Student Radio to Air on Peach City Radio starting June 16th!

I'm excited to let families know that student radio shows will begin airing on Peach City Radio starting on Monday June 16th!  Each week a new 30 minute episode will be released.  Each episode will play four times over the week and then it will be archived and available for listening on demand.

When?

Each new episode airs 4 times over the course of the week as follows.
9am Mondays
1am Tuesdays-- **Note I had earlier listed this incorrectly as 1pm.
9pm Wednesdays
3pm Thursdays
After approximately 6pm on Thursdays the episode will be available in the program archive area here for on demand streaming or download anytime.

Where?

For 'live' episodes check out the schedule above and then go to peachcityradio.org and click on the big Listen Now! button on the right side of the screen.

Listen Now! button on the Peach City Radio website.

For archived episodes go to our program page here and click on the episode title to stream the episode or click on the download icon to download it.

Download icon

What?

Below are descriptions of the episodes.

Episode 1 -- Airing the week of June 16th (Now in the archive here)
What do ants, manatees, sharks, chipmunks, and rabbits have in common?  They are all featured on episode 1 of The Creation Station!  Also on this episode you'll get to hear some sweet tunes and learn about Morse Code, Pig Latin, and Swedish.
Contributors to this week's episode were; Braidy, Jordan, Ellen, Luke, Katie U, Dija, Kailey, Ryan A, Ryan M, Rhett, Jessica, Lauren, Elijah, Sean, Aoife, Grace L, Ricki, McGarry, Harry, Gina,  Stephanie H, and Zack K.

Episode 2 -- Airing the week of June 23rd (Now in the archive here)
In this episode we look at a variety of languages and ways of communicating -- for people and animals!  Under the topic of how animals communicate we hear from Stephanie H about puppies and kittens, Niamh about birds, and Leigha tells us about using German commands with dogs.  In terms of how people communicate, Katie B tells us about sign language, Nicola about Braille, and Joycey and Kristen explain how to speak Chip Latin.  We also have the story A Squash and a Squeeze from the Penticton grade 1 - 2 class (Ellen, Luke, Katie U, Jayda, Kailey, Ryan A, Ryan M, & Rhett), music selections from Logan, a lesson on how to beatbox from Tristan as well as information on Robert E Lee from Fynn and George.  What a show!

Episode 3 -- Airing the week of June 30th (Now in the archive here)
In this episode you'll hear Guess That Song... And Riddles! from Danica and Nicola, Morse Code from Amy, and Igpay Atinlay from Maia and Jamie.  Tori and Olivia K will tell us about Dolphin Communication, Kehler has our station ID, Katie D will let us know about Satellites, and Jaras, Miles and Graham will share what they've learned about The Enigma Machine.  You'll also hear Bird Feed! from Josh D and Isaac M and Bug Talk (the one about grasshoppers) from Braidy and Jordan.  Ricki and Gebrielle will tell us about Semaphore, Olivia L will describe Foot Flagging in Frogs, and Marcus will wrap things up for us with The Music Channel.

Episode 4 -- Airing the week of July 7th  (After July 10th will be in the archive here)

In this episode you will hear Ashley with Communication Online, Connor with information on ASCII and Binary, Thea and Grace with Echolocation, Oscar and Harjas with Science and Stuff! (Hieroglyphics), Josh K with our Station ID and Holden with his Super Story.  You will also hear another segment of Bug Talk with Jordan, Braidy and special guest Eloise.  Stephanie T will tell us about Italian Communication and Chloe and Stephanie H will spin us some tunes with their Music of the 21st Century.  Enjoy!

Episode 5 -- Airing the week of July 14th  (After July 17th will be in the archive here)
This episode is packed with information! Contributors are; Kieran (Morse Code), Josh K (Lynx Communication), Ty (The Enigma Machine), Kehler (Radio), Chloe and friends (Frank’s House of Chairs), Liam and Jimmy (Braille), Sasha and Paul (The AGR Show), Braidy, Jordan and Guests (Bug Talk / NexGen Communication), Mykenna (Sign Language), Oscar and Niamh (Roald Dahl’s poem Wonka Vite), Eloise (Wolf Communication), Connor (Removing a Computer Virus), Caitlin S (Animal Communication) and Stephanie H and Chloe (Music of the 21st Century). Enjoy!

Episode 6 -- Airing the week of July 21st (After July 24th will be in the archive here)
This is the final episode of The Creation Station.

Contributors to this episode are; Harry and McGarry (4m’s Show: More Sleep For Kids), Tori and Olivia K (Dolphins), Danica (Morse Code), Chloe (Steganography), Jordan and Braidy and guests (NexGen Communication the one about hockey), the Wednesday morning grade 5 class (Thank You Chris Walker), Brandon, Isaac G, Koen, Max and Zack K with the CBC Tapes, and we wrapped things up with music from local musicians Aidan Mayes and Mandy Cole.

What a ride it's been!

A BIG THANK YOU TO PEACH CITY RADIO!

The board members and programmers at Peach City Radio have been fabulous in supporting the students and me with our radio project.  I have attended a number of workshops through Peach City Radio to learn the ins and outs of community radio.  In addition, Peach City Radio board members Dave Del Rizzo, Jackie Del Rizzo, Craig Henderson, Tim Tweed, and Larry Saidman visited the classes and shared their expertise and experience with the students, and in some cases they were able to listen to student shows and offer feedback.  Their passion for community radio is amazing!  They are all volunteers and I am grateful to them for their support and for hosting our show.  In particular I'd like to thank Dave and Jackie Del Rizzo.  Dave contacted me last spring and after conversations back and forth via e-mail he, Jackie and I met to sketch out some initial ideas.   

Peach City Radio!

This week: visits from Peach City Radio!

Peach City Radio 

Most of the classes were visited by board members from Peach City Radio. We learned that Peach City Radio is a community radio station and is run entirely by volunteers.  Currently Peach City Radio streams online (here) and also archives shows for on-demand listening (here).  I have attended a number of workshops and information sessions that Peach City Radio has hosted and they have been instrumental in me being better able to help the students with their work.

Each of the presenters from Peach City Radio gave their unique perspective on and experience with radio.  We listened to segments from each of their shows and students asked lots of great questions about making radio.  Below are photos of each of our visitors.

In most of the classes our guests were able to listen to the radio shows that students have been working on.  Students were able to ask questions one-on-one and receive feedback from radio experts!  This was a real highlight for both the students and our guests.

In almost all of the visits each class recorded some station IDs for Peach City Radio (the entire class reciting "We're listening to Peach City Radio" or something similar).  The station IDs recorded by Tim Tweed with the Tuesday morning class will air on the stream tomorrow, Monday March 17th, at 9:59 am (Tenatious-T shout out) and 1:30 pm (Peach City Radio shout out).

Peach City Radio has offered to host our student shows!  In the weeks ahead I will be putting together half hour episodes containing student content.  Before any student work is posted, parental consent will be sought as well as permission from the students.

Our guests, and the shows that we listened to were as follows:

Jackie Del Rizzo

• visited the AIM class
• does the Penticton Top 40 Under 40 show
• we listened to part of this show as well as some other clips that Jackie brought

Tim Tweed (the Tenacious T!)

• visited the Tuesday morning grade 3/4 class
• does Sounds From the Tenacious Hi-Fi, Under Cover, and Arts on the Radio
• we listened to part of this Under Cover show about musical plagiarism

Craig Henderson

• visited the ASPIRE class and the Thursday afternoon grade 3/4 class
• does Craig in the Community, segments of Meadowlark on the Air, and writer and producer of The Big Broadcast
• we listened to part of Craig's interview with talented voice actor Alan Marriott as well as this ad recorded live at The Big Broadcast

Larry Saidman

• visited the Wednesday grade 5 class
• does Larry Saidman's Top 200 Albums of All Time
• we listened to part of this show where Larry interviews local musician Spengla Yves

Dave Del Rizzo

• visited the Thursday grade 5 class
• does Left Off the Dial and Caught in the Act
• we listened to part of this Left Off the Dial show as well as to some other clips that Dave brought

Trustees Stopped In

Also joining us this week for one of the Peach City Radio visits were School District 67 trustees Ginny Manning and Linda Van Alphen.  They enjoyed getting a chance to listen to the student projects as well as to see the students in action as they worked on their shows.  It was a great opportunity to showcase what we do in the Gifted Program.  

Thank You!

A big thank you to all of our guests this week for taking time out from their busy schedules to come and share their expertise and to find out a little more about what we've been up to!

Grade 1/2 Class Experiments With Audacity

The Penticton Grade 1/2 class has been involved in recording 2 short stories, but up until this week they hadn't had a chance to use the audio recording software Audacity.  As with the other classes their first introduction was a chance to play and experiment.  The students quickly figured out how to record their voices and then they were off and running, trying out various effects.  There was a lot of uproarious laughter as they listened to their voices sped up, slowed down, with echoes etc.  After the break we will experiment more with Audacity.

Spring Break

We're off on Spring Break now.  Classes will resume again the week of March 31st and continue until the May long weekend.  After that time I will be meeting with all parents to discuss how the year went and to plan for next year.  This is also when I do assessments for students who have been referred to the Gifted Program. 

Thanks for checking in to see what we've been up to... This Week In Gifted!