TASMANIAN MEDIA SKILLS MEETS LEADING LIFELONG LEARNING CONFERENCE
For three weeks during early July hundreds of delegates from throughout Australia, including some international guests, congregated in three different hot-spots across Tasmania to take part in the highly acclaimed Leading Lifelong Learning education conference. On hand to capture all the inside whispers were a number of up-and-coming reporters from surrounding high schools undertaking the Tasmanian Media Skills project.
Broadcasting for Tasmanian-based community radio station, City Park Radio, groups of four students were dubbed ‘official’ reporters at the event. The media teams sat in on conference plenary sessions and workshops in Burnie, Launceston and Hobart where they rigorously jotted down notes as discussion mounted around some of today’s most contentious educational debates. Well aware that controversy sells, the young investigators had no qualms in arming themselves with microphones and making fast tracks toward the faces leading discussions for further comment after each session.
Following a day of note-taking, recording and question-and-answer, the journalist groups then took on the assignment of producing quality pieces of information to be aired across local Tasmanian radio airwaves. Covering an array of topics around education including an exclusive interview with the State Minister for Education, Paula Wriedt, MP.
The presence of the groups at the conference and echoing on-air heightened the awareness of the profound impact of the Media Skills Project on the Tasmanian education community.
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