‘I Am What I Learn’ Video Highlight

This video is very good (you can watch them all here). It tells you that is is good to be diverse (for example, learning more then two languages). Without an education you can' t get a very good job. This girl teaches us that you have to get a good education and also help the environment.

This video is very moving. It must of taken plenty of work making a song and a great video. This video was made by Kevin Phu at Watertown High School in Massachusetts. He tells us the you have to work hard to get somewhere.

Troy Simon's story is very touching. It tells you that even if you hit rock bottom you can still come back to the top. When life gets hard to must try and keep trying till you reach the best that you can get. This story tells people that you should never give up.

I Am What I Learn Contest, What Should Hillwood Do? Send Us Your Ideas

These are ideas the we may put on our "I Am What I Learn" video. One idea is we should talk about our family, what we learned and how it made us who we are, and friends.

My family helped me learn how to behave and my friends have taught me to get along with each other. My education has made me who I am because when I started gymnastics I wasn't very good, but still today I'm not very good but I still learned.When I started soccer I was fine, but my team wasn't very good we were all picking on our soccer jersey. My coach was awful she did'nt really do anyting to help, I barely learned anything.The next year I went to a much better coach and I learned much more. Well...those are my experiences.

Please put your answers to what inspires you to learn in the suggestion box on the shelf by the school's front door.

Photo credit: Irene X.

'I Am What I Learn' Contest

I'm sure you've heard about President Barack Obama's Education Speech on Tuesday, September 8. Obama spoke about how learning will lead you where you will be someday.

Just recently, Secretary Arne Duncan, spoke about a new 'I Am What I Learn' video project. The U.S. Department of Education are encouraging kids 13 years or older to enter in this contest. For this contest, you videotape yourself and you talk about why education is important right now and how it will help you to fulfill your dreams. The video should be under two minutes.

How to Enter the ‘I am What I Learn’ Contest

Student Assignment:
Irene X.
The US Department of Education launched the "I Am What I Learn" 2-minute video contest for students 13 years and older on YouTube. Three winners will receive $1,000. (The above video does not work. After it went live, the government pulled it for further review. Apparently, there may be some issues about the amount of data that will need to be collected. Still, we proceed with assignment)

Click around on the government's "I Am What I Learn" website, if it is working. You may also access a governmental document to teachers on Google Docs. Do not take time to read the entire document. Rather, scroll down to "Video Project" and use that information in your story.

Tell Herald readers about the contest (remember the five W's). Also, write about how schools can enter and include how Hillwood might go about submitting entries. (Include information from the "How to Qualify" section of the website's frontdoor.)

Answer the five W’s of any good news story. Then include one or two good examples of how what Hillwood students could do. Then, make a call to action — ask that people leave video ideas for Hillwood in the comment section of your post.

• Who:
• What:
• When:
• Where:
• Why:

Irene, after you write your story, use the Flip video camera to film a brief interview about the contest. Work with Zack O. to create three to five questions about the contest. At the end, make a call for ideas to your audience — the Hillwood community — for ideas about how the school can participate in this contest. Should, perhaps, the entire school submit a video? Or should the upper-graders do something? Or should each upper-grader student make his or her own?

Until the contest's entry deadline, October 20, you will help lead Hillwood's effort in making and collecting these videos.