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What is an Accounting Technician? Accounting technicians compute and record numerical data to keep agency financial records complete. Mathematical skills are necessary to perform daily duties to...
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What is a Record Technician? The record technicians are responsible for operating the videotape recording and playback equipment for live programs, or during commercial breaks in network and taped...
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What is a Director? Directors are responsible for the overall production of a live or taped show. They supervise the crew, direct talent during taping, and oversee the editing process during the post...
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What is a Graphic Designer? Graphic designers support all production activities. Computer skills are valuable to use the software to create broadcast graphics and animations. It's very important to...
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What is a Producer? Producers develop, organize and manage local program productions. They are responsible for scripting, researching topics, story development, booking guests and overseeing field...
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Just prior to the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Main Street Latin Festival is held each year on Main Street in Columbia, S.C. The Festival provides an opportunity to recognize the...
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Dr. Shaundra Daily is a professor in the human-centered computing department at Clemson University. Her work focuses on affective computing (technology that can sense and respond to human emotion) and...
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Immigrant parents worry that their children will assimilate too quickly and get into trouble. But Maria - like most immigrant kids - works hard to be successful, to prove that her parents' struggles...
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Mario Bravo's father worked in South Carolina and rarely made it home to Mexico. She hardly knew him, and it broke his heart. Today more Latino men are bringing their families with them to the U.S...
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Griselda's case goes to court and Carlos Garrido tells us more about the consequences of deportation for Mexicans.
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The growing Latino populations is having an impact on the economy. Some say it is positive, others disagree. Whatever we think of immigration, no one can deny that people come here to make a better...
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Interpreting for the family can be difficult for kids, and sometimes dangerous. Griselda got into serious trouble when she interpreted for her aunt at an Immigration Office.
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Dr. Elaine Lacy discusses other problems immigrants face, from getting children into school to medical care, and Maria's mother talks about feelings of isolation. Hispanic Outreach and Padres en...
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Extended families separated by the realities of immigration yearn for contact. In this chapter a video letter goes to Mexico and Carlos Garrido of the University of Vercruz explains cultural identity...
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Adjusting to American schools is challenging for immigrant kids and their parents. They face a language barrier and educational systems that are very different from those in Latin American countries.
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The children of Latino families often learn English more quickly than their parents. They become the family interpreters, making phone calls, translating bills and letters and going with their parents...
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Responsibility Satch Krantz, Executive Director of Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, discusses the skill of Responsibility.
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Reading, Analyzing & Writing Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the importance of reading, analyzing and writing.
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Self-Management Representative Anton Gunn of the S.C. House of Representatives, District 79, speaks about Self-Management.
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Self-Management Sally Roach, Executive Director of Township Auditorium, discusses the skill of Self-Management.
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Listening Linda O'Bryon, President and CEO of South Carolina ETV (retired), discusses the SCANS skill of Listening.
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Flexibility and Adaptability General Major Abraham Turner, former executive director of S.C. Employment and Workforce, discusses Flexibility and Adaptability. He discusses how important these...
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Transferable Skills and Leadership Kevin Shwedo, Executive Director of the S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, discusses Transferable Skills and Leadership.
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The Peril of Doc Ock (2004) A CLOSER LOOK Some words of wisdom from the makers, SPITE YOUR FACE PRODUCTIONS. Tim: Really, the best way to learn animation is to just play around until it looks good...
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A Symphony of Horrors (1922) A Closer Look F.W. Murnau shot much of Nosferatu on location in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, using real landscapes and towns and an actual castle. This was unusual...
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The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg (1936) A Closer Look Animation is a series of stills that fool the eye into thinking it sees movement. The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg is a cel animation...
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A Closer Look Peg Leg Bates could leap five feet in the air and perform almost every known tap dance step. He never considered himself handicapped. "God showed me what to do with one leg," he said....
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A Closer Look The Danza del Venado tells a story. At first the deer is alone, happily grazing in the forest. When our video clip begins, hunters appear and the deer fights for his life. Watch the...
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A Closer Look Comedy is sometimes funnier if you can't see everything. Filmmaker Lynn Cornfoot uses off-screen action to increase the comic effect in her film Love. We can only imagine what the Wife's...
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A Closer Look This dance is part of a film in the Let's Dance series called Nougzar in Georgia. Nougzar and Guiorgui are best friends who love Georgian folk dancing. Georgian male dancers are the only...