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between Vikings and monks. “It was so much fun,” said student Laurel Carter. “We did a table talk seeing the monks’ point of view and the Vikings’ point of view, and we got to explore this in a way that we wouldn’t normally get to do.” Maggie Reed, a seventh-grader who was also part of the Vikings project, noted that she liked having the opportunity to discover new skills. “It’s been fun to get to know the people in our class better as we use the equipment and work together to figure things out,” she said. For seventh-grader Sam Pastor, the podcast room provided a chance to push out of his comfort zone. “I was the person who did all of the work on the soundboard,” he said, noting that this role made him the “podcast engineer.” “It looks complicated to use, but it’s very easy and it’s fun to do.”
On a stretch of preser ved farmland in Elizabethtown, transformation happens every d ay at a s pace that o ffers reconnection - with the land, with one another and with the essential act of growing food. This is Wittel Farm, a nonprofit on 85 acres of land with a long history of care, now being reimagined as a place where food, community and environmental stewardship meet. Records date the property to the mid-1700s, and long before that it was cared for by the Susquehannock people. In the 1980s, Chuck and Katie Wittel placed the property into a land trust, gifting it to the Lutheran Camping Corporation. While not much was produced at the farm for many years, that changed in 2016, when the farm’s current manager, the Rev. Matt Lenahan, began the Growing Project, a partnership between the Lutheran Camping Corp., the Lower Susquehanna Synod and Hunger-Free Lancaster County. L enahan, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Akron, grew up on a large commercial farm in New York and once thought he would never farm again after entering ministry. His thinking shifted as he became more aware of food insecurity and the fragility of modern food systems. “I really star ted to think about the food system and how food-dependent we are because so few of us are actually participating in the food production,” he said. “We’ve really stepped
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earing headphones and speaking into microp h o n e s , s t u d e n t s at Manheim Central Middle School are putting their knowledge to work while building real-world skills. A new podcast room lets them work with professional equipment while exploring their lessons in creative, hands-on ways. For three years, the district has used podcasting equipment acquired through a grant from MCFEE, the Manheim Central Foundation for Educational Enrichment. Those funds provided mobile carts for use at all schools in the district. “This is all what professional podcasters use,” said Liz Lubeskie, secondary coordinator of online learning and technology integration. “We wanted to make sure that
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the kids’ experience was as close to what a real podcaster’s experience would be.” Students recorded wherever they could - from auditoriums to stairwells - editing out background noise later. When Lubeskie moved her office this year, she saw an opportunity to turn an unused adjacent room in the middle school into a podcast space. The room was outfitted with soundproofing, and Abobe editing software further reduced background noise. During professional development days, Lubeskie trained teachers on how to use the equipment. They were eager to get started with their classes, she said, developing projects that could use the space. Seventh-graders recently used the podcast room to explore a history lesson about skirmishes
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