Kinds of Programming

• Professional Development Video Workshops and Courses
• Professional Development Video Libraries
• Video Instructional Series

Who Uses the Channel?

• Schools
• Cable Access Stations
• Public Broadcasting Stations

Availability of the Channel

Kinds of Programming
Annenberg Channel programming is designed for professional development and for direct instruction. For professional development, we offer both video workshops and courses, and video libraries.

Professional Development Video Workshops and Courses
Workshops and courses bring educational leaders and teachers together to address professional issues, and to help both preservice and inservice teachers develop their craft by using the results of educational research in their own classrooms. Workshops and courses can also allow participating teachers to build their professional credentials through graduate credit and other statewide, regional, and district inservice programs. Please visit our detailed Taking a Workshop section for more information.

Professional Development Video Libraries
Video libraries are designed to allow teachers to see each other in action, by providing extensive fly-on-the-wall looks into classrooms around the country. Organized by subject, method, and grade level, our libraries correlate directly with national standards. The focus is always on best practices, but filming real students in real classrooms means that our video libraries can never preach—they’re too authentic for that. Instead, they exemplify how great teaching comes about against all odds in the real world.

Video Instructional Series
For instruction, Annenberg Media series remain among the most respected educational programming in public broadcasting and in the classroom—from favorites like The Western Tradition and French in Action, to new releases like A Biography of America and English Composition: Writing for an Audience. Our goal has always been to use the video medium not just to redistribute the same old curricula, but to expand what can be taught by cultivating video’s inherent capacity to go places no traditional classroom can go, and to juxtapose national and international experts with unparalleled and authoritative imagery.

Virtually all Annenberg Channel programming is also available for purchase on videocassette.

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Who Uses the Channel?
Any non-commercial educational or community agency can use the Channel. It is designed to serve educators at all levels, and parents, life-long learners, and the general public at home seeking excellent educational programming on a wide variety of subjects. Schools and other educational institutions, cable access stations and channels, and public broadcasting stations are the three largest groups among the many agencies using the Channel and feeding it to their audiences.

Schools
Schools use it as a fundamental source of professional development programming, for graduate credit or other professional credentials. They also find its programming useful for direct instruction and as classroom resources across the curriculum. For teachers and administrators, teacher-educators and preservice teachers, it serves as a window into real classrooms around the country, and into current best practices in almost every discipline.

Cable Access Stations
Cable access stations, whether licensed for "public," "education," or "government" access, use the Channel as a ready source of free, authoritative programming to mix and match with their own locally produced programs and round out programming schedules.

Public Broadcasting Stations
Public broadcasting stations use the Annenberg Channel to provide turnkey programming for second or ancillary channels (including those additional channels constituting one of the multiple digital streams that digital conversion will allow), and as a strong way of fulfilling their educational mandate with some of the nation’s most honored educational programming. They also use it as a rich source of free programming from which to select for their own local needs on their principal channel.

Availability
The Annenberg Channel may be available to you already. Many local public broadcasting stations and other educational organizations in all 50 states now receive the Channel and show its programming in their communities. To learn if the Channel is already available to you, make inquiries as follows: (check with these organizations before you take further steps:)

• Check with the ITV department of your local public television station.

• Ask your local cable company for the number of the agency operating the local access channels, including "public access", "education access" and "government access" channels.

• Ask your local school district if they have a digital satellite downlink.

• Call local colleges and universities to ask if they operate television or cable channels.

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