Podcast Reflection #10: Celebrate Kansas Voices

This was an interview that Kevin Honeycutt had last year with my DED technology teacher, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, at Kansas State University. This "event" started about 4 years ago now in Oklahoma and we are just beginning in Kansas. Last year they held a couple of workshops to introduce this to teachers to spread the word and teach them how to create their own projects in and/or out of the classroom. They have trained over 500 teachers to help tell the story of Kansas History with our own voices. You can use any kind of story that you feel is historical whether it is personal/within the family, about your town, something you remember growing up, something that happened such as September 11, etc. The options are endless and up to your creativity. The workshop costs $250 to attend which covers the cost to have the trainers come up or you could pay an additional fee which would then allow you to receive all the additional resources such as the cameras you would use to record an interview, etc. You can go to the Celebrate Kansas Voices website to sign up and learn anything and everything about the project. This project can be done in any classroom for any grade level and any subject. There are no boundaries. Please spread the word of this project. I am in the middle of mine right now, and it is so interesting. I'm finding out more than I could have dreamed I would!