LET'S GO TO THE TAPE.Byline: Marci Wormser Staff Writer LANCASTER - Donita Winn wears many hats: Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale trustee, former school bond campaign chairwoman, school volunteer and PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education. member. Recently, she added ``videographer'' to her credits. Winn and Jerri Munney, an administrative secretary, are creating videos for the Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
``You just end up adding another hat,'' said Winn, who has two teen daughters. The women volunteer their time and use video gear bought with $10,000 from the Lancaster Education Foundation. They had been using Winn's own video camera and tripod. ``I really love doing this,'' Munney said. ``You get to use a lot of your own imagination, and a lot of jobs you don't get to do that.'' The pair has produced videos on the district's Attendance Rewards program, on two student peer assistance groups, and on employees. The latter video was shown at an employee recognition dinner. Other videos are shown on cable television or to officials at other school districts. They also produced a show about Lancaster schools and the foundation that will be shown at the annual ``'Kids on Stage'' performance at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. . Currently, Winn and Munney are producing a teacher-recruitment video, which will be sent to prospective teachers and shown at job fairs. The video production suggestion came from Superintendent Steve Gocke, who got the idea from watching the Palmdale School District's local cable show ``Shaping the Future.'' Winn has experience making home movies, and Munney is proficient pro·fi·cient adj. Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning. n. An expert; an adept. with computers, but neither had experience in filmmaking film·mak·ing n. The making of movies. . They learned editing skills from Joseph West, a technician in Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley College's Instructional Multimedia Center, and they watched Palmdale teacher Ralph Bowman Ralph "Scotty" Bowman (born January 20, 1911, in Winnipeg, Manitoba - died October 171990) was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played 7 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Eagles and Detroit Red Wings. at work on the Palmdale School District's cable show to get filmmaking tips, Winn said. Winn was chosen for the endeavor because of her long history of volunteerism and her reputation as a go-getter, Munney said. In addition to leading two successful school bond campaigns in two school districts, Winn has spent countless hours volunteering at Lancaster schools. In the future, the team hopes to produce a video about the district's child-care program and about the city of Lancaster's Prime Desert Woodlands, a Joshua tree Joshua tree: see yucca. preserve. ``I don't think people know what is going on with the district,'' Winn said. ``There are some fantastic things. Communication is absolutely the key.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Volunteer Donita Winn, left, and Jerri Munney, administrative secretary, frame a shot for a recruitment video for the Lancaster School District. (2) Winn and Munney edit a project on a computer. ``You get to use a lot of your own imagination,'' Munney said of the work, ``and a lot of jobs you don't get to do that.'' Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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