UPDATE: Please go to richmondms.ywpschools.net to see some of the kids' Photo Stories.

Some of you had asked me to post this where you could see it. Several teachers have already tried out this idea with great success. Suggestions on how to do this in the classroom are below the picture.

This is my uncle Frank, Frank Glazer. He is 95 years old. He still performs as a concert pianist. He still teaches at Bates College. This year's project was to perform each of Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas in the order they were composed. He started in September and finished April 9. In the background is Frank's 1968 recording of Erik Satie's work; the New York Times called it the Classical Album of the Year. Frank has played with symphony orchestras all over the world. He premiered two of Aaron Copland's pieces. He began his career at aged 13 in a vaudeville show. Music, Frank says, keeps him alive.

-- Geoffrey Gevalt, YWP Director

As we've worked with this site, it's been a struggle to inspire third and fourth graders to stick with an assignment through revisions to a final product. It's also been challenging to have the students provide helpful comments to their peers.

Having students make video comments seemed like the perfect way to add a sense of importance to what they had to say. My first attempt was with a flip camera as I didn't have a web cam. It was so interesting to video tape the comments. First I was clear about the focus of the comments. Students needed to refer back to the assignment for the first journal entry for the multimedia project about immigration. I saw a new level of concentration and a seriousness about choosing the right words to say in the video.

We love science!

I do not know where the directions are for uploading images from the internet or ading them to YWP.  I have a great picture of my totem (spirit animals) from the internet.  I thought I added it to images, but have no idea where it went or, if I found it, how to make it a tag.

I am sure there must be step by step instructions somewhere.  Where?

This is where I would put a sad picture.........here.

Thank you.