Who we are:
Lowell Educational Television, Channel 22 is the media communications facility owned and operated by the Lowell School Department. LET 22 services the entire Lowell Public School System and the City of Lowell. It is responsible for the administration of Cable Channel 22, which creates television programming of local interest and provides educational programming through satellite feed. In addition, LET 22 provides media production training to students, teachers and staff while serving as an advisory resource on various media-related technologies for the School Department.
The Lowell Public Schools is a major funding source for LET. In addition, some funding is provided by the the City of Lowell’s contractual agreement with Comcast Cable. The center of its operations is the Colleen Creegan Television Studio that is housed in the George D Kouloheras Library Media Wing of Lowell High School.
Our Mission:
Lowell Educational Television has as at its core the belief that media related technologies are remarkable tools for artistic and creative learning. The Lowell Public Schools’ focus on 21st century skills includes the audio, video and web technologies that our students will use daily in their adult lives.
LET 22 also invites all of Lowell’s professional educators to draw on our resources to discover that Media Literacy-harnessing the power and energy of what is best in communications technology-is a vital and important study for our students. We believe that through carefully considered direction and understanding, the technologies we have access to can be an invaluable ally in reaching out to and teaching the diverse elements of our community and its young people.
Finally, LET 22 is dedicated to producing thoughtful, informative and entertaining programs for the cable television audience here in the City of Lowell as well as now making these programs available world wide through the power of the Internet and burgeoning wireless technologies.
LET 22 resources are available to all Massachusetts State accredited educational institutions within the City of Lowell and to all individuals with affiliations to a Massachusetts State accredited educational institutions within the City of Lowell. Here are some of the services you can take advantage of:
We provide video production training to Library Media Specialists within each school
We provide video production training to other interested educators within each school
We support LPSD personnel by offering access to and training on various types of digital media production equipment
We provide coverage and broadcast of educational, cultural and civic events within the city
We provide access and staffing for mobile production unit television productions
We provide access and staffing for in-studio television productions
We provide connectivity between individual schools for broadcast of events via our Institutional Network
Oversee the Electronic Message Center where schools and staff can post notices and information to be broadcast on Channel 22
Administer and schedule all Channel 22 programming on a 24 hour, 7 day per week schedule
Provide access to educational programming like Annenberg imported via satellite downlinks
OK – so what does this mean to me?
You can place notices of information and events on the Channel 22 Electronic
Message Center at any time.
You can participate in media production training programs we hold periodically.
You can submit completed video tapes to us so they may be broadcast on Channel 22
You can request that our staff cover an event that is happening at your school for later broadcast on Channel 22.
You can request that our staff cover an event that is happening at your school for a ‘live” broadcast on Channel 22. Using our mobile production unit.
You can request that our staff assist you in creating a television program in Channel
22 studios for broadcast on Channel 22.
You can use the equipment in our facility to create programming of your own on an
