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Morning announcements and student news

Start the broadcast team on the school morning announcements and news anchor practice scripts. For the studio, put a tablet under teleprompter glass, open the online teleprompter and turn on mirror text. Here's how to build a simple rig from inexpensive parts.

With a Mac in the studio, Avocado Pro's Director Mode lets a student run the prompter from a phone, or show the script on the tablet under the glass, with no extra app, over the same Wi-Fi network. School networks sometimes stop devices from connecting to each other; if yours does, a phone's hotspot can stand in.

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Presentation practice

Have students write their talk the way they speak, time it with the speech length calculator, rehearse it out loud with the online teleprompter scrolling, then present from a few cue words. The full method is in how to give a class presentation without memorizing it, and the presentation rubric scores the same skills.

Reading fluency

The reading fluency passages open in the teleprompter at a starting speed for each level. Read a passage aloud a few times, raising the speed a little each time, or slow it right down for language learners to read along.

Video assignments and podcasts

For a recorded assignment, students can keep the whole script, as long as it sits near the camera: the reading line at the top of the screen, right under the webcam. The video and podcast script templates give them a structure to fill in, and how to make eye contact on camera covers the rest.

Recording your own lessons

On a Mac, drop in a PowerPoint and its speaker notes become the script, read right next to the lens and out of the screen recording. With Pro, the prompter follows the slideshow itself: advance a slide in Keynote or PowerPoint and your notes for it come up. There's a full walkthrough in how to record a video presentation or lecture on a Mac.