant there wasn’t always a lot of time for the announcer to rehearse and many of the announcers (the students have opted to rotate this job) weren’t been able to quickly memorize the script. Typically, my multimedia editor wrote the script and recorded the broadcast in the same class (we’re on a block schedule). As the weeks went on, we made improvements, but one of the first issues I noticed was eye contact. We do not have any way to broadcast live in our building, and so we would record the announcements in advance and then I sent an email out to our faculty each week with a link to the current broadcast. Inspired by our school’s makerspace instructor who teaches a bias toward action, we launched the broadcast at the beginning of September. Our building has had issues with communication for years, and so the students have implemented a weekly announcement broadcast as a service to the school. At the time, I had one Student Media Production class of seven kids (this year we have 14 on staff) that is responsible for both our yearbook and our website (my program is fully converged). Last year my students added broadcast to our student media program.