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Greenville High School’s IMTV online project goes live!
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Digital Waves…

Photo: Jessica Transue

County News Online has a new offering for readers… Digital Waves. This is a site produced exclusively by GHS students for students, faculty, staff and anyone else interested in the “happenings” at Greenville High School.

The project started with a referral by a Senior Scribes Scholarship Committee member, Elaine Bailey, to the Greenville and Darke County Career Mentorship Coordinator, Sue Huston. Huston put CNO in touch with Lori Hoover, GHS’s IMTV instructor.

The rest is history.

GHS Senior Jessica Transue took the project from its inception and, in the midst of her other projects and classes over the last several months, planned and built the site from scratch.

"It is exciting to see Jessica’s pride and ownership in her work,” Hoover said. “She has great ideas and really has worked hard at putting this project together. We both look forward to adding new ideas and people as we expand this adventure.”

Huston said she has mentioned the project at some of her regional meetings in the career mentorship field and discovered there was a lot of interest in it. While this may not be the only undertaking of its kind, it is definitely in the forefront of new opportunities for students to become involved in online journalism as part of their learning process.

Bob Robinson, CNO editor and former editor of The Daily Advocate, following seven years at its helm, said that while the online site provides a unique information service to Darke County and area readers, its goal is to offer opportunities to future generations of communications specialists.

“We give businesses and individuals a platform to provide sponsorships to help teens in their college endeavors. But more important than that,” he said, “We are offering students a forum to display their work, and a chance to get practical experience in producing that forum.”

Robinson added that the goal of CNO’s owners, the non-profit Senior Scribes Scholarship Fund, is to get all Darke County school districts involved in the production of its own version of Digital Waves.

“Digital Waves will be the showcase,” he said. “We look for this to be an example of what a school district can do to give its students practical experience in online publishing.”

Hoover has plans to bring different GHS programs into the digital experience.

“Our next step,” she said, “is to bring on board the Greenville WaveLength, the GHS high school newspaper, in a completely digital format."

Digital Waves is also attracting the interest of Greenville Students not directly involved with IMTV or WaveLength. Teen Scribe Naiesha Thobe, who has partnered with Amy Whittington to produce a cartoon series for CNO, A Weekly Thing, is also looking forward to working with the Digital Waves project.

“The Wavelength kids are excited about this, as is Naiesha,” Hoover said. “I’m feeling really good about it.”

Digital Waves not only provides articles of interest by and for students, it also provides links to the District website, Daily Announcements, Clubs & Events, Greenville Athletics and more. Check it out at http://www.imtv.countynewsonline.org/imtv.index.html


 
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