The 42 intermediate students in these classes have been learning from their teacher, Miss Divina Delos Santos. She is an English major who is also instructing two intermediate reading classes and advising the school's yearbook staff. This is her second year teaching media production.
During the first semester, the students' focus was mainly on different areas of Oral Communications. The students were educated on how to communicate effectively to others, through numerous self-written speeches and essays.
Different mediums of media production were slowly introduced during the first semester. The class broadcasted their first televised show on KHTV, Kauai High and Intermediate School's closed-circuit television network, shortly after beginning to work with video production equipment. Students also became disc jockeys as they started radio broadcasting as a service to the intermediate school during lunch and a number of school functions.
This is the third year Kauai Intermediate School's Media Production Class has been in existence. The class has brought many firsts in media to Kauai High and Intermediate School through their television channel KHTV; the first closed-circuit television broadcast, the first televised daily announcements broadcast, the first-ever live video feed.
The 1999-2000 year is very special in the Media Production Class history. This will be the final year the course will be available because of the construction of the "new" Kauai Intermediate School. Kauai High and Intermediate School will become just Kauai High School. Seventh and eighth grade students will be attending Kauai Intermediate School in Puhi. At this time, there is no media or video production class in the courses offered by the new school.
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