North Whiteville Academy

Episode 19: World View Project

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:46:12 -0400

Our students completed the research component of the ancient Ramayana character project. After the research, students wrote descriptive essays and printed out images of the character. Students worked in teams to construct face masks using paster. Mrs. Palmer’s students then decorated their masks to reflect the characteristics of the ancient Ramayana character they researched.

After the completed their masks, we interviewed the students for a podcast.

This project is part of our World View initiative in Whiteville City Schools.

“Think globally, and acting locally”.

Episode 18: Poster Project

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:05:37 -0400

This podcast episode features Mrs. Genie Palmer's students of North Whiteville Academy. Mrs. Palmer teaches World History. Her students are interviewed as part of their Egyptian Gods Poster Project.

This project is correlated with NCSCOS Goal 2, for World History.

Episode 17: Visit to Cuperinto, CA

Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:30:48 -0500

Our school district was invited by Apple, Inc. to discuss how their company supports educational goals of schools world-wide. This trip was paid for by Apple Executive Briefing. Our delegation participated in a day and a half of intense hands-on sessions with a wide variety of Apple Engineers. As a long time computer user and self proclaimed “power users”, I learned many tips that I will be sharing my fellow educators and students. This podcast is a brief snap shot of some of what we saw and heard while in Cupertino.

Episode 16: Earth Day Rap

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:33:58 -0400

This is a rap performed by our students as we celebrated Earth Day ’07. It seems like yesterday to me when I was a college student at Chapel Hill. We celebrated something called Apple Chill. I think it was a type of earth day celebration. I used GarageBand to enhance it, but did not add the intro and extro that a good podcast should have...sorry. In a rush.

Episode 15: March Mashup

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:53:53 -0400

April is almost half way over and I just noticed that we had not posted a podcast in March. Ouch! In this episode, we chat with two North Whiteville Academy students. One is a middle school student, the other is a high schooler. Dondi shares how he has been using Quizlet to learn vocabulary. Students earn classroom credit for completing short assignments on Quizlet.

Here's how it works:

1. Students enter a vocabulary list of key science terms words. On their own time, at home or at the public library, students can drill and practice additional terms. (ex. SAT words, history dates, French-Spanish translations, etc.)
2. Quizlet has a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly-generated tests, and collaboration tools for classmates to help each other study those words.
3. “You ace your test.”

Here are some neat features:

1. Quizlet keeps track of the words its users know and only retests on the ones not mastered. This provides students with immediate feedback.
2. Students can share their word sets with classmates and get email notification when others make sets for them.
3. Words can be imported from a text file without having to retype them into Quizlet. This reduces lots of typo errors for students that are not accustomed to keyboarding or have learning challenges.
4. Quizlet has accent buttons for typing letters in foreign languages.
5. Students can discuss sets with classmates via group discussion boxes.
6. Quizlet works in any language.

If you can type it into your keyboard, you can study it on Quizlet.

Tyson describes a new feature of Quizlet. Listen to his reason for using Quizlet.

The last segment is from a Friday Seminar. Students explored chemical bonding. A video from United Streaming detailing the characteristics of various chemical bonds. Students researched ionic, and covalent bonding. Information was shared and evaluated by groups. They worked in small groups to construct a poster to describe the different types of bonding. The class then sang a song they found on the Internet titled “The Atoms Family” which is a play on words for a favorite 60’s TV show and its theme song. The words were written by Kathleen Crawford, 1994.