Prospect High School
So, Chrissy, being a school librarian at Prospect High School, help me understand some of the biggest impacts that the Swank K-twelve Streaming platform has on you as a librarian in your library. What I have noticed is the number of teachers and staff who are asking for films that are no longer available on DVD. So the difficulty is access. Is it equitable? Students may not have access to some of these streaming platforms because there are so many streaming platforms available. It can be very confusing about where to find a film. Now with Swank and a teacher having access, the film is available for them. And we hear that from a lot of our librarians, that the Swank consolidation of a movie library into one access point that teachers can visit and scroll through that movie library has been really helpful. Yes. Can you maybe speak a little bit about maybe one subject area in your school that’s really benefited from the Swank streaming platform? I think one wonderful benefit of having access to all these films is with our world language classes. It’s wonderful not only to be able to, you know, of course attend class, but how do you incorporate that language into your life when maybe that language isn’t spoken into the household? Now students can not only watch that film in the language that it was spoken in, but you know, even put on subtitles. And so it really is an engaging way to immerse yourself into learning, a second language. That’s such a good point. And we do hear that from a lot of our schools with our streaming platform. There’s so many subject areas that are able to utilize film to really engage their students. To your point, maybe it’s something that they aren’t experiencing it. A lot of our history courses are using film to say, Hey, we’re gonna watch Selma today. You didn’t live through that time period. We’re now gonna look and experience what it was like to live through that. And Selma is actually rated one hundred percent historically accurate. It’s such a great way for teachers to allow students to get that experience and feel those emotions. And I think really to that point, the power of film is to see life through a different lens. Sometimes your world is opened up and you didn’t realize what maybe somebody else might be facing in the world. Well, Kristine, thank you so much for joining us. You are such a pleasure to work with, a friend and customer that we always enjoy having. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much, Courtney.