Media

"Dad, what's mee-dee-ya?"

"Well, my little lamb, it's a form of communication, and so it can be a video, a slideshow,
a radio interview, a newspaper article - or a showcase of scholars' pictures...."

Learning Academy 2022
Another Successful Summer Run ... in spite of COVID.
Browse Tania's Slideshows below, starting with Reading Class and
ending with ... just Having Fun!
Scroll beyond the slideshows to see the Reading Class Video
and the Writing Class Photo Journal. Enjoy!

The Reading Class' Final Video - the Mortimer Play

And from the Writing Class, we have the Writing Class Photo Journal

This is the "published" Photo Journal the Writing Class created; it is designed to tell the story of the days at the Academy, one photo per day. The students then layered on bits and pieces of writing they did during the class including jigsaw stories, "treasure box" and acrostic poems, 100-word narratives, and... not too much from the narrative and persuasive essays we focused on the most - those did not lend themselves to picturesque journals quite as well.

Watch Summer 2021 Learning Academy in Action below!

VIDEOS of SUMMER LEARNING ACADEMY 2021
(Normally LA has an in-person Closing Ceremony, but with COVID this year, there were videos instead.)

Video 1: The Reading Class Puts on a Play!

Video 2: English Language Development Class Poetry Reading

Video 3: Writing Class Sock Puppet Show

Videos 4-8: Math Class Teams Engineer Earthquake-Resistant Buildings

Team Christopher

Team Teletubby

Team BM Inc

Team Drippy Drip Snowman

Team JI Industries

BASIC on the radio with Literacy for All!

Watch the Literacy for All Youtube video below, in which Jose Cruz, the executive for the San Diego Council on Literacy (who comes to BASIC's Golf Tournament) interviews Joann Stang, a BASIC board member, about Learning Academy and BASIC.
This is 20-minute interview takes 30 minutes of show time with ads (warning in advance).