Moving up the clock at CKDU!

Got an e-mail with news that we're off the graveyard shift in Hali - now the children can get to bed at a decent hour...(support your local indy radio station - tune in!)

Hi,
Just a note to say that CKDU is now rebroadcasting Radio Free School episodes in prime time (!) at 5:00 pm on Wednesdays.
It's a fun show!
Candace

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Candace Mooers
Spoken Word Coordinator

CKDU 88.1 FM
6136 University Ave. 4th Floor
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4J2 Canada

Tel: (902) 494-2585
Web: www.ckdu.ca

IT'S FUN TO VISIT THE CBC

I was interviewed for 'Sounds like Canada' CBC radio one yesterday. We went to Toronto, R, B and M and I. It wasn't a very long interview-nor was it even really an interview. More like a conversation. There was Kate Cayley (a radio free school guest) of Stranger Theatre and Amy MacKay author of the Birth House, me and the host Kevin Sylvester. We talked about unschooling.

After that I joined the rest of the radio free school gang in the CBC museum. Talk about an educational experience. They have displays that include a fine collection of microphones (famous singers like Joni Mitchell and Ian and Sylvia sang into some of them); there are interactive video screens that bring up various clips of past CBC tv shows and news from the past. Historical events, the Olympics, the Vietnam war.. that the CBC covered. R stood gazing at the model of the Friendly Giant's castle, transfixed by the gentle theme music and the tiny rocking chairs.

There was also a display showcasing all sorts of apparatus they would use to create sound effects on the radio, including a prison door! One interesting contraption was made of wood with a handle to it and a piece of canvas material. When you turn the handle the sound that comes out of it is like this great wind blowing about.

We also stopped at the CBC theatre and watched a short video- i forget the name but it was all about high heeled shoes and the history behind that. It was interesting to learn that in the 17th-18th century only the members of Louis XIV court were permitted to wear high heeled shoes with red heels. It was the sign of the nobility! Now high heeled shoes have evolved into a sex symbol. We learned that the average North American woman has about 30 pairs of shoes and that most women love high heeled shoes. I guess that shows that I'm well below average!!

Later we stopped at 401 Richmond where we explored the galleries, a hat shoppe and a roof top garden. Be u t full!!

Topped off the day with a trip to the St. Lawrence Market before grabbing the GO train home.

The show is supposed to air on Wednesday, June 27, 10 am on 99.1 fm (across Canada!)

bee

reading radio

This week's show is up early at radio4all.net for you to download.

The show is basically a random sampling of what some radio free schoolers are reading these days.

books reviewed - Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stephenson
- Heat, George Monbiot
and more...

music - Shit from an old Notebook, the Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

Interview with Home Education Magazine Mary Nix

I was interviewed about Radio Free School by Mary Nix of Home Education Magazine in their 'Support Group News Home Page'

We are the June Highlight. Yay!

Thanks Mary.To read the interview please go to;

www.homeedmag.com/blogs/groupnews/ - 102k - 16 Jun 2007

"Trees are the kindest things I know"

Trees are the kindest things I know,... Harry Behn


Last Saturday, B and I participated in “Trees Count.’ It’s a project that inventories trees in our local community. We met at the Dundas Drive in Park on a bright sunny morning and were briefed up as to what to look at in a tree to see how healthy it is.
So, setting out in teams we were given a section of trees where we took notes in a chart provided for that purpose. First of all what species (we had blue fir tree, an oak some maples, a walnut). We had to measure the stem the circumference, the height of the crown the height of the tree the drip line ( the width of the crown). Then onto what the stem look like; did it have scars? Cracks? Did it have conks (mushrooms)? What about the branches? Any dead? Broken? And the foliage? Was it yellowish? Was there defoliation? Where is the tree; is it next to a structure, wires overhead? Too close to another tree?
I really learnt a lot and B says she did too although it was a bit boring for her. We were all learning so it was hard to include her too. Also she was the only representative of Tree Friends there; so no kids of her age. But hopefully we can get all the tree friends together for another go at it in the coming weeks. Still she said she learnt a lot too- and on the way home we were examining the trees along the way and identifying trees that were sick. We were appalled at the gypsy moth caterpillars creeping all over the trees. A real infestation! Disgusting.