Skype

The students in Debi Ellman’s creative writing elective got some expert advice on screenwriting from Brad Falchuk ’89, an executive producer and co-creator of Glee, one of this year’s most successful new TV shows.
To help them understand how a story makes the leap from the page to the screen, Brad sent the class the script [...]

This year, Global History and Social Studies Chair Kader Adjou’s classes have participated in Skype video conversations with students in Afghanistan, Israel, and now South Korea.
On Thursday, March 11, Beaver students talked with students at Taegu Foreign Language High School in Seoul, South Korea. The conversation touched on South Korean perspectives on North Korea, U.S. presence in South Korea, [...]

Students in the upper school history elective “Political and Social Changes” held a Skype discussion with four Israeli students and their teacher on February 11. The Israeli group is from the Ironi Hey High School in Haifa, a public high school enrolling 1600 students from grades 7 to 12.
Organized by Beaver’s Kader Adjout (Global History [...]

Global History and Social Studies Department Chair Kader Adjout has been using technology in his Middle East senior elective to connect his class with students from Afghanistan. He uses a private social network (a Ning) to work with teachers and students in Afghanistan, and his students post to a blog which receives responses from the [...]