Blue Ridge PBS
Instructional Television Programming
Accessing Instructional Television Resources
I.    It's All On Our Website!

In order to save money (and trees) we now have virtually all of our publications on the Blue Ridge PBS website: www.blueridgepbs.org  Don't look for your copy of the ITV schedule book. Come to the website and find these GREAT classroom resources:

  • ITV program titles and series/episode descriptions

  • Virginia SOL correlations, program descriptions and broadcast schedule in an easy to use database

  • ITV Broadcast Calendar

  • NTTI Lesson plans to download, use and share

  • The McGlothlin Awards

  • JASON Project

  • Family Literacy

  • The monthly Electronic Sundial with news you can use!
II.   School or Division Media Centers
Many schools and/or school divisions provide ITV tape libraries and series teacher's guides for their teachers.
III.  Teacher's Guide
All instructional television programs are designed for classroom use; thus their producers have designed teacher's guides with suggestions for utilization. Many teachers' guides are already available in your school library. They are a good resource for locating a program. If you know of a program and its guide is not available, check into the possibility of a personal or school purchase. Often teacher's guides are on-line or are available for a nominal fee from ITV distributors.
IV.  Curriculum Correlations
Here are some ways to find ITV programs that suit your curriculum.
  • Ask the librarian/media specialist at your school. Usually she/he is familiar with library resources including ITV videotapes.
  • Ask the ITV K-12 specialist(s) at your local public TV station for suggestions. Often, he/she has screened programs for inclusion in the schedule and can best help you locate a program in the schedule that suits a particular topic or concept.
  • Ask your RSCPC representative for information. The "Regional Schools Contracting and Planning Committee" has a representative from each school division, all of whom have personal knowledge of or access to information about programs.
  • Watch for special curriculum area suggestions in your Educational Services monthly newsletter. (Blue Ridge PBS's newsletter is called the Sundial.) Typically these are mailed to your librarian/media specialist.
  • Search the ITV/SOL database. The database contains all of the ITV titles along with correlations to Virginia's Standards of Learning.
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    It is recommended that you PREVIEW taped programs prior to use in order to use the medium as interactively as possible.
    Instructional ITV Programming - ( printable pdf file )

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