Youth Radio

Follow Your Dreams …

youthradio — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:24:27 +0000

Here are some more dreams from students in Australia:

Dreaming the Future

youthradio — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:31:14 +0000

Students at the Norris School in Massachusetts worked on a short video project at the start of the school year called Dream Scenes, in which they imagined something they hope will happen in their future and how they can attain it.

Having trouble with the flash player for this video podcast? You can download the movie file here.

Many Voices for Darfur Project

youthradio — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:02:01 +0000

Our class was part of the Many Voices for Darfur Project, which brought together young people from around the world to press for peace and the end of genocide for the Darfur region of the Sudan in Africa. This was an amazing project. We wrote persuasive paragraphs about how to help the people of Darfur and then some of our students recorded their pieces for a podcast.

Take a listen to our views on the Darfur crisis

Do you think young people should have a voice when it comes to advocating peace in the world?

Live from the Megaconference Jr.

youthradio — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:16:37 +0000

The 2008 Megaconference Jr has started. We’ll be presenting the Youth Radio project live from Butler Elementary School at around 2:00 pst. We hope lots of our YR community can view us at the Megaconference Jr site. We’ll keep updating you on events. Please jump in with comments. We’ll keep blogging the event throughout the day.

More Words from the World

youthradio — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:24:55 +0000

Australian sixth-graders enjoyed the creation of new words so much that they began to invent their own to add to our Youth Radio list (see words from Germany and Massachusetts, USA, down below).

Here are their words and here are their voices:

Greenage: a green colour

Tracli : animals that climb or live in trees

Bool : boring, but cool

Delimbia: an unknown planet

Annoyzgonzola : someone who is annoying but you don’t know how to tell them

Hockle doodle doo: a really bad dancer

Cakeacola : cake with coke in it, or coke with cake in it

Hogglewoggle: a pig in a blanket

Abbracigiggles: someone on a bike who wears braces but instead of tyres they are pogo sticks

Chesstick: a person who loves chess

Mummarola: mum turning the TV off on your favourite part

We hope you enjoyed the words!

– Youth Radio

Youth Radio Project To Be Heard Around the World

youthradio — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:25:39 +0000

Hello Youth Radio Community,

This Thursday, February 21, Mr. Faires’s class at Butler Elementary will be taking the Youth Radio project to a worldwide audience! Somewhere around 2:00 pst, we will be using a videoconferencing camera to connect to the Megaconference Jr., an international interactive videoconference by and for students. Click here to read more about the event.

What would you like us to tell the world about the Youth Radio project? Please let us know. Better yet, visit the Megaconference site on Thursday and watch our presentation. We’ll have a couple of students monitoring the Youth Radio blog throughout the day and during the presentation, so if you have questions or ideas you want to share, be sure to post a comment.

Butler Elementary School Introduction

youthradio — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:52:09 +0000

Hi. Here’s the first podcast from Butler Elementary in California. We wanted to share our hopes for the new year.

Please join us and let us know what you would like see happen in 2008.

To listen to our introductions, click here. Or listen here

Invented Words from Spain

youthradio — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:31:41 +0000

Our friends in Spain enjoyed the invented words from Massachusetts so much they decided to invent their own. Take a listen.

Zuny – a printer that does not work

Nert – an out in baseball when you do it with three foul balls

Malawool – a law that has to do with wool

Sapatum – when somebody is so excited about what they are doing and they start to go crazy and break things. My friend had a sapatum when we were playing our first soccer game in our team.

Panoranoia – a panoranmic paranoia. In the classroom there was panoranoia.

Emoke – see something that no one saw before

Mowan – an extremely crazy person

Mowanotang – a cross between a mowan (see above) and an orangutan. You are a mowan/mowanotang

How about you? What words can you invent?

What Words Would You Invent?

youthradio — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:24:05 +0000

Here at the Norris School in Massachusetts, we have been studying the origins of the English Language and as part of our study, we created some new words that we would like to see in the dictionary. This was done as part of a wiki and a podcast project.

Would you like to hear our words? Take a listen.

And here are our written words:

Antibiblious — Against books.
Bidana – a pink fruit with blue and magenta stripes.
Blizzle – Lots of homework.
Cloony: The act of being a kook. Not knowing anything.
Cowcalama: Loving cows more than anything in the whole wide world.
Fugiggling — The act of laughing for no reason.
Healcar- A type of medicine.
Herveing — To run really fast and trip and get hurt
Ronnoco- [noun] People that dislike Barry Bonds.
Slcunk: Something that smells.
Skuzzbombs: The act of expressing anger in a humourous way without swearing.
Snackdidle- A food that you can eat a lot of
Tigwig — A poisonous blue beetle.
Unartle- Someone who does not do art.
Xly – A dish of pancakes, eggs, waffles, and lobster.
Zwig- An orange ostrich, wearing a pink tutu and eating a frozen mash potato TV dinner.

Now that you have heard and read our words, what words might you invent? Share them here through the comment feature on this post.

– The Norris School Sixth Grade Class

Personal Narratives from New Jersey

youthradio — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:43:18 +0000

Students from Robbinsville, New Jersey started the school year retelling memorable moments in their lives. After several lessons on writing craft, the students wrote personal narratives using imagery, dialogue, and thoughts/emotions. The students have worked hard writing and revising; let us know what you think!

To listen to our podcast, click below:

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Thanks for listening. What is one important moment from your life? You can use the comment link here to leave feedback for the New Jersey students or to tell your own story.