Browsing Archive: March, 2014
Posted by Antonia on Friday, March 28, 2014,
Cardaine working on his storyboard.
This week – the Advanced YAN class perfected their
storyboards. They were reminded to act as the writer, director and producer of
their film meaning they had to organize every single little thing.
Every film will consist of three parts: 1) an introduction;
2) a body (usually an interview with an expert) and lastly; 3) a conclusion.
Once these three parts are filmed the students can start editing the videos
using a program called “Windows Movie...
Posted by Antonia on Monday, March 24, 2014,
Thursday’s
Advanced YAN class was really productive -- they all should be filming for
their videos this week and next week!!
On the down side, we may have lost 2
students (Shemilove and Deril) who have not showed up for a couple of weeks and
who did not show up again today. But on the up side, all of the students who
were present had their homework finished!! One by one I reviewed their
storyboard and corrected their letters requesting an interview. Everything
looked great. Students worked...
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Posted by Antonia on Saturday, March 22, 2014,
Club classes for this week
went really well and our students are right on track!!
Both classes on Wednesday
(Lycee Molyko and Buea Town) had 14 students attending. At first, things were a
bit hectic and crazy… but that’s how it usually is. There had been no power again throughout Molyko and when I arrived early to set up
for class the doors to my surprise were locked! I called and called both
teachers whom I knew had keys – no one was available. I found another computer
teacher who ...
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Posted by Antonia on Tuesday, March 18, 2014,
This week I am announcing the winners of the International Women's Day Essay Contest for Lycce Molyko. There was no power the day of the original lesson plan therefore we had to hold two make up classes in order to give everyone a change to hand in the essay. Prizes given included a variety of school supplies.
Check out some of the videos we watched HERE!
School: Bilingual Grammar School - Lycee MolykoWinner: Muluh Victory
Class: Lower 6
Chosen Essay Questions:
1. What is gender quality and ho...
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Posted by Antonia on Monday, March 17, 2014,
On Wednesday the Biligual
Grammar School in Molyko welcomed Britt Lake from GlobalGiving!! GlobalGiving
is a US based organization that functions as an online marketplace that
connects donors with grassroots projects in the developing world. Check out
YAN’s GlobalGiving page
HERE!!
Britt was welcomed by 8
smiling faces ready for the days lesson on videography. I had written some critical thinking questions on
the board relating to the Poverty Video we were watching from last year’s YA...
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Posted by Antonia on Thursday, March 13, 2014,
Happy International Women’s Day!!
Last week I held two make up
classes for the International Women’s Day lesson. Early Friday morning I met up
with Walters (the YAN in country ‘go to’ guy) who helped me take photos and
hold prizes at the GHS Buea Town general assembly.
For the essay contest we had
three students tied for 2nd place: Ekah Judith, Malange Clinton and Kfu Patience (pictured above) and one 1st place, Yatuh Ketline (pictured below). Prizes comprised of a
variety of...
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Posted by Antonia on Sunday, March 9, 2014,
All of the classes this week had to do with PODCASTS!!! What is a podcast you ask…
The Advanced YAN had
recorded and made their own in last years YAN Club so this year it was a piece
of cake for them. Last week I had assigned the homework for creating their
podcasts and on Tuesday we practiced, improved and recorded 4 out of 6 groups’
podcasts.
We first did peer review:
each group exchanged with other groups who would read their script and look for
errors to correct; just simple t...
Posted by Antonia on Saturday, March 1, 2014,
Next Saturday, March 8th
is International Women’s Day and this week I created and fun and interactive
curriculum focusing on this day.
I found a
great series called “Why Women Count” which is 41 five minute short films about women all over
the world. Each of the five films has struggles of women from around the world,
how they overcame these struggles and how they are helping others – there are
many forms of advocacy shown in each video which I am hoping the students will
p...
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