Lights,camera, podcast! Jamie's podcast

Jamie shares her skills with GarabeBand and Photoshop.

Lights, Camera, Podcast! Jane and Ben's podcast

Jane and Ben's first podcast. Enjoy!

Lights, Camera, Podcast! - Session 2, Week 1

During the first week, the Multimedia class has been working on digital image editing and sound recording. Students learned how to create, edit, crop and optimize digital photos and images for the web using Adobe Photoshop. Students also learned the basics for recording and editing digital sound to create an enhanced podcast using GarageBand.
Check out their final products in the next Light, Camera, Podcast! posts featured on this blog. In this post, enjoy Camilla and Olivia's podcast.

Below, a slideshow with shots of our first week.

Creative Writing - Session 2

Students began the first week of class writing their autobiographies. We then went on to discuss fairy tales, reading a few before the students wrote “round robin” fairy tales, where each girl wrote a few sentences before handing the story off to a classmate so they could add more. The class ended the week playing with words and writing poems.

Bible Stories That Speak to Us - Session 2, Week 1

During the first week of the Bible stories class, we became desert nomads, lived in a tent and about to heard stories about Joseph, his eleven brothers, and his dreams. We also had lentil soup served near the "fire" and performed one of the stories.

Robotics - Session 2, Week 1

During the first week of Session 2, students are building a TriBot. Some have begun programming, making their robot move forward, backwards, turn and change acceleration. Next week, the students should be able to program the TriBot to grab a ball when given a sound command (through its Sound Sensor ), follow a line with its Light Sensor , feel objects with its Touch Sensor , and see with its Ultrasonic Sensor. Enjoy the sideshow below with the building process.

Edible Science

This week, experiments with bananas and dairy:

We all know that bananas turn from green to yellow when they ripen, but how many of us know why? This week the students examined the chemical composition of bananas and discussed what happens when things ripen. We experimented with the effects of air on the ripening process by creating different environments for each banana. Does it matter if the banana is exposed to air? To another ripened banana? We'll see! And best of all, we'll taste because this is edible science!


To further explore the ripening process, we turned our attention to milk and cream. After a discussion about what happens to milk to turn it to cream, yogurt, or cheese, we tried our hand at it! The students added cultures to cream to create our own version of creme fraiche, a French favorite. Within a few hours the cream should thicken and turn a bit sour. Now the students know what's behind the process... that is, if it all goes as planned!

Digital Photography - Session 1

In this class, students captured important moments in time with friends and family and explored some basic photography concepts. In the photos, students explored perspective.

Lights, Camera, Podcast! Session 1

In this multimedia class, students worked on digital image editing and sound recording.
Students learned how to create, edit, crop and optimize digital photos and images for the web using Adobe Photoshop. Students will also learned the basics for recording and editing digital sound to create a podcast using software such as Audacity, Garage Band and iTunes.

In this posting, enjoy the podcast created by Alexa and Channing.

Lights, Camera, Podcast! Session 1 - Drew and Manny's podcast

Drew and Manny share their podcast

Robotics - Session 1

During Session 1, students built a TriBot, using Lego Mindstorms NXT. TriBot is a flexible and fast 3-wheeled driving robot! It takes advantage of all four sensors to do the the students programmed it to do. TriBot can grab a ball when you give it a sound command (through its Sound Sensor ), can be programmed to follow a line with its Light Sensor , can feel objects with its Touch Sensor , and can see with its Ultrasonic Sensor.

Magical Math & More - Session 1

Session 1: June 22–July 2

This class strengthened the students' math skills to build a foundation for success! A variety of hands-on activities and games helped them find the magic in math. The students explored mathematical concepts and strengthened skills.

Adventures in Art: Crafts & Scrapbooking (Session 1 – Week 2)

"In Art we made 2 scrapbooks - one out of a calendar and one out of a book for kids/toddlers. We also learned how to make envelopes that hide in your page! Art was VERY fun because I learned more about Art than I knew before." - Isabelle J.

Creative Writing (Session 1- Week 1)

During the first week, students wrote musical stories: Each student wrote a short few sentences of a made up story, then the kids switched chairs and went to and kept writing it.
Students also worked on many other writing assignments: Letters to a teacher, fiction, and non-fiction stories. They also wrote poetry and they looked at pictures and wrote about them from the point of view of the photographer and also the subject in the photo.

Top Chef (Session 1 - Week1)

Students are learning a variety of cooking methods and they are gaining confidence using a knife. We started off with how to work safely in the kitchen. Discussed sanitation requirements. Then moved into some “real deal” cooking. We made a puff pastry quiche Loraine with Gruyere cheese and smoked bacon. Then, a variety of fresh fruit smoothies.

In the photos, fresh chunky guacamole used as an ingredient in a Monterey Chicken Wrap.