Moving Voices:

International Digifilms for Education and Awareness

US Teacher Certification Available

The vision for Moving Voices is simple. Students around the world will use the power of digital films to move and inform far-flung audiences. The films will be rich, authentic resources for learning. They will contribute to increased understanding of our neighbors in our evermore interdependent world.

You will learn the skills for making digital movies in a secure, supportive, collaborative and highly interactive online environment with educators around the world

Moving Voices is a course to help you help your students to make original films for the Web. Along with the other participating teachers, you'll be exploring how the filmmaking process can enrich teaching and learning in your classroom. Essentially, the course is divided into four weeks of film planning and four weeks of film production. We

have developed a structure of weekly step-by-step activities. How closely you choose to follow these week-to-week activities depends upon your experience and confidence. Throughout the course, we will be asking for your input and trying our best to make the course as flexible as possible.

Course Goals

• Promote socio-cultural awareness through exchange of digital video clips on the themes, “what do we want the world to know about our school?” "Mentoring" and "Water Ecology"
• Develop critical thinking, video literacy, time management, decision making and basic film making skills
• Identify the ways filmmaking, in combination with online collaboration, can support project-based learning and help you and your students relate skills acquired to state/local/national standards in language arts, second language acquisition, social studies, and 21st century literacy skills (including use of ICTs and global cultural awareness)
• Help you manage your classrooms during online collaboration
• Identify ways to involve your students with the community as the video films are created and completed
• Enable you and your students to take pride in your finished films as culturally rich, authoritative,and entertaining original work that will
• enjoyed and valued by worldwide audiences for years, if not decades, to come.
• Establish recommended approaches for adding digital documentary filmmaking to iEARN's projects and programs.
• Make this guidance available for educators inside and outside of iEARN.

What do you need to participate in the course?

• Basic word processing, Internet and e-mailing skills
• Reliable access to a computer and Internet
• Availability to commit at least 5 hours a week to course activities
• A classroom/students whom you will be working with during the course period
• Working knowledge of English
• You will need your own digital videocamera

How does the online course work?

The course is asynchronous. This means you will work in your own time from home or school to complete weekly assignments. You will sign onto a website to participate in the course.

The course is very interactive and communication is continuous during the course period. You will be 30 participants and two facilitators. You will communicate with one another in the iEARN discussion forums to discuss assignment and readings.

You can expect frequent feedback from your facilitators and participants throughout the course period.

The course is divided into eight modules (one lesson per week) with readings, discussions, individual and group assignments. Lessons and assignments take you step-by-step through the process of integrating the digital film-making process into your curriculum.

How much time does this involve?

You can expect to commit 4-5 hours a week for a course.

Participants who successfully complete all the course requirements will receive a certificate from iEARN-USA with recognition as an iEARN Master Teacher

Course registration

The course is limited to 25 participants. Participants will be selected on a rolling basis as they met the criteria for the course.

Course fees

US Teachers

iEARN’s cost per course is $600; however, with grant support we are able to offer the courses at the following reduced rates:

• $360 fee for non-members
  $260 fee for members
• + Additional $100 for New York City Teachers seeking P credit.

(see bottom of page for more info about certification and continuing education credit options)

International Teachers

iEARN’s cost per course is $600; however, with grant support we are able to offer the courses at the reduced rate of

• $100 per course

Scholarships for International Participants

A limited number of course scholarships are available for non-US participants. Participants must complete the course. We reserve scholarship spaces to have diversity from different regions of the world. Please inquire upon registration.
Scholarship Requirements:

The cost per course is USD $600 but due to grant support we are been able to offer full scholarships to many teachers.

To receive a scholarship you

• Must commit to complete the course for certification as an iEARN Master Teacher
  • Assist country coordinators with trainings where possible and share knowledge learnt in the course with educators in your school or region where possible.

Refund/Cancellation policy
iEARN will issue a 50% refund for cancelled course registrations up until the end of the first week of course instruction.

For more information write to onlinepd@us.iearn.org

................................................................

* ** US Teacher Certification

• New York City Department of Education teachers earn 3P credits per course.
• Rhode Island Department of Education teachers earn 40-45 contact hours for completing this course
• Washington State Department of Education teachers earn 45 clock hours for this course
• Wyoming State Department of Education teachers earn 3 hours of in-service
• Delaware State teachers who take an iEARN course through participation in approved International Education Cluster will earn a 2% Professional Development Cluster Credit