Sound Bytes

Rioghnach shares with listeners some of her favorite tips about using Photoshop on the PC. It’s time to learn how to manipulate your graphic files.

Using Rioghnach’s suggestions,

you will learn how to:

— make borders appear

— use the blending and airbrush tools, and

— use layers.

Vipul, Jason, and Clay demonstrate their skills at Six Degrees of Separation connections by showing how easily you can move from pineapples to clocks in just six steps.

Band director, Matt Talbert, conducts the eighth grade band at Hanes Middle School in three selections: Acclamations, Two British Folk Songs, and the Great Locomotive Chase.

Band director, Matt Talbert, conducts the seventh grade band at Hanes Middle School in two selections: Eagle Ridge and Engines of Resistance.

Band director, Matt Talbert, conducts the sixth grade band at Hanes Middle School in two selections: Little Rondo and Comet Ride.

Barbara Butryn, art teacher at Hanes Middle, explains a recent water color project completed by 8th grade students in advanced art class.

Students first practice with water colors. Next they draw with glue any image they choose and then begin working with water colors to fill in the picture. Each color must have at least three values.

Anne, Jason, and Andrew share their Lego NXT projects.

Jason is working on programming the ultrasonic sensor. Andrew is working on an arm that uses the light sensor to detect a red ball. And Anne is working on a program to enable the robot to track along a strip of white tape using the light sensor.

Tyler Canada, Harry Potter wizardry expert, shares his favorite spells.

Spells discussed in this first podcast come from the J.K. Rowling books, movies, and video games: Accio, Alohamora, Expecto Patronum, Wingardium Leviosa, Bombarda, Lumos, Arania Exumai, Carpe Retractum, Glacius, and Incendio.

Clay, Noelle, and Anne introduce listeners to the fine art of sleeping in class.

As expert observers of the pastime among their seventh grade peers, they reveal time-honored tricks of the quick classroom nap.

Artifacts dating from 100 – 1500 AD can be found in this Middle East Museum podcast.

Seventh grade students constructed models of a famous building or object from their studies of the culture and civilizations of North Africa and the Middle East.

Each model is introduced and explained by the student or students who created it.