SCHS SENDS MESSAGE TO GHANA

---

The following email messages were part of our first correspondence with our partner school in Ghana.

 

From: isaac botchwey [i.botchwey@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 10:05 AM
To: lhewett
Subject: Re: Ghanaian exchange

Message received, its an interesting piece. We are currently conducting our final exam before the Christmas break. We will do well to send you such short clips as requested ASAP

Botchwey

 

---

From: lhewett <lhewett@columbus.k12.nc.us>
To: "i.botchwey";  "samuel.samwell"; "dokiboat"
Cc: "lhewett1@yahoo.com" <lhewett1@yahoo.com>; ebeck; "bdstrickland"
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 3:50 PM
Subject: FW: Ghanaian exchange

Hello to our Ghanaians friends at the Labone High School from your American friends at South Columbus High School. We are all doing well by God's grace and hope you all are also. Below you will find six projects that my Academically and Intellectually Gifted class have done in order to introduce our school to your students and staff. We hope you enjoy them. Two are videos filmed and edited on iPads and are being hosted on YouTube. Three are games in which your students will be asked questions about our school and they will try to guess the correct answer. Perhaps they will compete to see who gets the highest score. And finally we have one VoiceThread which is a narrated tour of our school. Please, by all means, make comments and have your students do the same. I want my students to actually hear a Ghanaian speak. They will love it. In order to make a comment, you must first register for a free account. We all are looking so forward to hearing from our new friends. We are anxiously awaiting a reply.

Larry Hewett

AIG Specialist/Instructional Technology Facilitator

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." ~Roger Lewin

 

---

From: Larry Hewett [lhewett1@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 10:17 AM
To: lhewett
Subject: Ghanaian exchange

 

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Larry Hewett <lhewett1@yahoo.com>
To: "ebeck" ; Kelly Jones ; Kathy Lewis ; kedwards
Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 6:08 PM
Subject:

 

Here are the URLs for a Voicethread, three games and two movie trailers created by AIG students from South Columbus that are to introduce our school to the high school students and faculty in Ghana.

https://voicethread.com/share/3789602/


 

This is the voicethread. Why not add a comment or two? If you are online via Columbus County Schools you'll probably have to click on the Show Content tab at the bottom of your screen before you can see it. If you can't let me know and I'll check it out. In order to make a comment you must have or create a free account.

 

When you get to these sites, just click on the game you want to play such as Word Shooter or Miner Maniac. The same questions are used for all the games in that URL.
 

http://www.classtools.net/widgets/quiz_31/SCHS_QUIZ_3_4xaVT.htm
 

http://www.classtools.net/mob/quiz_37/SCHS_QUIZ_2_ZMrQ4.htm

http://www.classtools.net/mob/quiz_92/SCHS_QUIZ_B8hax.htm

The two movie trailers can be found on YouTube at the following URLs:

http://youtu.be/TxdHSA6NQDk

 

http://youtu.be/_qKklRKPm-w

 

 

Both of these videos were filmed, edited and put together on iPads by students - not by me.

I can't tell you how proud I am of the kids that did these projects. They started work at 8:00 and before the end of second period it was all finished. Awesome! We definitely covered the four Cs of the Common Core and Technology of STEM as well. Looking forward to more wonderful things to come.

Larry

SCHS INTRODUCTORY VOICETHREAD

Some of my AIG students worked on a VoiceThread that was to be used as an introduction of SCHS to our partner school in Ghana.  Hopefully we will be hearing from some of the Ghanaian students as feedback to this VoiceThread.

SCHS COAT OF ARMS

This was the first time that I "pushed in" into a classroom as AIG specialist.  One of the English instructors, Ms. Smith, told me about how excited she was with the Coats of Arms that all the English IV students had created.  The thought came to me about doing a video in which the students showed their Coats of Arms.  I got three AIG students to do all the filming and some of the editing.  I think the final product was great.  See what you think.

ECHS' GREATEST GENERATION PROJECT

Last fall one of the Social Studies instructors at Each Columbus High School assigned a project called The Greatest Generation.  It pertained to WWII veterans.  Each student was paired with a war veteran and was to interview him and afterwards do a presentation for the whole class about what was learned during this interview.  One of the AIG students, Lillie, asked me to assist her with her presentation.  She wanted to video her interview with Mr. John St. George from Whiteville.  So after writing her questions, she, her mother and I met Mr. St. George at his apartment for the interview.  As Lillie asked the questions I filmed the entire interview.  Once all the filming was done, Lillie and I edited the interview and was imported into an iPad app called iMovie.  I think she did a wonderful job with her presentation.  What do you think?

THE SECRETS WITHIN WEST COLUMBUS

After talking with some of my AIG students at West Columbus High School about my new iPad app called iMovie, they decided to do a horror spoof called The Secrets Within West Columbus.  Take a look at it and see what you think.  I think they did an awesome job.  In fact, they did such a great job that they have decided to do a longer video with the same title and theme.

HIGH SCHOOL AIG PLAN

Back in November there was a countywide AIG meeting which consisted of the five AIG specialists and teachers, principals and parents who had volunteered to become members as well.  The meeting was held in the cafeteria of Hallsboro Artesia Elementary School.  Being the only high school specialists, I was asked to present my AIG plan to the newly formed committee.  Below is the video that I prepared.

SOUTH COLUMBUS' TWO MOVIE TRAILERS

South Columbus High School was matched with a high school in Ghana.  Some of my AIG students got my two iPads and started filming throughout the school.  One group filmed the faculty and staff.  Their movie trailer is below.  It's title is The Fabulous Faculty.





The ssecond group of students went out filming the school - inside and out.  They felt that this would give the Africal students a good idea as to how their school looked.  Once again, both of these videos were done using iMovie on my iPads.

WEST COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL MOVIE TRAILER

West Columbus was matched with a high school in Accra, Ghana in west Africa.  My AIG students decided to do a movie trailer introducing the African students to West Columbus.  This particular video was created by one student in just one period using a program called iMovie on an iPad.

ECHS FACULTY AND STAFF

Some of the AIG students at East Columbus High School created the following movie trailer about their faculty and staff.  It was created with iMovie on an iPad.  Awesome job you guys!!!!!

SCHS EXPERIMENTS WITH SCREENCAST-O-MATIC

I introduced my AIG students to Screencast-o-matic.com and its feature in which you can use the webcam.  They really enjoyed experimenting with it.  Below are two examples.