AETN

Arkansas Educational Television Network

July 2009 ATI Team C “Champions”Annette Hays Dan CaronJennifer HopperKarie KurasPhil Cleek

The Arkansas Educational Television Network

• State Agency• Non-commercial Network

• Designed to serve people of Arkansas• Affiliated with the Public Broadcasting

Service (PBS).

• Arkansas' only statewide television network• Six digital transmitter sites and thirteen

microwave sites• Broadcast signal to more than 95% of the state.

• About one-fourth is funded by private sources.

• This money is used to help acquire, produce, and broadcast general audience programs to Arkansans.

• AETN produces more than 100 hours of original programming annually featuring the people and places of Arkansas.

• More than 210,000 households watch AETN each day.

• Nearly one-half of all Arkansas television viewers turn to AETN first for programs that help people learn.

AETN provides at no charge to Arkansas Educators:

• streamed video• lesson plans • classroom presentations• student projects

AETN conducts technology workshops teaching the use of Video streaming, PowerPoint and Arkansas IDEAS for

Arkansas teachers. There have been more than 4,000 teachers participating since the

workshops began.

AETN's Arkansas Technology Institute week-long summer

sessions bring educators together at the AETN facilities for

intensive hands-on technology training

sessions. Participants then take what they

have learned to present to their peers.

AETN Scholar is the first and only instructional television channel provided for use in

professional development for educators and resources for classroom use. The channel is

broadcast full-time over-the-air as well as carried on several cable systems throughout the state of

Arkansas.

• AETN's week-long Kids Computer Academy sessions include not only computer software and safety, but allow children to experience television production. Participants who have completed grades three through five have fun while they learn, connect and grow with others.

AETN web site (www.aetn.org) has hundreds of pages of information about AETN programs and services.