GVE School News and the 2014 PETE&C Pennsylvania Education

Technology Expo & Conference

Four fifth graders take on hundreds of educators, administrators, and vendors.

GVE School News• School News allows students & staff to stay connected and up to

date on all of the exciting things going on here at GVES.

• School News also highlights the special achievements of students throughout the year.

• Student reporters are provided the chance to vote on which segments they would like to write and report. Students are paired with a different partner and segment each week.

• Student editors review and edit each week’s clips using iMovie.

What We Cover• School News covers all of the exciting happenings and

achievements at GVES.

• We report on unique events from week to week like Read Across America Week, Jump Rope for Heart, and No Name Calling Week.

• School News also has several recurring segments that our audience looks forward to each week. These usually include Weekly Updates, School News Jokes, Sports Report, Fun Facts, Books Review, Word of the Week, and Green Team Tips.

Our Four ReportersJeanine AlberoWill Denning

Preetika Guruprasad

Ryan Monachello

The Beginning of Our Journey• In late October we were made aware that

PASBO was looking for students to “cover” the PETE&C events.

• In mid January Keith Grimm, our PASBO contact, notified us that our application was accepted.

• In early February we selected our reporters and gathered for our first brainstorming sessions.

The Planning Stage• We held two “working lunches.”

• Our first meeting’s agenda included:o Explain to the reporters what PASBO wanted us to

accomplish by the end of our visito Watch sample videos from last year’s PETE&Co Brainstorm possible questionso Break into two reporting teams

• Our second meeting’s agenda included:o Reviewing and finalizing our interview sheetso Hold mock interviews

The Big DayFebruary 10th, 2014

• Arrived at GVES at 6:20 AM!

• Departed for Hershey Lodge at 6:30.

• Arrived at our destination right around 8:00.

Heading up to Hershey

Hershey, Here We Come

● Entrance to the Hershey Lodge.

● Sign in process:○ Met Keith○ Unpacked○ Got our badges○ We got the “key”

Keynote Speaker

• Kevin Honeycutt used to be a teacher in a school in Kansas.

• Kevin Honeycutt had a funny presentation including the “Charlie bit my finger” video.

• He explained Google Sketchup. You could make a house and design it the way you want it to look.

• Kevin Honeycutt’s main message was to tell teachers to use more exciting technology in their classrooms.

Keynote SpeakerHere we are after our

interview with Kevin Honeycutt.

We each asked him one question for him to answer.

We asked him about encouraging teachers to use technology and new technology he was excited about.

Keynote Speaker

Interviews with Conference AttendeesWe broke into two teams and interviewed some of these people:

• principals

• teachers

• technology directors

• security guards

• superintendents

Interviews with Conference Attendees

We came up with several possible questions to ask each interviewee. Some of the questions included:

• How did you hear about PETE & C?

• Why do you like coming to the PETE & C conference?

• How does your district distribute technology?

• Why is technology important in student learning?

We allowed each interviewee to choose the questions that he/she was asked.

Putting It All Together• After three hours of working in the

field we went to our conference room.

• Next, we took the footage from the iPads and transferred them to the two Macs.

• Then we had to select the clips we wanted to use for our final presentation.o This process took about two and a half hours.o Most of the editing was done by the reporters.

Putting All the Pieces Together

Fun or Funny Moments!• This was in the

lobby lounge.

• I’m thinking he likes hockey.

Fun or Funny Moments!

• Here we are relaxing after a long day’s work.

• We may be young, but we can have coffee!

• Just kidding! It’s hot chocolate!

Fun or Funny Moments!• Guess who we

found!

• The Reeses guy confirmed that technology is VERY important!

Fun or Funny Moments!• Lets play some

basketball!

• Will won a beach chair!

• At the expo, people were displaying their products.

Now we proudly present...

GVE School News presentation on PETE&C 2014

Thank you for being a great audience!

Preetika Guruprasad, Will Denning, Jeanine Albero, and Ryan Monachello