Westwood Schools

Edutopia has launched their new Digital Youth Project and has posted the video about Virginia, one of our upcoming 10th graders, and our computer program. (Video below.)  This is a huge honor to be included and Virginia and Mrs. Davis will be on a live webinar next Thursday talking about how Westwood's technology program reaches the world and strives for excellence.

In these videos you'll see featured Virginia, Mrs. Azalee Vereen, Mrs. Betty Shiver, our fourth grade students and ninth grade students and some of the students who attended the Flat Classroom conference in Qatar.

Labels: education

Westwood has completed another very successful year.  The Calendars for 2009-2010 are posted to our website and available in the front office for pick up.

Students in our high school are immersed in learning about the math, science, history, and creativity inspired by our local Flint River. Parents and supporters of the school are encouraged to join in the Flint River Project by joining our Ning and commenting and sharing their knowledge.


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Students will be participating in multi-age groups with a specific focus for this week as they deeply learn about a topic of their choice. Please see the Flint River Ning for more details about what they are doing.

Each morning around 8:15 am, some students will be filming the opinions of local citizens about the Flint River, conservation, water rights, history, and special memories, as well as hosting interviews throughout the county. If you wish to share your story, feel free to drop by Camilla Java between approximately 8:15 am - 8:45 am each morning to share your thoughts.


Today, students interviewed Mr. Dan Bollinger, Director of the Southwest Georgia Regional Development Center and Mr. Keith Jones, County Commissioner from Pelham at Camilla Java. Many other interviews were conducted throughout the county that are mentioned and will be shared on our Ning. Join us!

 
Find more videos like this on Flint River Project

 
Find more videos like this on Flint River Project

Labels: projects

The Westwood Honor Society annual blood drive will be held on May 8, 2009. WE will again hold it in the auditorium from 7:30 am until 3:30 pm. Please email Vicki Davis to reserve your time to donate.

Each National Honor Society member has to recruit two donors, and each donor will receive a t-shirt.

Note that in prior years each donor has received 2 T-shirts (one for themselves and 1 for a child), but at this time, we do not have enough sponsors for this. If you wish to sponsor the T-shirts along with P&C Bank and the National Honor Society - and receive your logo on the T-shirt, please call Vicki Davis as soon as possible 229-336-7992! We would appreciate your sponsorship of this worthy event -- and every Friday, these T-shirts are very popular.

So, please go ahead and sign up to donate! Thank you!

The ninth grade students have been blogging and authoring this year about their work with digital citizenship and virtual worlds. (See their blog at http://digiteendreamteam.blogspot.com).

One student, Miller S., (withholding full name to protect identity for this writing) has been selected and is writing for British educational technology consultant Terry Freedman for his Computer in the Classrooms newsletter.  For this newsletter, she wrote an article about her views of social networking in education.  Additionally, Terry, who began his career as a teacher, and his wife Elaine, interviewed Miller via skype to create an audio recording called a podcast. This podcast will be released on Terry's site next week.

Miller did such a great job, that she is also writing a weekly column for the next seven weeks called "Ask Miller" for Mr. Freedman in which she answers questions that come in from around the world about a teenagers view of technology in education.

We are very proud of Miller's work and of all of the amazing students at Westwood Schools who work to excel in technology and in everything else that they do.  We will be watching Miller's work, and you may subscribe to the newsletter, to see what she is writing and saying. 

Terry Freedman has written over 3,000 articles and served as a teacher and administrator in the British Educational System from 1975 - 2004.  You can see his full bio here.  Mr. Freedman has been an advisor for Vicki Davis' Flat Classroom Projects  and delivered the keynoted the 2008 project. He has also featured the writing of Westwood Senior, Casey Cox.

Terry Freedman's 2008 Keynote for the Flat Classroom Project

Enjoy our photo album from Prom 2009 or watch the slideshow below.  The Juniors did an amazing job transforming the auditorium into the inside of a cruise ship.

Labels: events

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The Children’s Clothing Market Event