TIPS Volume 3, No. 7
March, 2003

     Grade Level Key 
     = Elem, = Middle
     = High, = Teachers

Clays Mill Elementary STLP - Busy Beginning Year!

The Clays Mill STLP has been busy this year using our new digital cameras and laminator. To help out our Academic Team, we made them nameplate inserts with every students name written large enough for all to see. We, also, made them nametags to wear that clips on to their shirt for competitions. We laminated all of this so that they will last for a long time!

In December, using our new cameras, each student took another student’s picture. They were copied to a transparency, cut out and inserted into a clear glass ornament. Each student made a personal tag that we tied around and gave to our parents for a Christmas gift. We have made various projects using Publisher and Word for our school and we are presently working on a staff cookbook. For more information: Contact Debbie Baker.

Glendover Elementary STLP - What the Gram is all about & their new morning TV show!

Here, at Glendover Global Studies School we try to put a bit of fun in STLP...so we buy, sell and make Happy Grams!

A Happy Gram is a little card that the members of STLP have designed in cyber art programs such as Paint and Kid Pix. The pictures can also be drawn by hand and scanned into the computer. Candy is taped to the back of each card and sold for twenty-five cents. We sell Happy Grams four times during the school year: two weeks before Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's and summer vacation.  The money that is raised from selling Happy Grams goes back into our STLP program for items that we need.

That's about all there is to the Happy Gram. We hope you spread the happiness too!

Lights! Camera! Action!

Welcome to the WGGSS Morning Show! The WGGSS Morning Show takes place at Glendover Global Studies School daily at 7:30am but STLP fifth graders begin their job as early as 7:00am. Sometimes their eyes are not open yet! They enter the studio (located in the room behind the Media Center) and begin setting up the equipment. The Director rehearses with the two anchors and birthday announcer while the cameraman readies the camera.

The Morning Show just recently got underway…our first broadcast took place on Thursday, February 13, 2003. Planning for this big endeavor began in the fall with the purchase of a camera and tripod. A location then had to be secured with accessibility to the network, a backdrop had to be designed, the show’s format had to be developed and the crew had to be trained. We also decided to incorporate a "silent dismissal" for the afternoons.

Whew! It’s quite a production! All of this has been made possible by Glendover’s STLP, which supplies our fabulous all-student cast and crew! We’re thrilled to have closed circuit technology in place at Glendover, and we look forward to years of successful broadcasting.

For more information about these projects: Contact Dianne Griffin.