Teachers at our January 2010 educator workshop practice photography for their digital story. Click the image to watch the short digital story they made!

DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THE CLASSROOM:
A one-day workshop for educators

Bring the power of digital storytelling into your classroom! Educators are invited to learn the basics of teaching their students how to produce digital stories about their lives, communities and common global issues, and then share them with their peers around the world (we focus mostly on middle and high school).

Participants will learn how to access Bridges’ youth-produced digital stories and curriculum guides, many in Spanish as well as English, to introduce their students to the cultures and communities of their peers in Bridges’ network of partner classrooms in Peru, Guatemala, India and South Africa. This workshop will walk educators through the Bridges classroom curriculum, including student activities for cultural identity and values exploration and reflection, photography, script writing, research, recording audio and multimedia digital story production.

The workshop will include:

• Simple ways to incorporate digital storytelling in your classroom.
• How to assemble small student teams and assign production roles.
• How to assess student work related to digital storytelling.
• Tips for classroom management when teaching digital storytelling.
• How to work with your school’s technology representative to make the best use of available technology.
• Practice assembling a digital story using youth-produced media, with user-friendly Windows Movie Maker (available on Seattle Public School computers).
• How to integrate digital storytelling into a wide array of classroom curricula including geography, social studies, science, technology, writing, photography, Spanish, ESL, and more.
• You do not need to be technology savvy to take this workshop.

Participants will receive:

• Clock hours (Seattle Public School teachers.)
• The Bridges to Understanding Digital Storytelling in the Classroom curriculum.

Upcoming workshops:
Seattle, WA, USA: January 8, 2011 FULL!
Registration has closed for our January 8 workshop. If there is enough interest, we will schedule a second January workshop for Saturday January 22. If you are interested in a January 22 workshop, please email Joyce McClure, Executive Director, at joyce@bridges2understanding.org. Please indicate you are interested in the Jan. 22 workshop date, and provide your complete contact information including phone number and school name. Thank you!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for this educator's workshop using Google checkout.

Fee: $175.
Time: 8:45 am to 5:00 pm
Location:
Seattle, WA workshops are held either at our office in Fremont or at the John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence.
Registration deadline: Seven (7) days prior to workshop

Limited full and partial scholarships are available.
CLICK HERE for the Scholarship Application.

If you would like to register for the workshop by phone, please call 001 (206) 925-5301. If leaving a message, please provide your name, workshop date, number of attendees included in your registration, and your address, email and phone number, so we can get back to you as soon as possible to get your payment information and confirm your registration.

Please note: A minimum of six participants is required. If the minimum enrollment requirement is not met by the registraton deadline, the workshop will need to be rescheduled.