Podcast Central
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Podcast Description
This collection of podcasts is produced by the students, teachers, and administration of Mabry Middle School to enhance communication among all of the stakeholders in our school community. We hope you enjoy keeping up with our school.
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| 1 | VideoThe Pythagorean Award at Mabry (VP) | Dr. Tyson began the Pythagorean Award at Mabry during the 2002 - 2003 school year to recognize the highest math achievement at our school. The trophy itself, pictured to the left, is an original work commissioned by the renowned Hans Gobo Fräbel studios. The giant "greater than" mathematical symbol reads, "Math Achievement: We're greater than!" and holds the name of each year's winner. Our math students in 8th grade are invited to come to school early to take a very difficult math test. The top three winning students then compete in front of their entire 8th grade class solving math problems based on time and accuracy. The winning student receives a Pythagorean Award Plaque and this highest math honor at Mabry. The three bright young finalists in the 2007 competition: Emily, Eli, and Conrad. The winner of the 2007 Pythagorean Award is Conrad. Congratulations! | 5/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoKid Capacity: Podcast with Mica (VP) | Earlier in the year I was delighted when Mica's parents shared with me that she was selected to be a Page for State Senator Chip Rogers! In this podcast Mica and I talk about this experience, how she was selected, what her goals and aspirations are, and what this experience meant to her. You will not want to miss getting to know this wonderful Mabry student who has a very bright future ahead of her! | 5/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoCelebrating Our Professionals of the Year (VP) | Three years ago Cobb County School District began an annual recognition program for the Professional of the Year in which each school staff elected a staff member in a non-certified position for special recognition. We wanted to do something special for these three employees, elected over the last three years, to honor their service to our school. Therefore, we created this podcast to highlight their contributions to Mabry Middle School. You may watch the podcast in your browser by simply clicking on this link. | 5/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoDr. Tyson Announces New Beginnings (VP) | In this podcast Dr. Tyson celebrates some of the many achievements of the students, parents, and staff at Mabry Middle School over the past 6 years. He announces the new principal that will begin working at Mabry on July 1st. | 5/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Video2007 Best Teaching & Learning (VP) | Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the 6th Annual Mabry Film Festival. We begin our evening extravaganza with students from the Mabry Orchestra performing Celtic Fiddle Tune. Please welcome our Celtic Fiddlers! Orchestra performs: “Celtic Fiddle Tune” In May of 2001 Mabry Middle School held our first Film Festival. We did something really new: All of our movies were produced on the computer. At that time we did not realize that this simple idea, to have students and teachers use more technology in class, would lead Mabry Middle School to set the standard for technology innovation in public schools. As a result of this plan, last year Mabry was awarded Scholastic and Intel Corporation’s prestigious School of Distinction Award for Technology Innovation, an award that brought over a quarter million dollars worth of technology to our school. Amazingly, by leveraging connectivity through the iTunes store and MabryOnline.org’s Podcast Central, our students’ and teachers’ work has been seen all over the world. Our website has served up over 300 gigabytes of data to users the world over. And this figure does not include a single digital media file! We have actually received emails from every continent on earth. And hundreds of visitors from all over the United States as well as the United Kingdom, the Republic of Georgia (the former Soviet Union), and Australia have come to Mabry to see how we accomplish the amazing work we do with digital media. Tonight we have the privilege and the pleasure to present to you the 6th Annual Mabry Middle School Film Festival. Tonight we celebrate our theme: “Making Our World a Better Place.” Best Teaching & Learning Our first category for the evening is Best Teaching and Learning. The objective for these movies was to create a movie that would be the best representation of curricular significance. The nominees are: • Clase de Español • Immigration Past and Present • Who Is An American • Who Lives and Who Dies | 4/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video2007 Best Documentary (VP) | I am not sure that people realize what a distinguished panel of judges we have used over the years, people who work in the communications and media industry in television, cable, and film, as well as people in technology, education, and even the state department of education. During the judging this year, one of the judges asked “How do your students and teachers do it? They just get better and better when I think they can’t get any better!” The movies in our next category, the Documentary, were to strive to be the best presentation of political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner. The nominees for Best Documentary are: • Adoption • Frankengenes • Is It You? • Living Hope • Nothing But Nets • Through Technology 6th Graders Can Change the World | 4/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Video2007 Best Sound (VP) | This next category is absolutely the most difficult one for our students to master. The sound in a movie shapes the whole emotional tone of the movie’s content. The sound can make a great idea even more powerful. But while it is so powerful, it is very hard to get clean sound without a lot of noise. The nominees in this category did an excellent job of using sound, sound levels, and sound elements (music choice, sound effects, voiceover, dialogue and mixing) to powerfully convey the message of the movie. The nominees for Best Sound are: • Decisions • Frankengenes • Girls Got Game • Immigration Past and Present • Music Our Bond • Nothing But Nets • Who Lives and Who Dies | 4/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Video2007 Best Editing (VP) | The movie-makers in the Best Editing category did an excellent job of putting together all of the elements of the movie to create the finished product. They accomplished the difficult task of making it all come together in a way that goes beyond just making sense to telling a compelling story. Many times this includes adding still pictures, special sound editing, special effects, titles and transitions in addition to importing their footage. Editing on the computer requires skill and patience. And the nominees are: • Do You Have Religious Freedom • Frankengenes • Girls Got Game • Music Our Bond • Nothing But Nets • Who Lives and Who Dies | 4/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Video2007 Best Screenplay (VP) | The screenplay is the story. Each movie has no more than 2 minutes to make a compelling point. If you don’t think writing a short screenplay is difficult, you just haven’t tried it before. The screenplay has to sell the concept, the one main point of the movie, to the audience. It requires extensive research, writing, editing, rewriting, and group collaboration. The nominees for Best Screenplay are: • Adoption • Immigration Past and Present • Frankengenes • Nothing But Nets • Through Technology 6th Graders Can Change the World • Who Lives and Who Dies | 4/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Video2007 Best Cinematography (VP) | The movie-makers in the Best Cinematography category did an excellent job with the overall visual impact of their film: lighting, composition and camera angles, photography, and framing. They did an exceptional job of making sure that the visual information in their movie told their story well. This year, Dr. Tyson challenged us to shoot our own footage and not rely so much on still images found on the internet. Perhaps as a result, more than any previous year, more of our movies include some really great footage that was actually shot by our students. Some movies even incorporated footage from the operating room at Emory University and footage shot in South America specifically for their movie. Our students used interesting visuals, camera angles, and made their footage look very professional. And the nominees are: • Communication with Technology • Decisions • Do You Have Religious Freedom • Frankengenes • Music Our Common Bond • Through Technology 6th Graders Can Change the World | 4/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Video2007 Best Picture Category (VP) | iPod Awards The iPod is such a powerful media player device. I love mine! I love listening to all of my music on it. But when Apple announced the video iPod, it got even more outrageously cool! Dr. Tyson will place all of the movies in each category of the Film Festival on our website in Podcast Central. That means, that in the next few days, anyone in the world will be able to download the movies you have seen tonight from the iTunes Store or from MabryOnline’s Podcast Central! To think that every movie seen tonight will be in global distribution–that’s just amazing! Anyone, anywhere in the world can watch our movies on their computer and can even download them onto their video iPods. NAM: So tomorrow morning someone riding on the Tube in London might be watching our movies! That’s just way cool! And because of the generosity of Apple Incorporated, who is donating 3, 80 gigabyte video iPods to Mabry Middle School, three Mabry students are about to win a state of the art video iPod. So they will be able to download all of our movies, including their own, onto their new video iPod! The judges selected three movies they thought should receive the iPods. The students on each team then selected which student would win the iPod if their movie was selected by the judges. Best Picture Category The most coveted category award is winning the Best Picture Category. The criteria for this category is to combine all of the elements of the movie to bring a powerful emotional impact that convincingly conveys a significant message, leaving a lasting impression. But before we announce the winner for the Best Picture category, we will not only watch each of the movies that have been nominated for this coveted category, we will hear some very brief comments from each team about the movie they made. You will hear that each team of students gives great thought and care to the product they produce. They sincerely want to make our world a better place. Final Award And we have one final award made possible by the generous sponsorship of a very prestigious organization. The International Society for Technology in Education, commonly referred to as ISTE, hosts an annual international technology conference attended by over 20,000 educators from around the world. That conference, the National Educational Computing Conference, is actually being held here in Atlanta this summer, and the closing keynote presentation will be Dr. Tyson and selected Mabry students talking about this very film festival you are attending tonight. That’s an incredible honor that recognizes our students’ exemplary work. Leslie Connery, Deputy CEO and Conference Chair for ISTE has called our film festival “a national treasure” and wants educators the world over to know about it. ISTE has therefore chosen to be one of our Mabry Movie Academy sponsors and has donated an Apple MacBook and a Mini Digital Video Camera to be awarded to a single student tonight. Conclusion The Mabry Film Festival is an incredible event that has earned our school prestigious international recognition. We hope that our movies tonight have challenged you to make our world a better place. It sounds like such a difficult thing to do. But it’s really fairly easy. Simply be nice to the people around you. Help others. Go that extra step to attain your personal best. Several of our movie teams wish to solicit donations from you tonight, including your bodies organs! We encourage you to stop by their tables, or take their fliers, as you leave and consider how you can help them attain their goal to make our world a better place. It has been our pleasure to be your hosts this evening. Thank you for coming, and goodnight. | 4/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Tyson Talks with Jeff Dess | I recently became aware of a new energy drink called Cocaine when several of our students told us that they drank 5 of them in one sitting! They became very ill. I then began to investigate these drinks and was rather shocked by what I learned. I encourage our parents and students to listen carefully to this brief interview with Mr. Dess. Not only is what he says eye opening, I suspect it is also widely unknown. | 3/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoJekyll Island Podcast: The Marsh (VP) | Our 7th grade students spent last week on a science expedition on Jekyll Island, exploring the marine habit and ecosystems. Not only did they have a tremendous amount of fun, but they attended classes in the field, studying: * The Slouth * The Maritime Forest * The Beach * The Marsh * The Dock * Herpetology * Endangered Species The depth of understanding acquired by our students by seeing, feeling, and holding first hand is difficult to match. Be sure to visit the Jekyll Island, 2007 blog at the Mabry Global Learning Collaborative. You will find hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the students in their classes. While on the island, student created short video podcasts of their experiences. This podcast highlights the marsh. You can download it to your computer (for your video iPod). | 3/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoJekyll Island Podcast: The Beach (VP) | Our 7th grade students spent last week on a science expedition on Jekyll Island, exploring the marine habit and ecosystems. Not only did they have a tremendous amount of fun, but they attended classes in the field, studying: * The Slouth * The Maritime Forest * The Beach * The Marsh * The Dock * Herpetology * Endangered Species The depth of understanding acquired by our students by seeing, feeling, and holding first hand is difficult to match. Be sure to visit the Jekyll Island, 2007 blog at the Mabry Global Learning Collaborative. You will find hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the students in their classes. While on the island, student created short video podcasts of their experiences. This podcast highlights the beach. You can download it to your computer (for your video iPod). | 3/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoJekyll Island Podcast: Maritime Forest and Boneyard Beach (VP) | Our 7th grade students spent last week on a science expedition on Jekyll Island, exploring the marine habit and ecosystems. Not only did they have a tremendous amount of fun, but they attended classes in the field, studying: * The Slouth * The Maritime Forest * The Beach * The Marsh * The Dock * Herpetology * Endangered Species The depth of understanding acquired by our students by seeing, feeling, and holding first hand is difficult to match. Be sure to visit the Jekyll Island, 2007 blog at the Mabry Global Learning Collaborative. You will find hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the students in their classes. While on the island, student created short video podcasts of their experiences. This podcast highlights the maritime forest, also known as Boneyard Beach. You can download it to your computer (for your video iPod). | 3/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoMabry Orchestra in the News (VP) | The Mabry Middle and Lassiter High School Orchestras recently had the opportunity to perform with the internationally-renowned Barrage! This multi-talented string ensemble performs an eclectic repertoire (music, song, and dance) of high-octane, energy-fueled music from varied genre, including jazz, folk, and contemporary world music designed to inspire string students the world over to practice and enjoy stringed music on steroids. 11Alive featured a news story on the Barrage performance and their joint performance with our students. 11Alive graciously granted permission for us to post two podcasts on our website: their news story about the event, and our students' performance with Barrage! Enjoy! | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoMabry Orchestra Performs with Barrage! (VP) | The Mabry Middle and Lassiter High School Orchestras recently had the opportunity to perform with the internationally-renowned Barrage! This multi-talented string ensemble performs an eclectic repertoire (music, song, and dance) of high-octane, energy-fueled music from varied genre, including jazz, folk, and contemporary world music designed to inspire string students the world over to practice and enjoy stringed music on steroids. 11Alive featured a news story on the Barrage performance and their joint performance with our students. 11Alive graciously granted permission for us to post two podcasts on our website: their news story about the event, and our students' performance with Barrage! Enjoy! | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoJekyll Island Podcast: The Slough (VP) | Our 7th grade students spent last week on a science expedition on Jekyll Island, exploring the marine habit and ecosystems. Not only did they have a tremendous amount of fun, but they attended classes in the field, studying: * The Slouth * The Maritime Forest * The Beach * The Marsh * The Dock * Herpetology * Endangered Species The depth of understanding acquired by our students by seeing, feeling, and holding first hand is difficult to match. Be sure to visit the Jekyll Island, 2007 blog at the Mabry Global Learning Collaborative. You will find hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the students in their classes. While on the island, student created short video podcasts of their experiences. This first podcast highlights the slough. You can download it to your computer (for your video iPod). | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoJekyll Island Podcast: Dock Studies (VP) | Our 7th grade students spent last week on a science expedition on Jekyll Island, exploring the marine habit and ecosystems. Not only did they have a tremendous amount of fun, but they attended classes in the field, studying: * The Slouth * The Maritime Forest * The Beach * The Marsh * The Dock * Herpetology * Endangered Species The depth of understanding acquired by our students by seeing, feeling, and holding first hand is difficult to match. Be sure to visit the Jekyll Island, 2007 blog at the Mabry Global Learning Collaborative. You will find hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the students in their classes. While on the island, student created short video podcasts of their experiences. This podcast highlights dock studies. You can download it to your computer (for your video iPod). | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoJekyll Island Podcast: Reptiles and Amphibians (VP) | Our 7th grade students spent last week on a science expedition on Jekyll Island, exploring the marine habit and ecosystems. Not only did they have a tremendous amount of fun, but they attended classes in the field, studying: * The Slouth * The Maritime Forest * The Beach * The Marsh * The Dock * Herpetology * Endangered Species The depth of understanding acquired by our students by seeing, feeling, and holding first hand is difficult to match. Be sure to visit the Jekyll Island, 2007 blog at the Mabry Global Learning Collaborative. You will find hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the students in their classes. While on the island, student created short video podcasts of their experiences. This podcast highlights reptiles and amphibians. You can download it to your computer (for your video iPod). | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mabry Band Audtions with Among the Clouds | The Mabry Middle School Band was invited to audition for The Midwest Clinic, an international band and orchestra conference which is certainly one of the most prestigious school music honors in the United States. Performance at the conference is by invitation only. Our band students and teachers work very hard and are among the very best middle school bands in the country. Congratulations to them for earning this distinguished honor. This first podcasts from their recent recording session is a recording of their performance of Among the Clouds. These podcasts are among the recordings included in their audition package. To listen to each podcast in your browser, simply click on each link. Congratulations students and teachers. We are very proud of you! | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mabry Band Auditions with Miss Liberty | The Mabry Middle School Band was invited to audition for The Midwest Clinic, an international band and orchestra conference which is certainly one of the most prestigious school music honors in the United States. Performance at the conference is by invitation only. Our band students and teachers work very hard and are among the very best middle school bands in the country. Congratulations to them for earning this distinguished honor. This second podcast from their recent recording session is a recording of their performance of Miss Liberty. These podcasts are among the recordings included in their audition package. To listen to each podcast in your browser, simply click on each link. Congratulations students and teachers. We are very proud of you! | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoTechnology Celebration K-5 (VP) | Recently I visited one of our feeder elementary schools, Davis Elementary, who was just named a Georgia School of Excellence. I was delighted to have the opportunity to be on their campus as this exciting honor was announced to their students, staff, and community. While on the campus, I was incredibly impressed with the level of technology integration in their curriculum--even in the kindergarten classes! I asked Davis' principal, Mrs. Brink, if I could return with a middle school film crew to create a podcast of the amazing work these teachers and children are doing as they prepare for Mabry Middle School. This podcast is the product of that visit. Special thanks to Rebecca, Grant, and Chandler, the three Mabry students who filmed and edited this project. | 2/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoState Superintendent & Guests Visit Mabry (VP) | On February 1, 2007, Mabry Middle School was honored to welcome our State Superintendent of Schools, Cathy Cox, with guests from the British Council, including the Director of Bilateral Programmes, Rosalind Morton, as well members of the Georgia State Department of Education. Cobb County School District Superintended, Fred Sanderson, and Area 4 Assistant Superintendent, Lynda Martin, also joined us for a presentation of ways Mabry Middle School leverages meaningfulness and significance through technology implementation in our classes. This podcast features a short greeting from Cathy Cox and Rosalind Morton as well as their impressions of their visit to our school. | 2/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoLife Science Students Study Genetic Transformations (VP) | Our seventh grade Life Science students have learned about transgenics: the process of extracting genetic material from one organism and inserting it into another. In this podcast they clearly describe the scientific process of this experiment in which they extracted a DNA plasmid from a jellyfish and inserted it into the DNA of a bacteria. They grew this new microorganism in the lab, designing a new species of bacteria which manufactures a protein that fluoresces under UV light, indicating that the new DNA had been successfully inserted into the DNA of the bacteria. Our students are getting an authentic look at how genetic scientists are using new technologies to create treatments (and hopefully someday even cures) for diseases such as diabetes, hemophilia, and sickle cell anemia to name a few. Did you learn this in your 7th grade science curriculum?! | 1/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoPiggy Week (VP) | Seventh grade Life Science students have been busy studying body systems and anatomy. This podcast by Mrs. Larkin and her students shows her students highly engaged in learning. | 1/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Celebrating a Birthday! | Students in Mrs. Kaplan's 8th grade Language Arts class studied a collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe. In this student podcast, Thomas' opening sentence sums up the quality of this student project: "Welcome to Mrs. Kaplan's class' literary theatre..." And theatre it is! We post this podcast now as a celebration of the author's birthday, which happens to be in just 2 days: Friday, January 19, 1809. Student producers: Collin and Kyle Student readers: Kaitlyn, Jillian, Kristen, Kyle, and Vance Student Narrator: Thomas | 1/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoMabry Helps Children in Peru (VP) | Mrs. Miceli is one of Mabry's sixth grade Social Studies teachers. Her sister and her husband (Karen & Paul Whitley) are missionaries who work in Peru. They have actively been working to raise funds to help build an orphanage in San Francisco, Peru. Before they left for their most recent trip back to Peru, Mrs. Whitley asked Mrs. Miceli if her classes would like to collect crayons and coloring books for the orphans, which are of Incan decent. As Mabry 6th grade students will be studying about Peru and the Incans, Mrs. Miceli thought this would be a great project for her students to accept, giving her students a firsthand experience with the people of Peru. Mrs. Miceli is so proud of her students. Their response was wonderful. They got to make a direct contribution to the people in a country they will study. And, for them to give up their Halloween candy for the orphans was an added bonus. This podcast features several Mabry students' reflections on what they saw and learned as a result of their contribution. | 1/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoMabry 7th Grade Book Chat (VP) | Mabry 7th grade Language Arts teachers sponsor a book chat in which students and parents read the same books and then enjoy being in class together experiencing a variety of activities based on their reading. During the book chat "coffee house" parents and students complete a guided discussion about the book they have read and even get to meet the author personally, ask him questions, and just savor reading and learning. This podcast features author Brett Hodus talking about his day at Mabry and the writing process. You will hear from Mabry's 7th grade Language Arts teachers and see pictures taken during the event. | 1/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mr. Howard's Students Make Mabry Ad (VP) | My Howard's students completed this clever little 1 minute enhanced podcast about Mabry Middle School. Enjoy! | 11/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoJekyll Island Preview (VP) | Our science students in 7th grade will be taking their annual science expedition to Jekyll Island once again this year. This podcast is a quick preview of last year's event. You can also check out last year's Jekyll, 2006, blog at MabryOnline.org for other podcasts and hundreds of photos from the expedition. | 10/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoJapan Global Collaborative Begins (VP) | Dr. Tyson is traveling to Japan as a guest of the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund. As part of his 19 day itinerary, he will be visiting many places: Tokyo, Fukuoka, Arao, and Tamana to name a few. He will visit several schools in Arao in the Kumamoto Prefecture, learning about the culture and educational system of Japan, and sharing his travels with his 7th grade students here at Mabry (as well as students all over the world) who study this country. We look forward to exchanging information between our schools and countries.This podcast introduces this project. | 10/2/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoMost Eggcellent Eggsperiment (VP) | Seventh grade Life Science @ Mabry continues to rock...or, um... egg. As a part of this major unit on cells, students were learning about cellular transportation through osmosis and diffusion. The students used eggs to parallel or model an animal cell. For 6 days they added solutions of varying water concentrations to observe the effects on the eggs' mass and circumference. The eggs could lose or gain mass based on the properties of the solution in which they soaked. Take just a few minutes to sense the eggcitement of learning in science! | 9/25/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | Video2006 CRCT Scores Released (VP) | We have created this video podcast of Mabry's CRCT scores from May, 2006. Sometimes data can be confusing, so here is a simple way to understand what you're about to see: We want more purple and no yellow. Each bar graph shows the percentage of students below grade level (yellow), on grade level and meeting expectations (blue), and above grade level and exceeding expectations (purple). The first chart in each data set shows an overview of that grade level's performance in each subject. The next several charts show how our students compared to the students in Cobb County as a whole and the state of Georgia in each subject area. You will notice that, in some subject areas, the data looks significantly different than it has in the past. These tests were renormed last year. | 9/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | Video2006 Open House: Did You Know (VP) | At the beginning of each school year Mabry welcomes parents to an Open House meeting. The meeting begins with a general session to introduce the PTSA and in which Dr. Tyson speaks about Mabry's direction and mission. Parents then start with their child's homeroom and actually attend each of their student's classes, meeting the teachers and getting a sense for what a day in the life of their child at Mabry is like.Before the Open House meeting began, this presentation, Did You Know, was showing. We have turned it into a podcast. The presentation provides an overview of our Mabry resources and juxtaposes those resources against a backdrop of the global challenges we face. | 9/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2006 Open House: Dr. Tyson's Presentation | At the beginning of each school year Mabry welcomes parents to an Open House meeting. The meeting begins with a general session to introduce the PTSA and in which Dr. Tyson speaks about Mabry's direction and mission. Parents then start with their child's homeroom and actually attend each of their student's classes, meeting the teachers and getting a sense for what a day in the life of their child at Mabry is like. This is a podcast of Dr. Tyson's Open House presentation--which he did on the interactive whiteboard. The presentation introduced the parents to how this technology can be used in the classroom with students and also provided Mabry with survey information to facilitate our future planning. Additionally he spoke of Mabry's mission statement and the role parents play in helping us continue our school's rich tradition of academic excellence. | 9/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | Video2006 Open House: Survey Results (VP) | At the beginning of each school year Mabry welcomes parents to an Open House meeting. The meeting begins with a general session to introduce the PTSA and in which Dr. Tyson speaks about Mabry's direction and mission. Parents then start with their child's homeroom and actually attend each of their student's classes, meeting the teachers and getting a sense for what a day in the life of their child at Mabry is like. In this podcast you will see the results from the ACTIVote survey from the Open House general meeting conducted by Dr. Tyson. Not only can teachers gain this type of insight from using this technology with their students in class, but, unlike the anonymous surveying done in our meeting, they can also gain immediate assessment data from each individual student in their classes. After the meeting, a parent asked if Mabry accepted donations or corporate sponsorships to increase the availability of this technology for our students. Yes, absolutely. We want this type of technology to be used pervasively by students and teachers. Our long term goal, which regrettably is probably several years out, is to substantially reduce the amount of time teachers spend with clerical tasks (grading papers) and give them that time to do more data analysis (analyzing daily assessment data for students). Simplistically put | 9/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoMicroscope Mania Sweeps 7th Grade Science (VP) | Mrs. Larkin and her students made this video podcast to show us all of the engaging learning experiences they had with their unit on microscopes. | 8/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoGummy Bears Teach Scientific Method (VP) | Gummy Bears were used in 7th grade Life Science to teach students the scientific method. This video podcast by Mrs. Kulkarni and her students is an overview of the lesson, procedures, vocabulary, and knowledge Mrs. Kulkarni's students learned. | 8/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoGIA Agents Conduct Global Investigations (VP) | Mrs. Glenn's 7th grade G.I.A. (Glenn's Intelligence Agency) agents begin their global investigations. Learn about what 7th grade social studies is up to @ Mabry. | 8/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoScience Rocks @ Mabry (VP) | Mrs. Larkin's 7th grade science students learn about the scientific method through an experiment with Gummy Bears. Learn all about the scientific method and their findings. | 8/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoDr. Tyson's Student Challenge for 2007 (VP) | At the beginning of each year Dr. Tyson meets with all of our Mabry students to review important school rules and routines as well as to challenge our students to do their very best work. In this video podcast, he talks with Mabry students about character, persistence, commitment, kindness, and other important aspirations. If you are new to Mabry, you will certainly want to listen carefully to his hope for your future. | 8/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoChorus at Mabry (VP) | This video podcast from our chorus teacher, Mrs. Smith, showcases her students' work last year with the musical production Cinderella. | 8/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoLife Science @ Mabry (VP) | Ms. Larkin, one of our 7th grade Life Science teachers, put together an excellent video podcast overview of the Inquiry-based Life Science program at Mabry Middle School. As our 7th grade science teachers participate deeply in collaboration, we decided to share this with the whole Mabry family. | 8/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoWork Commissioned for the Mabry Symphony (VP) | The Mabry Middle School Symphony Orchestra received a special invitation to perform for the 2006 Georgia Music Educators' Association Conference in Savannah. For this performance, a new work was commissioned for our symphony, The Star of Valor, by composer Doug Spata. In this excellent video podcast, you can listen to our symphony perform this wonderful work. Visit Mr. Doemel's blog at MabryOnline.org. I am very proud of our Mabry music programs and firmly believe they are surpassed by none in the United States! | 8/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Welcome to Mabry's Orchestra Program! | This podcast by our orchestra director, Mr. Chris Doemel, is an excellent overview of the orchestra program at Mabry Middle School. He provides a comprehensive overview of the program that will answer our most frequently asked questions. I invite all of our rising 6th grade students and parents to listen carefully to this wonderfully executed podcast! | 8/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoKid Capacity: Podcast with Raphaella (VP) | We have such incredible students at Mabry Middle School. In fact, I believe they are the leaders of tomorrow. Each brings a unique set of skills and attributes into which we at Mabry want to instill maximum capacity for leadership. This category in Podcast Central, Kid Capacity, is a collection of interviews with Mabry students that gives voice to the leaders of tomorrow, today. It's been a while since we have had a podcast in Kid Capacity. This podcast features one of our 6th grade students, Raphaella. Her parents provided me with a quicktime movie of her on the ice; so, I was able to make this into a video podcast. Raphaella talks about time management, her skating ambitions, and what skating means in her life. We also get to see her skills on the ice. Enjoy listening to one of our outstanding students at Mabry. | 6/18/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoLa Famille | The French classes did a class project: La Famille (the family). In this podcast, Chanel describes her family in pictures, writing, and with the podcast, orally. The project was first created as an iPhoto album, converted into a movie, and, finally, developed into a video podcast in which you hear Chanel introduce you to her family. Enjoy! | 5/15/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top Mabry Readers Take Home Nano and Shuffles | Georgia state law requires each middle school student reads 25 books each year. The majority of our Mabry students greatly exceed that goal. Hundreds read over 50 books, and many students even came close to 300 books read and documented in 1 year! This podcast features the top reader in each grade level. Of these three students, the one (Katherine, 8th grade) with the highest number of books read and correctly documented on the Mabry reading logs received an iPod Nano. The second highest (Wade, 6th grade) received a 240 song Shuffle. And the third highest (Chelsea, 7th grade) received a 120 song Shuffle. Listen to these students talk about their reading, their favorite books and authors, and how to pick interesting books. | 5/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mission Possible I | On May 3rd, in Podcast Central, I published Mission Possible. Our objective was to award an iPod Nano to the student whose essay, designed to help students excel at Mabry next year, was the best. The contest was so close we just had to have three winners! An iPod Nano was awarded to Katie. Two students, Gretchen and Kyle, tied for second place just just one point less than Katie! This podcast, by Katie, is the first in the series, Mission Possible, from our three winners. Students and parents both, listen carefully to Katie's excellent advice on how to achieve our school goal. If you follow her advice, I guarantee you will have even greater success at Mabry! We are making each of these mp3 podcasts so the students can actually download themselves into their new iPods! Congratulations to all of the students who participated. Everyone submitted excellent entries! | 5/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mission Possible IIa | On May 3rd, in Podcast Central, I published Mission Possible. Our objective was to award an iPod Nano to the student whose essay, designed to help students excel at Mabry next year, was the best. The contest was so close we just had to have three winners! An iPod Nano was awarded to Katie. Two students, Gretchen and Kyle, tied for second place, each with just one point less than Katie! This podcast, by Kyle, is the third in the series, Mission Possible, from our three winners. Students and parents both, listen carefully to Kyle's description of our school programs and his excellent advice on how to achieve our school goal. If you follow his advice, I guarantee you will have even greater success at Mabry! We are making each of these mp3 podcasts so the students can actually download themselves into their new iPods! Congratulations to all of the students who participated. Everyone submitted excellent entries! | 5/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mission Possible IIb | On May 3rd, in Podcast Central, I published Mission Possible. Our objective was to award an iPod Nano to the student whose essay, designed to help students excel at Mabry next year, was the best. The contest was so close we just had to have three winners! An iPod Nano was awarded to Katie. Two students, Gretchen (pictured) and Kyle, tied for second place, each with just one point less than Katie! This podcast, by Gretchen, is the second in the series, Mission Possible, from our three winners. Students and parents both, listen carefully to Gretchen's excellent advice on how to achieve our school goal while maintaining active involvement in sports. If you follow her advice, I guarantee you will have even greater success at Mabry! We are making each of these mp3 podcasts so the students can actually download themselves into their new iPods! Congratulations to all of the students who participated. Everyone submitted excellent entries! | 5/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Mabry Mom Shares | A parent of 2 Mabry students shares what her families experience has been at Mabry Middle School. She shares her ideas about community and about volunteering and contributing to her childrens' school experience. She gives advice to parents new to our school. She talks about what our listeners all over the world need to know about our school. We have posted podcasts from students, teachers, and administrators. This is the first from one of our parents whose contributions to our school community make a positive difference for everyone's child. | 5/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoThird Nine Weeks Student Art Work (VP) | We love to post student work at Mabry, and our Art teacher probably puts more student work up on bulletin boards around the school than anyone else. The work our students produce is so beautiful, she eagerly shares it with everyone in our school community. But why not share it to a much broader audience? This third video podcast of student art work at our school is posted to our new Worldwide Bulletin Board. Now our students can share their work with their friends and relatives all over the world! Enjoy! | 5/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoSecond Nine Weeks Student Art Work (VP) | We love to post student work at Mabry, and our Art teacher probably puts more student work up on bulletin boards around the school than anyone else. The work our students produce is so beautiful, she eagerly shares it with everyone in our school community. But why not share it to a much broader audience? This second video podcast of student art work at our school is posted to our new Worldwide Bulletin Board. Now our students can share their work with their friends and relatives all over the world! Enjoy! | 5/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mabry's Band Festival Performance Three | The music program at Mabry is widely respected. Our students and their teachers work very hard to attain a level of mastery and artistic expression rarely found among students this age. I have often bragged on their dedication and hard work as well as their commitment to making our world a better place by creating exemplary expressions of beauty. With great pleasure and pride, I present this third of three podcasts of a recent band performance by our eighth grade band. Mr. Alfred Watkins, head band director at Lassiter High School, stated that this was the best middle school band performance he has ever heard. Pause a moment and enjoy! | 5/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mabry's Band Festival Performance Two | The music program at Mabry is widely respected. Our students and their teachers work very hard to attain a level of mastery and artistic expression rarely found among students this age. I have often bragged on their dedication and hard work as well as their commitment to making our world a better place by creating exemplary expressions of beauty. With great pleasure and pride, I present this second of three podcasts of a recent band performance by our eighth grade band. Mr. Alfred Watkins, head band director at Lassiter High School, stated that this was the best middle school band performance he has ever heard. Pause a moment and enjoy! | 5/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mabry's Band Festival Performance One | The music program at Mabry is widely respected. Our students and their teachers work very hard to attain a level of mastery and artistic expression rarely found among students this age. I have often bragged on their dedication and hard work as well as their commitment to making our world a better place by creating exemplary expressions of beauty. With great pleasure and pride, I present this first of three podcasts of a recent band performance by our eighth grade band. Mr. Alfred Watkins, head band director at Lassiter High School, stated that this was the best middle school band performance he has ever heard. Pause a moment and enjoy! | 5/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mission Possible! | With just a few weeks left in the school year, I want to remind all of our students to do their best work and to accomplish our school's mission statement, which I shared with you on the second and third days of school this year. In fact, I made our students a promise in those meetings at the beginning of the school year. I stated that when you least expected it, I would post a podcast that would tell you how to compete to win an iPod Nano. This podcast, entitled Mission Possible, gives you the directions on how you can compete for the iPod Nano. Follow them carefully. Good luck! | 5/2/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | Video2006 Best Teaching and Learning (VP) | In May of 2001, we held our first Film Festival. That year, we did something that was really new: We made movies that were completely produced on the computer. At that time we did not realize that this simple idea, to have students and teachers use more technology in class, would lead Mabry Middle School to set the standard for technology innovation in public schools for the entire United States. The power of ideas! The idea was simple. The idea was transformational. The power of this little idea led us to receive the prestigious Schools of Distinction Award for Technology Innovation from Scholastic and Intel Corporation. Because of this national recognition, Mabry has had over 200 visitors come to our school from all over the nation to learn about what we do. Magazine articles have been written in professional journals about us. And our school even received over a quarter of a million dollars in grants and technology donations. Mabry actually competed against over 3,600 schools around the nation that applied for the award. We were even competing in the high school division. Because of this innovative use of technology for learning, the film festival, we won! Tonight we have the privilege and the pleasure to welcome you to the 5th Annual Mabry Middle School Film Festival. Tonight we celebrate our theme: “The Power of Ideas–-Stories From Our Studies.” Our first category for the evening is Best Teaching and Learning. The objective for these movies was to create a movie that would be the best representation of curricular significance. The nominees in this category are: * The Dark Side of Chocolate * Generation of Conscience * History Remembers * Inventions--Ideas of How We Work and Play * You Must Be the Change This video podcast contains all of the student movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | Video2006 Best 6th & 7th Grade Indis (VP) | From the very first year, students who were not participating on a school team for the Best Picture category still wanted to submit movies. The Independent Film category was born. This year, in the Independent Film category, one 6th grade movie, one 7th grade movie, and one 8th grade movie will each take home the gold. Since there are so many Independent movies to show, we will begin by showing the 6th and 7th grade films first. After we have shown the 8th grade films later tonight, we will then announce which movie won in each grade level. And because of the generous gift of an anonymous donor, a 4th award will be given to one of the Independent Films: a 60 gigabyte video iPod. But we will have to wait until just before the evening ends to learn which movie from the Independent Films wins the video iPod. The nominees are: * The Adaptations of Seals in the Antarctic * Atomic Bombs that Ended WW II * Human Predators -- Devastation in Antarctica * Lionesses This video podcast contains all of the student movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | Video2006 Best Documentary (VP) | I am not sure that people realize what a distinguished panel of judges we have each year, people who work in the communications and media industry in television, cable, radio, and film, as well as people in technology, education, and even the State Department of Education. During the judging this year, one of the judges, who has served as a judge since our very first film festival, said that our movies this year weren’t just the best ones yet, they were more seasoned, refined, and mature this year than they have ever been. The movies in our next category, the Documentary, were to strive to be the best presentation of political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner. The nominees are: * The Art Project * The Choice * Got Water? * The Heat Is On * Technology -- Losing Human Connection This video podcast contains all of the student movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | Video2006 Best Sound (VP) | This next category is absolutely the most difficult one for our students to master. The sound in a movie shapes the whole emotional tone of the movie’s content. The sound can make a great idea even more powerful. But while it is so powerful, it is very hard to get clean sound without a lot of noise. The nominees in this category did an excellent job of using sound, sound levels, and sound elements to powerfully convey the message of the movie. The nominees are: * The Choice * The Dark Side of Chocolate * Freedom * Stem Cells -- Science and Faith Divide * Technology -- Losing Human Connection This video podcast contains all of the student movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | Video2006 Best 8th Grade Indi (VP) | We now conclude the Independent Film category with the 8th grade independent movies. The nominees are: * Chain Reaction * Keeping the Faith * Microbes -- They Got a Bad Rap * Together One thing the audience will find interesting: In the microbe movie, a rap music video staring the microbes as themselves, the students not only wrote the words to the rap, but they also created their own music in GarageBand and did their filming through a microscope. That’s pretty creative! We will now announce the winning Independent movie in each grade level. Please hold your applause until all three grade level winners are announced. Winning students, if you will please come up together as a group to receive your trophies after all three grade levels are announced. This video podcast contains all of the student movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | Video2006 Best Dramatic Comedy (VP) | Before we begin this next category, we would like to remind you that we still have one final award to be given to a movie in the Best Independent Film category. This award, the 60 gigabyte video iPod, may be awarded to any movie in the Independent Film category. That’s right. It could be given to a 6th, 7th, or 8th grade movie. It could be awarded to an Independent Film that just won a trophy or it may go to an Independent Film that has yet to win an award tonight. We will just have to wait to see. The video iPods will be awarded later in the evening. Wait a minute, Austin. Did you just say iPods?--as in more than one? Oh no! I gave away the big secret. You’re right! We will be giving away two 60 gigabyte video iPods tonight! One will go to an Independent Film, and the other will be awarded to… Well, you will just have to wait and see! The Best Dramatic Comedy category is new this year. It was created to suit the needs of three special movies that fit just perfectly in this category. This category was created for films that effectively use parody or humor as a means of conveying a meaningful theme. The nominees are: * Dude, Where's My Lock * From Fantasy to Fact * Take French This video podcast contains all of the student movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | Video2006 Best Cinematography (VP) | The movie-makers in the Best Cinematography category did an excellent job with the overall visual impact of their film: lighting, composition and camera angles, photography, and framing. They did an exceptional job of making sure that the visual information in their movie told their story well. The nominees are: * Drugs, Are You Addicted? * Dude, Where's My Lock? * From Fantasy to Fact * Stem Cells -- Science and Faith Divide * When Things Go Wrong This podcast contains all of the student movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 67 | Video2006 Lifetime Achievement (VP) | And this is the part of the Film Festival that is always so sad to me. This is when we pay special tribute to the teachers that are retiring after a lifetime of service to children.This year Mabry only has one teacher that is retiring. We will now show this short clip to honor her service to the many children whose lives she has touched in her 26 years of service.[Link not yet available]Click the link above to download the movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our film festival. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | Video2006 Best Alumni (VP) | For the past two years, we have been asked by former Mabry students if they could enter films into the Mabry Film Festival. We created the Alumni Category to meet this need. Any movies submitted in this category only compete within this category and not for Best Picture. In this movie, Matthew, a former Mabry student now in 10th grade, demonstrates excellent use of his own 3D modeling, computer animation, student-generated computerized digital and in camera special effects, as well as blue/green screen and alpha channel compositing. | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 69 | Video2006 Best Picture Nominees (VP) | The iPod is such a powerful media player device. I love mine! I love listening to all of my music on it. But when Apple announced the video iPod, it got even more outrageously cool! Dr. Tyson has already placed all of the movies in each category on Podcast Central. That means, when we leave tonight, anyone in the world will be able to download the movies you have seen tonight from the iTunes Store or from MabryOnline’s Podcast Central! To think that every movie seen tonight is already in global distribution–that’s just amazing! Anyone, anywhere in the world can watch our movies and can even download them onto their video iPods. So tomorrow morning someone riding on the Tube in London might be watching my movie! That’s just way cool! And one of our Mabry student’s is about to win a video iPod. Tonight they can download all of our movies, including their own, onto their new video iPod! We now have the privilege of announcing which movie in the Best Independent Category will receive the 60 gigabyte video iPod. [Award] And earlier we learned that a second video iPod will be given away tonight. The judges decided that this second iPod could go to any movie from tonight’s film festival. [Award] Of course, the most coveted category award is winning the Best Picture Category. The criteria for this category is to combine all of the elements of the movie to bring a powerful emotional impact that convincingly conveys a significant message, leaving a lasting impression. Before we announce the winner for the Best Picture category, we will hear from each of the nominated teams about the movie their team made. [Student interviews played with movies] [Award] This podcast contains all of the interviews and movies in this category just as they were presented on April 25, 2006, the night of our 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival. And the final award made possible by another generous anonymous donation is the Apple iBook computer. The judges could select any movie from all of the movies submitted in the film festival to receive this amazing award. Each team had to pick one student from their team that would receive the Apple iBook if their team won this award. That just had to be incredibly difficult. We will now announce the winning movie and the person on that team who was selected by their teammates to receive the computer. [Award] The Mabry Film Festival is an incredible event that has earned our school prestigious national recognition. Your being here tonight is such an incredible affirmation of our hard work. One of the biggest reasons we love making these movies is to see how each of you react to the quality of our work. On behalf of all of the emcees for tonight’s film festival and all of the students and teachers who worked so hard to make these movies, we want to say, “Thank you, and goodnight.” | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science Fair Winners (EP) | I am proud of our students who participated in the District Science Fair. We had a number of students who placed and earned recognition for their work. This enhanced podcast features some of the students (Jeffrey, Kaleigh, Skylar, Chris) who won an award. Each student briefly describes his or her project. Enjoy! | 3/4/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7th Grade Jekyll Expedition: Meet Geo (EP) | I am at Jekyll Island with our 7th grade students. This field trip is just an awesome learning experience for our Mabry students. Be sure to keep up with the event "as it happens" at our Jekyll Blog, which features hundreds of pictures and important information related to the trip. This year we are even posting podcasts. I have consistently been impressed with the quality of the instruction our students get from the instructors at the 4-H Center. These young men and women are knowledgeable, energetic and enthusiastic about environmental studies, and work very well with middle school students. Unexpectedly this year, one of the instructors is himself a former Mabry student. Naturally, we did a podcast interview. Meet former Mabry student, Geo! | 2/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7th Grade Jekyll Expedition: The North End (EP) | I am at Jekyll Island with our 7th grade students. This field trip is just an awesome learning experience for our Mabry students. Be sure to keep up with the event "as it happens" at our Jekyll Blog, which features hundreds of pictures and important information related to the trip. This year we are even posting podcasts. This podcast is a highly compressed version of the student class about the living organisms around the docks. Despite the drizzly rain, we had a great time! Click the icon below to download our podcast. Then open the file in iTunes to watch it! | 2/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7th Grade Jekyll Expedition: The Dock (EP) | I am at Jekyll Island with our 7th grade students. This field trip is just an awesome learning experience for our Mabry students. Be sure to keep up with the event "as it happens" at our Jekyll Blog, which features hundreds of pictures and important information related to the trip. This year we are even posting podcasts. This podcast is a highly compressed version of the student class about the living organisms around the docks. Despite the drizzly rain, we had a great time! Click the icon below to download our podcast. Then open the file in iTunes to watch it! | 2/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 74 | VideoThe Alamo "Book Report" (VP) | In 2004 two eighth graders, Cameron and Matt, made this "book report." This project demonstrates how effectively students can convey their work through video. | 12/14/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | VideoThe Realia Museum at the GIA (VP) | Mrs. Glenda Glenn, our 7th grade Advanced Content Social Studies teacher, is the Chief Educational Officer (CEO) of the Glenn Intelligence Agency (GIA as opposed to the CIA). Each of her "operatives" (students) are investigative agents in the quest for global knowledge. In the spring of 2005, she began the Realia Museum, with collections from her travels. The museum has grown with acquisitions from two grants, additional donations, and visiting exhibits. Artifacts from the museum collection were professionally photographed by her operatives and assembled in iPhoto to create a virtual museum. This project will ultimately yield a hardback book, which will also be made available as an online pdf download. The operatives wish to share their collection with students and teachers around the globe. As a teaser for this upcoming release in January of 2006, the GIA has sponsored the creation of this video podcast. As you view the podcast, note the exemplary museum quality of the student work. | 12/12/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 76 | VideoMabry Celebrates and Gives Thanks (VP) | On November 15, 2005, Mabry Middle School paused to celebrate four significant accomplishments at our school: 27 years of outstanding service to our community, Completion of $8.8 million in SPLOST renovations and additions, Scholastic and Intel's prestigious Schools of Distinction Award for Technology Innovation, and Georgia's Silver Award for Academic Achievement: Highest Percentage of Students At and Above Grade Level. This video podcast is Dr. Tyson's presentation at the dinner celebration. He discusses each achievement and ends the presentation by answering the question, "Where do we go from here?" The goal he sets before us at Mabry: "In order to meet the unfettered demands of the global job market, we need to turn school on its head by changing school from an information distribution system to a collection of collaborative knowledge fabrication systems, and let's start that shift here at Mabry." Listen to either of these podcasts to find out what he means by this significant challenge. So, if you were unable to attend our celebration, enjoy this "virtual celebration!" To view a list of our special guests for the evening, go to the link for this article. | 11/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mabry Celebrates and Gives Thanks | On November 15, 2005, Mabry Middle School paused to celebrate four significant accomplishments at our school: 27 years of outstanding service to our community, Completion of $8.8 million in SPLOST renovations and additions, Scholastic and Intel's prestigious Schools of Distinction Award for Technology Innovation, and Georgia's Silver Award for Academic Achievement: Highest Percentage of Students At and Above Grade Level. In this audio-only podcast below is Dr. Tyson's presentation at the dinner celebration. He discusses each achievement and ends the presentation by answering the question, "Where do we go from here?". The goal he sets before us at Mabry: "In order to meet the unfettered demands of the global job market, we need to turn school on its head by changing school from an information distribution system to a collection of collaborative knowledge fabrication systems, and let's start that shift here at Mabry." Listen to find out what he means by this significant challenge. If you were unable to attend our celebration, enjoy this "virtual celebration!" To view a list of our special guests for the evening, go to the link for this article. | 11/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 78 | VideoBest School in the World (VP) | Posted by: Dr. Tyson Yesterday I went to 6 different classes with 1 simple question for the students: "If you were to walk into the best school in the entire world, what would you see?" I told the students that I wanted thoughtful answers, as in answers that are full of thought. I gave no suggestions, no ideas, no context whatsoever. I simply asked them the question. I must admit to being stunned by the depth of their answers. Our students will tell us what an excellent educational setting is if we only ask. They get it. Listen to their answers. | 11/16/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Les petits poissions dans l’eau | “Les petits poisons dans l’eau” is a French poem. The title means “The Little Fish in the Water.” This poem tells us that the little fish swim as well as the big fish. Mabry French students use poetry to work on pronunciation and fluency. | 11/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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French ABC | The French alphabet is very similar to the English alphabet. In this Podcast, you can practice your French alphabet along with Mabry’s French students. | 11/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Page d’écriture | Page d’écriture is poem by Jacques Prévert, a very famous French poet. The title of the poem means "Page of Writing." French students from Mabry’s feeder high school, Lassiter, are the voices of the teacher, student and narrator in the poem. The student in the poem is bored with her lesson and upon seeing a bird out the window of her classroom calls to the bird to play with her. This Podcast will be used to work on students’ oral fluency. | 11/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What's It Like to Move to a New School | Posted by: Dr. Tyson Moving to a new school is really tough. Being a middle school student is tough. Put the two together? No way! In this podcast we explore the stories of five of our new students in 7th and 8th grades. They moved from near and far. Most planned their move, but one 8th grade girl was forced to move unexpectedly because of the tragedy of Katrina. She and her family lost everything but found a wonderful school. This podcast contains the stories they told and the advice they give to students who move. They also share their thoughts on how students can welcome people to our school family. | 11/7/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 83 | VideoPE Department Gets Psyched for Film Festival with Frisbees (VP) | Every year the PE Department has produced an outstanding award-winning movie for the Film Festival and has taken home an Oscar. What's even more amazing is that each year the movie team has a different Coach for their sponsor! (No pressure here for this year's sponsor, Coach Spannagel!...) Well, like any great group of coaches, you warm up the team before the big game. That's exactly what Coach McCall did with this video podcast! The students got to start practicing their technology skills as the PE Department gears up for their BIG movie project. Our students recently finished their Ultimate Frisby unit, and Coach McCall had the camera crew working, followed by the video software editing team. The students put together this video podcast that shows off their learning new frisbee stunts and preparing for the final round of Ultimate Frisbee. Who said PE couldn't integrate technology into their curriculum?! Our PE Department is at the top of their game! | 11/7/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 84 | VideoSocial Studies Projects (part 2) (VP) | Each of our sixth grade Social Studies students typically does a report on each student's family's geographic, religious, and cultural heritage. These reports have then been presented to the class as a wonderful way to highlight family heritage and values and to welcome students into a greater understanding and appreciation of the rich geographic diversity that constitutes our larger school community. Last year the Social Studies teachers decided to use digital storytelling to make this project come alive. Students scan in pictures and take pictures of family artifacts and then combine them in video celebrating their family. This year we are sharing two of those family stories with our larger classroom, the whole world. Hopefully the friends and relatives of these children, friends and relatives who live all over the world, can see these students' work. Enjoy these student-created stories of ancestry, rich heritage, and connectedness. This project was created by Julie. The project in the post below was created by Abby. Enjoy the work of these two 6th graders. | 11/7/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 85 | VideoSocial Studies Projects (part 1) (VP) | Each of our sixth grade Social Studies students typically does a report on each student's family's geographic, religious, and cultural heritage. These reports have then been presented to the class as a wonderful way to highlight family heritage and values and to welcome students into a greater understanding and appreciation of the rich geographic diversity that constitutes our larger school community. Last year the Social Studies teachers decided to use digital storytelling to make this project come alive. Students scan in pictures and take pictures of family artifacts and then combine them in video celebrating their family. This year we are sharing two of those family stories with our larger classroom, the whole world. Hopefully the friends and relatives of these children, friends and relatives who live all over the world, can see these students' work. Enjoy these student-created stories of ancestry, rich heritage, and connectedness. This project was created by Abby. The project in the post above was created by Julie. Enjoy the work of these two 6th graders. | 11/7/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kid Capacity: Podcast with Chelsea | Georgia law now requires every student in middle school read 25 books in a given school year. A book is considered 150 pages of printed text, and that's still a lot of reading. One of our students, Chelsea, has already read a total of 83 books. She got started this summer and has carefully documented her reading using our school reading logs. Obviously she is an avid reader. I wanted to recognize her outstanding achievement and thought our Podcast Central listeners would want to hear from this sweet little 7th grade girl. | 11/3/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 87 | VideoFirst Nine Weeks Student Art Work (VP) | We love to post student work at Mabry, and our Art teacher probably puts more student work up on bulletin boards around the school than anyone else. The work our students produce is so beautiful, she eagerly shares it with everyone in our school community. But why not share it to a much broader audience? This first video podcast of student art work at our school is posted to our new Worldwide Bulletin Board. Now our students can share their work with their friends and relatives all over the world! Enjoy! | 11/2/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spanish Podcast Debut | Señora Rivera's 8th grade Spanish students have been busy at work this year as they begin to learn the rich culture and language of the Spanish-speaking people. In addition to their studies, several of our Spanish students have been working on assembling podcasts from their studies. Brandon put the finishing touches on this, the first Mabry Spanish podcast. This podcast reviews: * the letters of the alphabet | 11/2/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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National Junior Honor Society Induction Ceremony | On September 23, 2005, Mabry Middle School held an induction ceremony for our chapter of the National Junior Honor Society. Parents attended this special event in which over 60 of our 7th and 8th grade students accepted the oath of Leadership, Scholarship, Character, Citizenship, and Service. The ceremony was followed by a reception for parents and students. This was a special event in the history of our school as this is our first group of inductees into our newly-formed chapter. This short podcast illuminates the high ideas of the society to which the students made their pledge. | 11/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 90 | Video5th Annual Film Festival Theme (VP) | Each year's annual Mabry Film Festival has a theme. Our themes from the past four years have been: Generations, Peace, Imagine, and Celebrate Achievement. Today we are announcing the 5th Annual Mabry Film Festival theme. We are exploring new technological horizons in the way we are making the announcement: a 23 second video podcast that can be downloaded and played on the new video iPods! Click the image above to download the podcast for your video iPods. Drop the file into iTunes and sync it to your video iPod! (Both Windows and Macs must have the latest version of Quicktime 7.0.3 or later installed!) As with last year, we want our movies to be powerful, inspiring, and uplifting. We want to continue to give our students a powerful voice that matters for good in our world! So students, I want to challenge each of you to make movies that will astound the adults. And remember, the world is your audience! | 11/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Student Forum Elections | This podcast features the four students that are running for student forum president. I decided to give them the opportunity to show everyone how quickly they can think on their feet. Each student came into my office to record just one reason why they would be an excellent student forum president. Each one of them did an excellent job with the podcast. | 10/24/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 92 | Video2005 Best Picture Category (VP) | We simply can't pass up an opportunity for our student's amazing work to be made available for everyone in the world to view on their video iPods. Therefore, we are posting a video podcast of the five student movies and student interviews from the 2005 Fourth Annual Mabry Film Festival's Best Picture Category. | 10/17/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Language Arts Research Papers | Mrs. Hartnett, our 2005 - 2006 Teacher of the Year, and Ms. Collins, our 2004 - 2005 Teacher of the Year, team-taught their first 8th grade Language Arts research unit at the beginning of the year. The students researched world-wide charitable organizations as well as those found closer to home in the metro area. Little did they know at the time how timely their work would become with the recent tragedy experienced on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. In keeping with our Mabry commitment to give our students a significant, meaningful, global voice, and as part of the end-of-unit project, a group of students (Annie, Maggie, Mia, Mary, and Katie) was selected to communicate to our global community the wealth of information they had encountered. By sharing this information through this student podcast (which comes directly out of their curriculum), the students hope that they can in some way help the victims of these disasters. Mabry Middle School: giving students a significant, meaningful, global voice to make the world a better place! | 10/14/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Podcast with Stephanie | We have such incredible students at Mabry Middle School. In fact, I believe they are the leaders of tomorrow. Each brings a unique set of skills and attributes into which we at Mabry want to instill maximum capacity for leadership. This category in Podcast Central, Kid Capacity, is a collection of interviews with Mabry students that gives voice to the leaders of tomorrow, today. | 9/19/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Podcast with Stephen | We have such incredible students at Mabry Middle School. In fact, I believe they are the leaders of tomorrow. Each brings a unique set of skills and attributes into which we at Mabry want to instill maximum capacity for leadership. This category in Podcast Central, Kid Capacity, is a collection of interviews with Mabry students that gives voice to the leaders of tomorrow, today. | 9/12/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parent Open House (EP) | During the second full week of school, Mabry hosted Open House for our parents. This time together begins with a general meeting with Dr. Tyson. He presents the vision for the school year, the mission for Mabry, general information and procedures. This enhanced podcast includes the Keynote slides from that meeting as well as much of his presentation. | 8/29/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parent Open House Podcast | During the second full week of school, Mabry hosted Open House for our parents. This time together begins with a general meeting with Dr. Tyson. He presents the vision for the school year, the mission for Mabry, general information and procedures. This regular podcast represents the substance of his presentation. After the general session, parents are dismissed to their student's homeroom where they get a copy of their child's schedule and proceed through their student's academic day, meeting teachers and being introduced to the various courses of study. | 8/29/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The French Jump Rope Song | This podcast teaches the days of the week to a traditional French jump rope song. The music is from Bizet's "Carmen" and "Walk the Dog" from freeplaymusic.com. This is the first teacher podcast produced by Mabry's students who are studying French. | 8/25/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Tyson's Challenge to Students (EP) | This enhanced podcast is a summary of the beginning of the year meetings Dr. Tyson had with the students at Mabry. In it he goes over some of the important school rules, but most importantly, he sets forth a challenge for students. Since this is an enhanced podcast you can also see his Keynote Presentation in iTunes as you listen. | 8/23/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Tyson's Challenge to Students | This podcast is a summary of the beginning of the year meetings Dr. Tyson had with the students at Mabry. In it he goes over some of the important school rules, but most importantly, he sets forth a challenge for students. Since this is a regular podcast, all you have to do to listen to it is click on the icon above. | 8/23/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Is Podcasting? | Listen to find out! Just click on the icon above to listen to this podcast now on your computer. Since this is not an enhanced podcast, iTunes is not required. If you wish to download this podcast to your iPod so you can listen to it later when your computer is not close at hand, you will need iTunes. Start by reading the posts in the category, "About Podcasting." It's easy! | 7/2/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Is an Enhanced Podcast? (EP) | This is the same podcast as the one posted above. However, it's an enhanced podcast; notice the "EP" next to the purple antenna. Listening to an enhanced podcast on your computer requires using iTunes 4.9 and has an extra step or two not required when listening to a normal podcast. But it's much more cool! (For more information on the features of enhanced podcasts and how to use them, read the posts located under the category, "About Podcasting" in the gray sidebar on the right.) To listen to this podcast on your computer, click on the icon above, which downloads the file instead of immediately playing it, like a regular podcast. Once the file has downloaded to your computer, drop it into the main iTunes window to play it. Now you can see the podcast as well as hear it! | 7/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 102 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
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go Dr. Tyson...... i love going to this school and listning to the awesome podcast
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I like the podcast and the theme song but it needs to be updated more. Aren't the iMovies supposed to be up now?
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When I first saw these video podcasts, I was blown away. They are absolutely inspiring. Students and teachers together with technology are capable of creating amazing products that will change our world.
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