2010 Convention Recap

WHAT A CONVENTION!!
Welcome back TYSCers. If you were at 2010’s BEA convention, you know there was tons of great information and ideas. If you weren’t at the convention – WHY NOT? That’s okay, I already know the answers – no funding, bad timing, didn’t think I’d get anything worthwhile out of it, I had to defend my doctoral paper (see how I worked that one in, Brian?)

Well, we can’t do anything about the funding, goodness knows everyone is hurting these days. And we appreciate everyone’s situation. Actually, there were a couple of hundred more registrants at this year’s convention than last year. But, the more the merrier. And BEA will be changing their meeting dates for next year, so hopefully, more of you can make it. Which takes care of the bad timing (we hope).

And what do you mean you didn’t think you would get anything out of it? That’s like the franchisee who attended the annual meeting for Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffees one year (I just happened to have been the advertising/PR director and put together the convention). He said it was a waste of money because no one told him anything he could use for his store. Well, we tried to have something for everyone and, it turns out, he did use some ideas after he got back to his store. So, try to plan on next year. We’d love to see you there AND hear what you have to say about your program – it might help someone else.

Here’s what’s in your newsletter:
1) DATES – CHANGES FOR 2011 CONVENTION
2) HIGH SCHOOLS PART OF BEA
3) FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS WINNERS
4) NEW FACEBOOK PAGE
5) BEA SCHOLARSHIPS
6) PANELS FOR 2011 CONVENTION

DATES – CHANGES FOR 2011 CONVENTION
Okay, off the soapbox (for a little while) and on to the news. RTNDA (Radio-TV News Directors Association) will not be having their convention at the beginning of the NAB convention. So, BEA will be shifting BACK to where it used to be many years ago and overlap the beginning of NAB. Here are the TENTATIVE plans:

NAB – April 11 – 14, 2011. Tentative BEA convention: April 9 – 13. This will mean a great number of things for you. First of all, you’ll have more time to walk the NAB floor, attend NAB sessions, and still have time to get to a ton of BEA sessions.

Also, BEA will hold their sessions in the Hilton with all the room conveniently next to each other. So, start putting aside your pennies for rooms at the Hilton. This way, we’ll all be closer together and can make the exchange of information and camaraderie a ton better. (Yes, editorial comments are within my purview).

HIGH SCHOOLS PART OF BEA
Next is some REALLY EXCITING news!! I take personal pleasure in announcing a tremendous BEA outreach to high schools. This is something I’ve been pushing for for the past 8 years or so because your (college) students are coming from the high schools and many high school broadcasting programs rival some college programs. I want to thank the BEA, district 7 officials, two year small college interest division officials and all the members of those groups for welcoming me and my crazy ideas for the past number of years.

In 2009, BEA authorized high school broadcast programs to become associate members. This year, the organization (through district 7) is officially sponsoring a nationwide high school video festival. This means the world’s largest professional broadcasting organization (NAB), through it’s educational arm (BEA) will be honoring the work of high school broadcasting students from around the USA. THAT is EXCITING! I will have specific details about it in another post real soon (since I’m typing this on the plane and left the sheet with the details in my checked luggage like an idiot.)

Additionally, next year’s BEA convention will have special programs for high school teachers and students. Sooo, here’s what we need everyone in the Two-year/Small School division to do:
- make sure YOU are a member of BEA
- REACH OUT to your feeder or area high schools that you know have broadcasting / film / radio programs
- Invite them to become members of BEA and encourage them to enter the high school video festival and attend the 2011 convention
- If you haven’t already done so, start thinking about working on articulation agreements with your area high school broadcasting programs; we’re proposing such a session for the 2011 convention

My goodness, if that wasn’t enough excitement for the price of admission, I don’t know what it is. BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE!!

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS WINNERS
We want to thank Tom McDonnell of Metropolitan Community College for his tremendous service these many years heading up the Two-year/Small College division Festival of the Arts competition. For the foreseeable future Jim Crandall of Aims Community College will be taking over the reins. Speaking of the Festival of the Arts, entries were a bit down this year. We’ll be putting out another post here of the rules and regulations so hopefully more of you will enter the competition.

The winners of the 2010 Two-year/Small College Festival of the Arts competition are:
Audio Production Category –
First Place – Mallory Terrence, Gillian Davis and Caitlin Friel, Cabrini College
Second Place – Christopher R. Cuilao and Elly Delim, Grossmont College
Third Place – Matthew Jutjens, Parkland College
Honorable Mention – Breanne L. Ahearn, Grossmont College

Video Production Category –
First Place – Troy A. Ten Eyck, Chattahoochee Technical College
Second Place – Ameila Heine, David Reeves, Jenny Mischler and Lindsey Coe, Berry College
Third Place – Avedis Ovakimyan, Danielle Rodriquez and Xenia Martinez, University of La Verne
Honorable Mention – Yuri Butler, Anthony J. Mccoll and Zach Trees, Hartford Community College
Carlos M. Prieto and Chris M. Everett, Chattahoochee Technical College

Congratulations and, again, we encourage all of our BEA 2YSC members to submit entries for next year. Let’s see if we can top 30 entries, that’s your challenge.

NEW FACEBOOK PAGE
We’ll have pictures of the winners on here as soon as possible and we’ll also post them on our NEW FACEBOOK PAGE. That’s right, you can become a fan of the BEA Two-Year / Small College Division Facebook page. Do it now. Tell your friends. We’ll use it as an exchange of ideas, contacts for panels, job postings, you name it. Don’t forget! Do it before midnight tonight – BEA Two-Year / Small College Division fan page on Facebook.

BEA SCHOLARSHIPS
Another thing regarding winners and contests – there are TWO scholarship competitions for the Two-year / Small College division. Only one was given out this year. If we don’t use it we’ll lose it. So, get to the BEA web site and download the scholarship applications. And this goes for you high school broadcasting teachers too. One of the scholarships can go to a high school broadcasting student who will go to a BEA Two-year/Small College member school (I was going to say institution but that sounds so medical.) So, don’t wait. There are specific deadlines for getting the applications in. And, PLEASE, teachers – please make sure you review the application before it’s sent in. Make sure all questions are properly answered. ”The BEA Two Year Award is for study at member schools offering only freshman and sophomore instruction, or for use at a four-year member school by a graduate of a BEA two-year campus. Deadline – BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON OCTOBER 12, 2010. NO FAXED OR E-MAILED MATERIAL WILL BE ACCEPTED.”

PANELS FOR 2011 CONVENTION
Okay, time to discuss panels for next year. Our division had 10 panels this year and they were great. But we think we have some even better ones proposed for next year. We encourage Two-year/Small College members who have not been on panels before to consider being on them next year, especially if you are up for tenure. Leading a panel or participating on one is great for the vitae. And high school teachers should consider being part of panels – you get some great CPDUs. And we’d like to get some new viewpoints from you. Us oldtimers (wait, is that proper English?) are getting tired of listening to each other – JUST KIDDING! )

So, here are the panels that were proposed (please let me know if I have all the information from our meeting):

1. Annual Audio/Video Showcase – for those who don’t know, each year the 2 year/SC division takes their Paper Submission panel and opens it up to schools to showcase video and audio work that has not been submitted to the Festival of the Arts. I’ve had the pleasure of showing the short films my high school students have produced over the past five years. It’s a great place to also get ideas and see-hear the work that other schools are doing. But we’d like to do something a bit more with next year’s panel – there might be two sessions: one for high schools and one for colleges, and we’d like more samples of work. So, start putting together your ‘reels’ and let’s see what your students are doing. We’ll have more details on how this one will be shaping up as we get closer to the convention.
2. “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” - 2+2+2 – We’ve had this panel several times before but this one is going to be different. And it ties in with our new outreach to high schools. We will be focusing specifically on how to set up an articulation program between high school broadcasting programs and colleges and junior colleges. We already have three members who would like to be on the panel including the City Colleges of Chicago which is nearing the completion of an agreement with the Chicago Public Schools. If you have such a program and can offer detailed insights into how it’s done, please consider volunteering for the panel. We’d like to add one or two more.
3. “Where’s The On Switch?” – Meeting the Needs of the Workforce Community – Student Learning Outcomes are the watchword of education and this panel will discuss how to set up advisory boards, use their input to develop/refine/adjust curriculum to attain student learning outcomes that meet workforce needs. Not just for broadcasting, but for all workplace skills. There will be focus on internships as well. We’re looking for a moderator and 3-4 panelists
4. “I Can Do That” (look it up, a song from A Chorus Line) – Making Connections in the Community – hopefully in conjunction with CC&A, how do you provide additional learning opportunities for your students outside the campus. Real-world work opportunities through joint ventures. We have a moderator and a panelist and we’d like a couple more who have been successful in setting up joint ventures.
5. “Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over?” – with the need to utilize your space, your program, your resources in order to justify the expenditures, how do you maximize your facilities when the kids have gone home for the day? How do you reach out to the adult learner? Adult learners looking to change their career paths, looking to learn communication skills, or wanting to ‘live the dream’ of being a broadcaster. What are the pluses and minuses of adult education courses? Jim Crandall has agreed to set this up. Who else?
6. “Byond U Toob” – How to do professional work on a small budget – got a lot of interest in this one. Dan Kimbrough of Misericordia University has said he’ll work on this and we’ll try to do it in partnership with PAC.
7. “The 4 A’s and You” how to turn your program into a certification center – what would that mean to you and your program? What are the skills your students will need when they walk out your doors and hit the ground running in the business. We will try to get educational representatives from Adobe, Avid, Apple and Autodesk to inform us how to do it.
8. “Is That An HD Camera In Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy To See Me?” – okay, so I played with the title a bit. But really, think about it. Backpacks/ flypacks – how do you maintain quality, how can you afford it? Gwin Faulconer-Lippert of Oklahoma City Community College (and our District 7 leader) has agreed to moderate this one and is looking for panelists. Maybe we can get a manufacturer too (maybe sponsor something and be on the panel)
9. “My G-G-G-Generation” – how do you change student expectations from the Me and Millenial generation of kids. The instant gratification of YouTube, Facebook, IPad, IPhone – how do you marry their abilities – expectations with the needs of the industry and the expectations of the curriculum? Evan Wirig of Grossmont College and (please forgive me but my notes don’t jibe with people who signed in at the meeting) Judy (?) have agreed to work on this and we’ll need a couple more – how about maybe a student or two?
10. “The Total Package (or Wrestlemania 2011)” – how to integrate different departments into your program and vice versa. Possible tie-in with Fox or CBS sports(?) This one needs more input and information, so keep those cards and letters coming in folks.
11. “Balancing Demands (or The See-Saw Effect)” – again, this one needs some more input. Jim Crandall and Dan Kimbrough have agreed to work on this one so I’ll look to you two guys for more details on what will be covered.
12. “Ooops, There Goes Another One, Kerplop!” – where are you going to get your new teachers to replace retiring faculty? In this economy, are small schools going the way of adjunct? How do you maintain quality teaching, meeting expectations and all that stuff. What about accreditation? Shane Tilton of Ohio University (and our Vice Chair) is going to moderate and Donna Gough of Claflin University and Gary Martin of Cosumnes River College have agreed to be on the panel. We’re looking for one or two more, maybe a state education official?

WOW! That’s a ton o’ panels, ain’t it? Okay, so here’s what we need now. I need more input from you to ‘flesh out’ the descriptions before we submit them. And we have to do it ASAP!!!! The deadline is fast approaching. Please, please, please – oh, pretty please.

FOCUS FOR 2011
To recap, the big focuses for BEA and our division for next year are HD and high schools. Keep that in mind. Don’t focus your outreach. Don’t forget the change of dates. Don’t forget to keep your head above water when all around you are drowning. (Sorry, that just came out.)

     Keep coming back here for updates. Leave your input on the panels and anything else I probably left out from my notes. Here’s a new one that I thought of one day in conversation with some of the guys on the way to lunch:
     Those who can, do. Those who’ve done it, teach.

     Remember, we’re educating the future leaders of America (and broadcasting). Let’s get it right, they’ll be in charge when we’re old and gray. (Okay, some of us are ALREADY old and gray, but I’m talking way older.)
     Have a great rest of the year. Don’t be a stranger during the summer.

     – Roger Badesch, your friendly neighborhood newsletter editor/web guy

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