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Dave Komatsu
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Sep 09, 2003 13:31 PDT
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MOHS Alumni News
+- In our September Issue -+
Welcome Message
Mene Notes
Reunion Information
Special: Eager to learn
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Welcome Message
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Alumni News is back after a brief summer break. Fall is
upon us and a new school year has begun. Hawaii is currently
in the midst of a strike by TheBUS. Seems almost weird to
fight through traffic and not see any busses on the road.
On September 19 Moanalua will welcome its alumni back for
their homecoming football game versus Radford. Yup we are
taking on our rivals and hopefully it will be a good game.
Come out and support Moanalua as they try to get their
first win of the season against Radford.
Joining the Alumni Association is easier than ever and your
membership dues help fund newsletters like this as well as our
print publication to members, a scholarship for a graduating
senior and help our ability to help classes with their reunions.
And its only $10. If you haven't yet joined or renewed please
consider it. You either print the form at the end of this mail,
visit and print membership PDF file or instantly pay using our
PayPal option. Each member increases the good the alumni
association can do.
Until next month...
-----> Dave
Class of 1987
<http://www.global-hawaii.com/davek>
Mene Notes
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Well-earned congratulations go to Berny Lai (c/o 77) of the Seattle
Sheraton for earning her key. She is now Seattle’s newest member of
Les Clefs d’Or USA – International Concierge Association.
Around the world these members are the top professionals in their
field
Moanalua Alumni Association meeting third Wednesday of each
month. Come check it out 7:15 Administration building
The Moanalua Alumni Association $500 scholarship was awarded
to Michelle Fujii. Michelle will attend Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles.
Deanna Sears (C/O 1985) celebrating the birth of a baby boy,
Nicolas on July 10, 2003. Deanna and family reside in Austin
Texas.
Got married? Tell the world.
Birth, Award, Announcement?
Send submissions to <david_k-@yahoo.com>
Reunion Information:
Class of 1998, 1988, 1983, 1978, 1973
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Are you on the reunion planning committe. If so contact
us. Thanks
Class of 1983 - 20th Year Reunion
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Stag Night @ Rumours Nightclub (Ala Moana Hotel)
Friday September 19th, 2003
7:30pm -11pm
$5 advance/$10 at the door
Moanalua H.S. Class of 1983 20th Year Reunion
Saturday September 20th, 2003
Ihilani Resort and Spa at Ko Olina
6pm - 11:30pm
$50/person (includes a sumptuous buffet created by '83
Alumni Randall Ishizu, Executive Chef @ Ihilani).
For those interested in staying @ the Ihilani, Randall is also
working on a group rate of approximately $170 per room.
Family Day Picnic
September 21st 2003
11am-2:30pm
Ihilani Lagoon 1
(Beach closest to hotel)
Water and juice provided
Bentos and Reunion T- Shirts for sale (price TBA)
Liza set up this hotmail address for any correspondence regarding the
reunion:
<classof-@hotmail.com>
Aloha and Mahalo,
Lester Gantan
for
Liza Shigeta
Craig Hirasaki
Nathan Gudoy
Class of 1993 - 10th Year Reunion
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Friday August 15, 2003 5pm - 10pm Club Night @ Oceans Club
Saturday August 16, 2003 5pm - 9pm Dinner @ Kapono's
Sunday AUgust 17, 203 tentative Picnic
For more info go to http://www.mohs1993.org/
Class of 1992
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Aloha Class of 1992. This is Laverne Pitre-Makilan (Lovey),
We are trying to get toghter our class reunion and we are also
looking for others to volunteer with our committee to help make
it happen. We are also looking for addresses and phone numbers
of classmates of 1992.
please contact me at
pu-@yahoo.com
Reunion classes submit you reunion information today.
Reunion Help
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Just a reminder out there to alumni of all classes (especially
class of 1991 and 1976. When planning your reunion make sure
to check with the Alumni Association. We can help you:
- E-mail reunion information in Alumni News
- Post reunion information on the Alumni Web Site
- Provide you with names and address of Alumni members
- Provide you a class list of names and address (if on record)
- Save you money on Postal mailing by using our BULK MAIL license
- Maybe even discount hotel stays for mainland classmates
Just contact me at dav-@yahoo.com for more information.
Special to Alumni News
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Eager to Learn
by Diane Curtis (of the George Lucas Educational Foundation)
And, the winner is ... Moanalua High School!
The place: Honolulu, Hawaii. The contest: the 2003 Hawaii Student Film
Festival. The winners: Moanalua freshmen Bao Jun Lei, Mari Maeda, and
Gerald Rojo II, who researched, videotaped, and edited a short
documentary on child labor as part of their work in an integrated
studies/multimedia program at Moanalua.
The prize: The project (which had already earned two 'A' grades from
teacher Lynne Sueoka for the students -- one each in social studies
and media communications) brought acclaim to the young filmmakers
and their school from people throughout the state who judged the
videos or otherwise took part in the festival. And the acclaim came
after the disappointment of taking no prizes in the National History
Day competition, the event for which they initially produced the video.
The difference in reception of the same product reinforced a valuable
lesson: losing a competition does not mean a work is mediocre.
Different audiences look for different things.
Sueoka encourages her budding cineastes to share their schoolwork
outside the classroom and to enter contests. "I want to give my
students the experience of competing with the best - akin to sports
teams who come up against worthy opponents where, in a hard-played
game, everyone is, indeed, a winner," she says.
"We did try harder because we wanted to win," concurs Bao, a
straight-A student whose dream is to become a video producer,
filmmaker, or computer networker. "But we're thinking next year
we can do it even better."
Natasia Gascon, a student who put together a Web package on
states' rights for the National History Day competition, agrees
that an outside audience is a big motivator. "Since we're going
to be presenting this to professional judges, historians, and a
big audience, it kind of has an impact on our quality of work,"
says Natasia. "We want to make sure they're impressed with what
we're presenting."
Natasia and Bao are two of 55 students in the two-year-old
integrated language arts/multimedia, social studies/multimedia
program at Moanalua High, a sprawling, 2,000-student concrete
complex seven miles northwest of Waikiki with a view of Pearl
Harbor and the blue Pacific. Producing high school graduates
able to meet the challenges of an ever-changing technological
world is just one of the goals of the program. It also aims to
eliminate the anonymity of large high schools, teach students
to think for themselves, and give them the skills to present
their knowledge in new ways.
The integrated program is an offshoot of Moanalua's Media
Communications and Technology Learning Center, dubbed MeneMac
for the school's mascot. Drama and communications teacher Dan
Hale was sold on the idea of integrating core curriculum with
multimedia when he saw the results with lackluster students.
"All of a sudden their achievement started going way up and they
got real interested in the class," Hale says. "And we thought,
'Hey, let's try and reproduce this maybe on a bigger level.'"
Sueoka's 9th- and 10th-grade integrated classes are the result.
Lectures are down to a precious few. Instead, students mostly do
their own research or lead their own discussions, including ones
on class listservs. When the class read To Kill a Mockingbird,
Sueoka briefly guided the discussion. Then the projects related
to the beloved Harper Lee novel began, which included not only
multimedia but crossed over into social studies and civics as well.
Students held a mock trial, which they videotaped. They were also
assigned to follow up on the theme of injustice by finding examples
closer to home, and by creating videos. Bao did his on why students
aren't allowed into R-rated movies. Gerald did his on unfair grading
policies. Other topics included handicapped parking spaces and
discrimination towards new immigrants by longer-term immigrants.
In a study of metaphors in poetry, the students were asked to write
about metaphors in five poems and create a Web site to hold their
work. Then they were to use them in a video about their own identities.
Bao, who came to the United States from China when he was one year
old, compared himself to a Jack-in-the-Box. His video shows a puppet
bursting out of a box as "Pop Goes the Weasel" plays. In the next
shot with the same music, Bao himself pops out of a box and then
goes running through the campus. "Most people say that Bao is a
wild and crazy kid," the wild and crazy kid says in a voiceover.
"Bao is the one who's always everywhere, and that's why he's like a
Jack-in-the-Box."
Students also wrote metaphorical poems. Rojo's "steed" was his bright
red scooter. Online student portfolios (Gerald's, Natasia's, Mari's,
Bao's,) are the primary means of assessment. The students also must
provide examples of work that show they meet the six "learner
outcomes" required of all Hawaii students: be responsible for
one's own learning; understand that it is essential for human beings
to work together; be involved in complex thinking and problem
solving; recognize and produce quality performance and quality
products; communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for
a variety of purposes, and use a variety of technologies
effectively and ethically.
Sueoka views the technology as adding a critical element to the
academic program, partly because it forces students to communicate
in a different way -- a way that requires them to really know
the material. "It may be by having a voiceover. It may be by
having a video clip. It may be by the provocative music they use
in the background. And I feel when that happens, they have truly
taken this information and rather than just given back in a term
paper, they've made it their own," she says.
Sueoka also sees great benefits -- academic and social -- in
the smaller school-within-a-school, where she has the same students
for three periods a day. "If you have them more often, and you have
them for a longer period of time, you really then have the time to
truly know them," says Sueoka.
Her classes do feel like a family affair. There is joshing and chatter
that may qualify as chaos to traditionalists, but the good-humored
banter is in the context of creating something together, hashing out
ideas, discarding what doesn't work and trying something else, and
dividing work equitably and with an eye toward individual talents.
There also is a good amount of quiet, focused concentration,
especially as deadlines close in.
"When you talk about learning styles and diverse learners, technology
does give students multiple ways to show whatever goals you have set,"
says Sueoka.
Moanalua Principal Darrel Galera notes, however, that technology
is a means to an end. "We're not leading with the technology tools,"
he says. "We are really starting with what is the learning process
all about. We think that's the secret."
Whatever the philosophy behind the technology, Natasia knows she
likes it. "The only reason I'm interested in school now is [because of]
this program."
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The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating
foundation that documents and disseminates models of the most innovative
practices in our nation's K-12 schools. We serve this mission through
the creation of media -- from films, books, and newsletters, to
CD-ROMS.
Our Web site contains all of our multimedia content published since
1997.
To learn more about GLEF or see additional information on how Moanlua
uses technology in language classes and a profile on Lynne Sueoka
vist their website at http//www.glef.org.
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The 2003 Moanalua Alumni Calendar
August 8 : Tentative Alumni Day
August 15-17 : Class of 1993 Reunion
September 9 : Moanalua Alumni Association Meeting
September 19 : Homecoming vs Radford
September 19-21 : Class of 1983 Reunion
October 15 : Moanalua Alumni Association Meeting
November 19 : Moanalua Alumni Association Meeting
December 17 : Moanalua Alumni Association Meeting
Please e-mail any dates of reunions or other events to
<david_k-@yahoo.com>. Check the web page for additional dates.
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