Rimma Zhukova, iEARN Russia, Local History Project, Adobe Youth Voices
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2. The International Education and Resource Network
www.iearn.org
3. is a Network of educators and students from over 25,000
schools and youth organizations of 1 million students, aged 5-19 in
over 125 countries
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iEARN facilitates
teacher& student-
directed
collaborative
project work
5.
iEARN demonstrates that online education can enhance teaching
and learning and improve the quality of life on the planet.
6. iEARN empowers Professional Development opportunity
Workshops
Online Courses
Annual Conference
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8. History Quotes
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem
with events as verses. - Charles Angoff
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
- Pearl Buck
If we forget our history, we lose the tight contact with
ancient roots . - Tomas Jefferson
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce
it to the present. - David Thelen
9. Local history
is the study of history in a geographically local context and
it often concentrates on the local community . It incorporates
cultural and social aspects of history. (Wikipedia).
is a story of people and places over time. It aims to trace the
origin and growth and sometimes the decay of a local
community.
10. Description of the project The Local History Project is a
teacher&student directed collaborative project work in which
students research the history of their communities and share their
findings with their global peers.
11. The goal of the project
To enhance awareness of the significance of local history to
students present lives.
To develop research skills.
To form and develop academic skills, thinking, reasoning,
teamwork skills.
To form and develop key foreign language competences and
skills.
To develop ICT skills
12. The Local History Project
Project classroom activities:
e-mail exchange; the Local History Project forum; letters,
diaries and essay writing, drawing pictures and collecting photos
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Expected outcomes/products: creating school sites; publishing
booklets; making Power Point presentations and blogs.
Project language(s): any; English as the language of
international communication
13. The Local History Project Coordinators of the project are
Shukufa Najafova, Azerbaijan, Rimma Zhukova, Russia and Scott
Parker, USA In the local History Project students research the
history of their own town or area and post their findings on an
iEARN on-line forum (newsgroup). Students practice research skills
(interviews, letters, diaries and books) and gain an understanding
of the significance of local history to their present lives.
14. iEARN is a tool to enhance teaching through online
Professional Development courses.
15. ADOBE YOUTH VOICES online course is one of numerous courses
offered by iEARN
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is a global project that empowers youth worldwide to comment on
their world using multimedia and digital tools to communicate and
share their ideas, create awareness, take positive action and
effect change, develops critical 21 st century skills.
17. Create with purpose AYV program participating countries are
Uganda, Belarus, Romania, Oman, Brazil, Japan, Turkey, United Arab
Emirates, South Africa, Poland, Russia, Argentina, USA, Slovenia,
Botswana, Egypt, China, Mexico, Israel, and Bahrain.
18. The goals of the 8 week on-line course are : 1. Get a full
overview of the philosophy of the AYV program Create with Purpose.
2. Gain an understanding of the value and methodologies of youth
media making. 3. Gain a clear understanding of the various media
formats in which youth work can be created. 4. Learn about the
steps and stages to facilitating effective youth media making. 5.
Explore community connections for building and engaging
audiences
19. Why to get involved into global I*EARN project based
activities? 1 . Help develop and enhance global awareness and 21 st
century skills. 2 . Are important tools of motivation and keeping
students interested in learning English. 3 . Are important tools to
teach students to be understanding and tolerant to their global
peers. 4. Let your classroom become part of global community.
20. iEARN today 2,000,000 Students 26,000 Educators 125
Countries 300 Projects 30 Languages and a million of recourses to
enhance teaching effectiveness www.iearn.org