Happy 4th of July from the WCSD Mentoring Program. We’ve been playing with whiteboard animation. We hope you enjoy our fireworks and our patriotic singing.
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Yeah! School is 
out. Nothing to do but walk barefoot in the grass and dangle your feet off a small bridge over a small creek. Just watch out for trolls, and if you do meet one — keep your wits about you.
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School is almost out. We are looking forward to the Dixie sun.
Rodrigo and Becca’s Shadows movie reminds us how fun the sun can be!
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East elementary recreates a scene from Twilight with Edward, Bella, plenty of wolves and a cameo from Mentor RaeLynn?
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It’s spring, and it seems like everyone is getting swept up in March Madness or looking forward to the Boys of Summer, but Bennett and Donovan are looking back and reminiscing about football.
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Spring has sprung and with it the pesky animals in the wetlands. Join Jack Niye the Nature Guy as he takes us on a tour of the wetlands.
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What better way to celebrate Valentine’s day than with the love story of Jack and Sally and our very first podcast from Hurricane Elementary.
Happy Valentine’s Day
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January is National Mentoring Month. To celebrate, our students and mentors made a mentoring psa (public service announcement)
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The Holidays are over. It is time to get back to business — but not without one look back at the fun Christmas we had! Thanks everyone for the great Christmas Party and the wonderful Holiday Movies each school made. Let’s watch “A Very Napoleon Christmas” one more time for the road!
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Some teachers still have not broken the habit of teaching Native American studies only at Thanksgiving time. To help the teachers teaching Native Culture and the students studying Native Culture, the mentor crew has created the following podcast. It’s intent is to demonstrate that culture is not about what a group wears or what color of skin they have. It is about point-of-view.
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Esmeralda has an eye for beauty. Her award winning photography helps remind me of all that I am thankful for.
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PJ wrote a frighteningly epic poem. He and Trista turned that poem into a movie. (With the help of Elmo – the camera and Nemo- the computer)
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La Llorona
The ghost story La Llorona is a classic urban legend. Kassandra captures the sadness and ghostliness in her movie La Llorona Perfecta.
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School is back in session. After such an impressive summer, I can’t wait to see what our students will produce this year. We are currently recruiting for new students. And as always, we are looking for interested, committed volunteer mentors. I wanted to post one last summer story before we get busy working on our Red Ribbon Week campaigns and our PTA Reflections entries. Enjoy our cut paper animation of The Frog Prince.
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This week we went to the Washington County Fair. Our Media Literacy Lab students had over a dozen entries in the Fine Arts and Literary Arts competition. This week’s podcast is one of the winning entries.
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I hope you like the new design for the website. I have archived all the past podcasts and am reposting them.
The podcast for July was another Original Digi-tale. This one is animated using phot
oshop.
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June flew by us. One reason was that a few of the mentor coordinators and I spent a week at Snowbird Resort making our very first film, Sheep Go To Heaven.
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In May we challenged students to use what they knew in audio and visual technology to illustrate a sound poem. This is an example of what was created.
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In April we studied storytelling and the art of visual storytelling. Buffalo Wear Bellbottoms is the first of our original digitales.
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Media Literacy Lab