Iowa retiree Susan Wakefield can talk technology and teach it to her compeers too.

SUSAN WAKEFIELD IS NOT the kind of senior citizen who has to ask her grandchildren for help programming her VCR In fact, she teaches tribe how to use far more sophisticated equipment.

The 66-year-old Wakefield (below at right), first became interested in video and television production toward the fall of the curtain of her career as an elementary language arts teacher.

"I'd had a certain number of experience videotaping classroom lessons, and I learned that a local cable company could provide the equipment and training for a like reason we could make and broadcast pupil productions," says Wakefield, a member of the NEA/ISEA-Retired Program. She pursu the idea and quickly caught the video bug-earning standard of value in retirement by videotaping weddings and producing a professional video forward warehouse safety.

Three years ago, Wakefield got involved with the Iowa City/Johnson shire Senior Center, which operates its confess TV studio, Senior Center TV Assisted by the agency of graduate students from the University of Iowa, offers learn every aspect of television production and create their confess programs, which air on local cable and shroud everything from studio interviews to videotaped displays of the senior center's band and choir. Sometimes Wakefield does the teaching.

"I be in love with the variety of work," says Wakefield. "Most of all, I be in love with watching our TV staff offers active in something that allows them to age creatively." -MATT SIMON

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