Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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Broadcasting video recordings throughout the school. Mabel Okabu monitors one of the four in-school channels used daily for media presentation. Steps leading to the media center have become love seats' for many couples. Allison Gilchrist and Larry Berg find these seats a comfortable hideaway With more students than ever in school, more people chose the media center to visit before school. Whether to quietly chat or work on pro- castinated assignments, the center became a hub of morning activity. One of the many extra offerings available in the media center was the photographic services. Sherry Wayman, aide, helped teachers with photographic assignments and graphics requests. 116 • Media Center

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1 Demonstrating for her successful volleyball squad. Coach Kathy Nielson shows how to perfect a required move. Peeking from behind the projector. Mr Roger Miner prepares to show film for junior class dealing with class rings. At parent teacher conferences. Mr Dittman talks with parents about assignments in his department. This year's conference was held at midterm to help students save their grade. Preparing to enter a skit. Coach Dave McConnell, catches a wink or two to get into character. Keeping a close eye on the field, players, and plays. Coach Ken Black records stats'' at the Kearns Alta game Teachers • 115

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Media-Behind The Scenes Over in the corner table, Clever Clyde tries to eat his cheese puffs without the aids or Miss McNamara noticing. Jane writes comments on her table about Ruby who stole her boyfriend. A gang of boys hide behind the bookshelves, hiding candy bar wrappers and Hi-C cans. These soap opera events were just minor duties of the staff personnel and media coordinator. To keep a media center running smoothingly required maintenance, planning, and assi- tance to the increased numbers of students searching through the center for research information and reading materials. The media center, of course, had its large selection of hardback and paperback books, but the facility also contained valu- able supplementary materials which re- quired the time and dedication of the me- dia staff to keep organized and accessible. Posters, pamphlets, filmstrips, slides, re- corders, records, video tapes, and daily newspapers were available to teachers and students everyday. These of course re- quired the daily tasks of filing, shelving, stamping, xeroxing, checking out, and con- stant cleanup. And in the work areas of the media cen- ter, Jay Burkinshaw, audio visual coordina tor supervised behind-the-scenes services to the school. Just as he begins to prepare to run a two-color cover plus a four page insert for the school play program, a teach- er frantically runs in and hystericalizes, the bulb went out in my projector. Print- ing programs for school events, forms for the office, large runs for departments and mailings to go to homes in the community, kept Jay, his aid, and student aides busy. But in addition to the printing and audio- visual equipment, there were photographic services and video broadcastings that were continuous. Miss Kay McNamara and Jay Burkin- shaw ordered materials, set up. and have guided that media center since the opening of Alta High School. Each day the center is open and ready for business before any student even comes through the front doors. One of the special duties of the Media Center is taken care of by Kay McNamara at her sink in the center's workroom. Besides printing up programs, taking pho tos. organizing movies and video tapes, the media center handles the hectic happenings in the library Media Center »117