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** This is a project that's theme included the use
of a video camera. Unless specified iEARN projects do
not require you use a camera as participant.
How It Began
“It was an awesome way to meet new friends and
use computers to learn about ourselves our school, and
our community at the same time,” said Teagan Morin,
an eighth grader participating in the Integrated Arts
program at Memorial Middle School. She is one of over
six hundred students who have participated in Cultural
projects at local, regional, state, national, and international
levels thanks to the inclusion of technology in their
classroom. Her school is located in Laconia, New Hampshire,
USA on the shores of Lake Opeechee. Memorial Middle
School serves over six hundred students in grades six,
seven and eight in a City of 15,000 people.
It all began in the Art Department with an iMac six
years ago and has grown into a 6 eMac, three camcorder,
video conferencing , student centered studio space that
supports the school’s core and exploratory curricular
areas, produces it’s own weekly cable television
show, documents school wide activities, and fosters
global understanding as a project participating member
school of the International Education and Resource Network.
The school's faculty and students have participated
in Creative Arts Courses, Learning Circles, and Face
to Face Exchanges, but none of these has motivated our
student community more than the Moving Voices Project.
In March, we were informed that MMS had been selected
to participate in this innovative iEARN project along
with four USA schools and sixteen schools from around
the world. The goal of the project was to foster global
understanding through the production of a video piece
that answered the question…
“What do I want the world to know about
my school ?”
This was more than chance! What more could a video
related class ask for from a project? This was the real
world offering us an opportunity to apply what we were
learning. It was a chance to organize what we had been
experimenting with over the years: the elevator story,
the script, the storyboard, the taping, the editing,
the viewing and the reviewing.
How We Did It
Organizing our participation centered on our State
and District frameworks.The Moving Voices Project met
the objectives of fostering global understanding through
the Arts, developing a cultural identity, demonstrating
the ability to apply skills learned in the integrated
classroom, participating in projects that foster career
awareness, and utilizing skills learned in core curricular
subjects in the arts classroom i.e. Math, Language Arts,
Social Studies, Science.
Having identified the frameworks allowed us to develop
a working handbook to be used by the students along
with a rubric checklist to be used over the nine weeks
of the project. Here is
the working document. 
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Moving
Voices is a project to enable youth to create educational
digital films for use in classrooms. The project aims to address
the need among students worldwide for 21st Century skills,
which include comfort with digital technologies, cross-cultural
exchange, team work, collaboration and confidence knowing
their work is being used in schools across their country and
around world.
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