Kid's Talk Radio Olympic News

Let's get into the Olympic spirit.

Kid's Talk Radio is looking for student sports journalist. Bob Barboza is planning on going to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He will be in Beijing from August 7 through 24. How would you like to get direct news feed from the Olympics in Beijing?We need sports reporters and we are willing to train you and set you up with your own free Kid's Talk Radio and Teen TV Olympic Website. This is a fantastic summer project for future reporters. If you think you would want to get involved send me e-mail at Suprschool@aol.com.

In addition, we have our Great American Story Olympic Writing Contest. We have lots of great prizes, including the new Apple Phone. For more information visit the front page of PNN. You will see our logo at the top of the page.It contains all the details that you need to get started. www.PNN.com

After the Olympics our goal is to have one Kid's Talk Radio or Teen TV reporter in every school and in every afterschool program.

You can visit our websites at:

www.SuperSchoolSoftware.com

www.KidsTalkRadioLA.com

www.SuperSchoolUniversity.com

http://KidsTalkRadio.pnn.com

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Summertime Olympic Story Writing Contest

At Kid's Talk Radio we are always on the lookout for ways to keep our kids excited about learning. Here is a new project designed around the Olympics.

It is getting very close to 08/08/08. This is the official date of opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics. We need your Olympic Stories, memories, reflections, ideas, and anything that you think our readers would enjoy. Do you have a special story that you would like to share? We want to publish your stories for our readers in K-12 schools around the United States and the world. This service is free. Our only intent is to provide reading and writing projects for Special Olympic participants and K-12 general education students.

The summer time is a great time for reading and writing. The Kid's Talk Radio Team wants you keep your literacy skills sharp over the summer. If you have a story we want you to send it to Kid's Talk Radio and PNN News. With your permission we will share your story with the world. If you have a special photo, video clip, or voice clip that you can share with us, we can put it to good use.

Something to think about

What happens when a student with special needs is gifted?



We include information about gifted learners, who also have special needs that are not always acknowledged or met. You will find interesting and informative articles by specialists, stories of parents and teachers who have found successful ways of dealing with their children's needs, state and federal guidelines, links to related sites, and many other useful resources. We add new materials to this area regularly and are always anxious to be responsive to your needs and interests.  Our high motivational learning programs include:

 Kid's Talk Radio

Jr. Business School

Jr. Medical School

Questions and suggestions may be sent to us at Super School University: E-mail: Suprschool@aol.com

At Super School University we are working hard a coming up with answers and curriculum solutions to the following questions:           

1...What do you do with the child that has so many ideas that he cannot put them down on paper?

2....How can you encourage students to enjoy playing with ideas?

3....How can you help students to go beyond textbooks and classroom walls?

4...How can you provide a safe learning environment, which is open and accepting of unusual ideas and feelings?

5...How can you provide students with opportunities to learn by discovery, manipulating, experimenting, questioning, exploring and risk-taking?

6...How can you help students to do a better job at listening, speaking, reading, writing, and computing?

                         

For the past ten years we have included students with learning disabilities into our high motivational learning programs at Kid's Talk Radio and Jr. Business School.  We designed special program that allowed some students to benefit from our Jr. Medical School science programs.  Do you know of any students that could benefit from some of our programs?

Contact:

Bob Barboza

Kid's Talk Radio

Suprschool@aol.com        

                 

Special Olympic News

We want to publish your Olympic Stories.


Kid's Talk Radio was at California State University, Long Beach to cover the Special Olympics. We are searching for special stories that we can publish on PNN News and Kid's Talk Radio. Please contact us with your stories. We have created a new summer Olympic writing project. We have prizes for stories. We want your Olympic stories.

1. Do you know someone that was in the Olympics?
2. Do you know of an Olympic story that we could publish?
3. Do you know someone that attended an Olympic games?
4. What are your Olympic thoughts?
5. What kind of Olympic story would you like to see published?
6. Do you have any Special Olympic stories we should know about?



The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities*, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities*, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

Journalist in a Box Notes

Kid's Talk Radio
Getting Kids Excited About Learning
A Program by Bob Barboza, SuperSchool University

Kid's Talk Radio is a creative high motivational learning program that helps students to listen, speak, read, write, and compute. Our program is designed for students in grades 4 through 8. Kid's Talk Radio was designed for special needs and gifted and talented students. The program is currently being expanded to include bilingual and at-risk students in grades 9 through 12.

Teachers and students are provided with a Kid's Talk Radio Station Manager's Kits. This kit is now called "Journalist in a Box". Each kit has all the tools you need to train radio reporters, student researchers, sound effects engineers, hardware specialist, hardware specialist, DJ's and station managers.

Kid's Talk Radio provides a wonderful opportunity to integrate singing, playing musical instruments, and using the human voice as a sound effects machine. We created a student sound effects choir and are teaching our students about how sound effects were made during the golden days of old time radio.

To insure that students produce quality work suitable for radio broadcasting, they must complete a training course to help them to perform at a Kid's Talk Radio oral reading and writing rubric level of five or six. Students have individual learning plans and they produce Podcast and Kid's Talk Radio Z Casts for the Internet, iPods and school Intranet radio stations.

Students are trained to build custom radio station databases for instant web publishing and radio station job simulation projects. Teachers and students use "Database Projects for Kids" and FileMaker Pro for Kid's Talk Radio learning projects.

Our students have various learning styles. We use  BrainCogs an the Journalist in a Box programs to help meet the unique needs of our students. BrainCogs helps our students to develop personalized strategies that help them to work more productively sticking to tight deadlines. Students have to study hard to complete their writing and oral reading assignments. BrainCogs helps the Kid's Talk Radio News Teams to organize information, remembering reading passages, prioritizing news information, shifting attention skills, and checking their news broadcasts before turning in their work.

To help our students with the difficult job of writing for Kid's Talk Radio, we use Essay Express along with "Journalist in a Box". This program works along the side our schools writing program, the Kid's Talk Radio Graphic Organizers, and Writer's Workshop. Essay Express does a good job getting our students ready to write the short essays that are needed for the Kid's Talk Radio Broadcasts in science, social studies, mathematics, sports news, local news, and world current events. Essay Express provides between 4 to 6 hours of useful self-paced instruction. The programs high motivational design increases student's time on task and more importantly students stick with the program. This allows Kid's Talk Radio teachers to work with other students that need valuable teacher time for story editing. FableVision's research-based and instructionally sound learning solutions help the Kid's Talk Radio teachers to reach out to more students. There products are like having an extra teacher in a box that you can use to individualize instruction.

A Kid's Talk Radio school tour is scheduled for September, 2007. Barboza will be visiting schools demonstrating how to build radio stations, sound effects labs and teaching students and teachers how to create special Podcasts and Z Casts Kid's Talk Radio. For more information on how to get involved, contact Bob Barboza at suprschool@aol.com, or visit www.kidstalkradiola.com, http://kidstalkradiostory.pnn.com.

Bob Barboza is an educator, technology evangelist, composer and software designer. He has over thirty years experience teaching students with special needs and gifted and talented students, as well as writing white papers on his findings (BrainCogs Action Research Project, 2005). Barboza is the author of Kid's Talk Radio, Jr. Business School, Jr. Law School, and Jr. Medical School. He presents information about high motivational learning programs that integrate technology and good first teaching at local and national technology and learning conferences for Super School University and the FileMaker Corporation.