{"id":5381,"date":"2015-04-06T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:07:15","slug":"find-an-authentic-audience-for-public-service-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/find-an-authentic-audience-for-public-service-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Find an authentic audience for public service announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Help your students’ PSAs find their public<\/h2>\n

\"find<\/a>Student-made PSAs are a great way for students to engage in project-based learning with real-world impact. Especially if they join up with community partners to tackle local issues.<\/p>\n

But once the PSAs get made, how can you help them find an authentic audience?<\/p>\n

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Go on TV or the radio: it’s easier than you’d think.<\/h2>\n

Public, educational and government access television (known collectively as PEG) maintain public access television channels for content created by community members. Vermont actually has the highest number of PEG stations per capita in the country: 26 community access centers that sponsor 40 different television channels.<\/p>\n

Here’s a PSA made entirely on an iPad, by students at Essex Middle School as part of a series they worked on with the Burlington-based community access television group RETN<\/a>:<\/p>\n