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Kids Talk Radio®
Getting Kids Excited About Learning
A Program by Bob Barboza, Super School Software
Kids
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. 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 Kids 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 FableVision’s BrainCogs
program 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 Kids Talk Radio, we useFableVision’s Essay Express.
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
Kids 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 atsuprschool@aol.com, or visit www.kidstalkradiola.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.
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