What Happens Next?

Saturdays & Sundays: 12pm

The What Happens Next? program is designed to invoke children’s imagination, to improve literacy, writing and communication skills. Children are read the beginning of an original story by award-winning authors and write their own endings. The stories and their endings are read aloud, discussed and then recorded for broadcast every week. The weekly sessions are run by Alexandra Fili, in consultation with executive producer Simone Shook, M.Ed.

Children and youth need opportunities for intellectually engaging activities that build on their strengths, teach them new skills and provide them with the potential to play active roles in their communities. One of the main aims of the collaboration is to promote imagination, creativity, reading and writing skills, which are increasingly being overlooked in today’s standards-based curriculum. WLOY has teamed up with the Baltimore Community Radio Coalition and developed an exciting way to promote reading, writing and public speaking proficiency. By making reading and writing fun, WLOY and the BCRC hope to encourage the students to read and write for pleasure.

Shows air every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm on WLOY Loyola Radio. Children participating in the program get their own CDs of shows in which they appear.

WANT TO JOIN US?

If your child would like to join us for an episode of What Happens Next? please email wloy@loyola.edu for information on our next meeting location. We meet from 4-6pm on Fridays at WLOY studios on the Loyola University Maryland campus; however, that is subject to change and you should contact us before attending, if possible. Children from 5-12 are welcome based on their reading and writing ability. The program was co-created with a MD State Certified Teacher who assists the children in their creativity and writing. Children with special needs are welcome, but please contact us in advance to ensure that the location will be handicapped accessible.

BRING WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TO YOUR SCHOOL

We are currently working with several public schools in Baltimore City to allow them to bring the program in house and we will also provide a small ProTools-based audio recording studio! The first site, Dallas F. Nicholas Sr. Elementary School, has provided wonderful additional material for our weekly broadcasts, including children interviewing staff and teachers, and much more. If you are interested, please have your principal contact us at wloy@loyola.edu.

Listen to Episode 77 of What Happens Next

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WLOY’s What Happens Next? program has been selected BEST COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT at the 2011 National Student Production Awards and was selected BEST PODCAST at the 2011 Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show Awards!