Kid's Talk Radio wants to interview Matt Gonzalez.

Kid’s Talk Radio will give all of the candidates equal time to get their voices heard.


Addressing an auditorium filled with many students expressing support for another candidate, Matt Gonzalez, running mate of presidential hopeful Ralph Nader, spoke yesterday about reasons not to vote for Barack Obama.

Gonzalez, who was announced in February as Nader's vice presidential choice on the independent ticket, spent most of his time speaking to the Political Science 179 class about what he called Obama's "troubling" voting record.

"I'm picking on Senator Obama ... because your professor told me this is a pretty strong Obama crowd," Gonzalez said. "It says something about a candidate that can stand in front of you and repeatedly say, 'I can change the culture of Washington, (D.C.)' ... without giving you an accounting of what is going on here. What are these votes about?"

Gonzalez was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2000, which he served on as a member and later a president until 2005, helping deal with a budget that is larger than that of some states.

In 2003, he came within a close margin when he ran against Gavin Newsom for mayor of San Francisco.

Students posed questions about Gonzalez' position concerning nuclear weapons, the war in Iraq and his work advocating instant runoff voting, a system that allows voters to rank the candidates of their choice.

"One of the reasons I ran with Nader was because I knew that I would be talking about election reform and I have a history of actually instituting that kind of reform," he said.

Many who attended the class said they thought it was interesting for Gonzalez to specifically target his remarks at a mostly pro-Obama audience.

"I enjoyed learning about his standpoint and his views, but I would like to research a bit more before I decide whether or not I agree with them," said freshman Katherine Hasnain.

Gonzalez said he encouraged his audience to reflect on what they know about the candidates before they give them their vote.
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"I respect your right to not vote for Ralph Nader, but I hope that some of my remarks today would ... force you to ask some hard questions that maybe you weren't aware of and maybe to do further inquiry."

Kid's Talk Radio will be spending the next few weeks finding out who Matt Gonzalez is.

Kid's Talk Radio has questions for Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton gets people excited about getting involved in our country.

A message to Bill Clinton from Kid’s Talk Radio
You are a fantastic speaker and you need to use your words to help America around the world.  Kid’s Talk Radio has some important questions for you.

1.    What can you do to help Obama and the rest of our elected officials?
2.    What do we need to do to solve our health care problem?
3.    What should we do about our oil problem?
4.    What can you an Hillary do right now to help Obama?
5.    What will you do next?
6.    What kind of a kid were you in high school?
7.    What job would you like to have right now?
8.    How is your health?
9.    What will you do to help our schools?
10.    What is next for your family?

Who is Ralph Nader ? Kid's Talk Radio wants to know.

Let's hear from the third party.

Ralph Nader is a very interesting person.  He has done a great deal to help our county.  Why are people so afraid of him?  He seems to be telling the truth.  Why don’t we give him a chance to speak and tell his story?  Kid’s Talk Radio will investigate Ralph Nader and we will let you know what we discover.  Kid’s Talk Radio wants to give Ralph Nader a chance to tell his side of the  story.

1.    Why is mainstream media avoiding Ralph Nader?
2.    What do you stand for?
3.    What would you do as our president?
4.    Can you give us an update on how you are doing?
5.    Why won’t anyone debate you?
6.    What do we need to do to fix our schools?
7.    What do you think of Joe Biden?
8.    What is your position on school reform?
9.    What do we have to do to keep jobs in our country?
10.    What would you do about the war?

Kid's Talk Radio wants to talk to Hillary Clinton.

The kids in our group were touched when we looked around and saw people crying.  It showed that Hillary Clinton has moved a lot of people.  This is a very emotional convention.  The following questions are on kid’s minds

1. What can you do to play a role in helping American mover forward?
2. Why did Barak Obama not choose you?
3. Can you still help America with our health care problems?
4. What can do to help the Democratic Party?
5. Will you have the energy to run for President again?
6. What will you do for the rest of this year?
7. Why was the press so hard on you?
8. What can you do to help our school?
9. What role would you like to play in the Democratic Party?
10. Can you find away for you and Bill to help our country?

Kids want to talk to John Mc Cain.

First of all, John Mc Cain has an amazing story.  He spent a great deal of time living under the worst conditions in the world and then when given a chance to go home he stay and  opted to stay in a concentration camp.  Now that is what I call the real deal.  We just got word that Mc Cain has made up his mind about his vice president.  We are all waiting for the official announcement.

Kid’s Talk Radio Questions for John Mc Cain:

1.  What will it take for you to win the vote and become our president?

2.  What will you do to help our schools?

3.  What can you do to get our country going in the right direction?

4.  Is it true that you will keep things going the same?

5.  Who in your organization is willing to talk to kids?

6.  What were you like as a high school kid?

7.  Can you help us keep our home?

8.  What will you do for kids?

9.  Will you ever have a draft?

10. What do you think about the Clintons?

Kids need to talk to Joe Biden

 Kid's Talk Radio will be following Joe Biden all the way to the election.  We are going to read as much as possible about him.  We are going to look into his voting record and what he has done to earn the trust of the American people.  They say that he is an expert in the area of foreign affairs.  Well, Kid's Talk Radio is going to find out.

1. What is the Second Chance Act and why did you vote for it?

2. What are your plans for Iraq?

3. What is your COPS Bill and why did you vote for it?

4. What were you like in high school?

5. What spots did you play in high school?

If you get elected what will you did to help our country.  

6. What is your military record?

7. How best can you help America do a better job working with people around the world.

8. Why were you choosen by Barak Obama?

9. What will you do for kids in America?

10. How will you make our country a better place?

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.