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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Odysseus and the homeschooler
I just got this via email. It's tool cool not to share.
Emily Salva, age 7, of Franklin, TN, is a homeschooled student. She was studying Greek mythology this year. She wound up making this short video for part of a presentation:
She’s responsible for all the graphics and the narration. Emily is seven years old.
This video short was selected to be screened at the 2008 Nashville Film Festival. (I thought this was kind of a big deal, especially since the video that Emily’s Dad entered got turned down.)
Just about all of the entries in this festival were made by adults. No one else even close to her age had an entry in this festival.
Along with being on the local television news, she also got some attention in some area papers.
Labels: Gifted, homeschool, Tennessee
Monday, July 16, 2007
Homeschooled Filmmaker: 'One word' is enough
The film can be viewed here.
PIKEVILLE, Tenn. — Chelsea Moore cannot repress her inclination to smile, to show off her pearly whites.
She is just that kind of a gal. Her glass is always half full.
"Chelsea has always been an optimistic child," noted her mother, Pamela.
But in the past two months, the home-schooled rising senior with shoulder-length brown hair has been swimming in a pond of good fortune. Late last month the 17-year-old was honored in New York City as one of nine winners of an international filmmaking contest for 16- to 25-year-olds. Read more...
Labels: Tennessee
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Homeschooling draws many families
Home schooling has been the only choice for the Hankes family for a number of reasons.
It has allowed Christine Hankes and her husband to individualize their 17-year-old daughter Kaydee's work to her learning style, allowed Kaydee to work at her own pace and brought the entire family together.
'In a family atmosphere of learning, the whole family is involved. Everybody is learning, so the conversation around the dinner table enforces that knowledge,' Christine Hankes said. Read more...
Labels: homeschool, Tennessee
