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
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
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From: Larry Hewett <lhewett1@yahoo.com>
To: "ebeck" ; Kelly Jones ; Kathy Lewis ; kedwards
Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 6:08 PM
Subject:
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.
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.
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.
The two movie trailers can be found on YouTube at the following URLs:
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
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