Striving for Success

<p><strong>Striving for </strong><strong><em>Success - </em></strong><em>Season 2, Episode 15</em></p><em>Massillon Washington High School's Media Arts co-instructor could soon gain national attention with a feature in Success magazine if he gets enough votes in an online contest which ends January 28th.  As Matthew Ferrell tells OEA on this edition of Education Matters, a win would be a big honor for the students in his award-winning TV classes, too.</em><p><em><br></em><strong>MORE | Click here to vote for Matthew Ferrell in the </strong><strong><em>Success 125 </em></strong><strong>contest: </strong><a href="http://voteferrell.com/"><strong>http://voteferrell.com/</strong></a><strong><br> </strong><em> </em><strong><br>MORE | Check out some of WHS-TV's award-winning work on the program's </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WHSTVOhio/"><strong>Facebook page</strong></a><em><br></em><br><strong>Featured Education Matters guest: </strong></p><ul><li>Matthew Ferrell, Massillon Washington High School Media Arts co-instructor<ul><li>"It all started with a dream.<br>When Matthew was just a little kid, he would watch The Dukes of Hazzard on television. Beside him and close to the TV speaker, he would keep a small audio tape recorder with a blank cassette tape inside. When The Dukes would go to commercial, he would hit the record button on his tape recorder to record all of the TV commercials, Station IDs, PSAs and anything else CBS would air during the break. As soon as the show would come back on, he would hit the stop button. He repeated this process until the show was over and his audio cassette tape was filled with only the commercials from that night’s broadcast.<br>Then, he would use a boombox to record his pretend “radio show”. In his “show” he would sing songs that he made up, tell jokes, perform comedy bits.<br>“I really didn’t know what I was doing. What I DID know was this is what radio sounds like when I would listen to it everyday. So, I had to make my show sound like that,” said Matthew.<