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Educators participating in professional development courses learn methods for implementing 21st Century Learning Skills in their classrooms. They learn to help their students create digital media and receive tips for integrating those skills into existing curricula and project-based learning approaches. Course are approved for Pennsylvania Act 48 credit. WHYY will also provide documentation for Delaware and New Jersey educators.
Participants may be teachers of any content area looking for a new outlet for student expression and education. Classroom video and audio production projects are designed to be student centered. As such, participating teachers will learn to guide their students through hands on lessons while students develop their voices as multimedia storytellers.
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DCIU: Video Production in the Classroom
This two-day course is offered in partnership between WHYY and The Delaware County Intermediate Unit. This course targets middle and high school teachers with the purpose of teaching them how to integrate digital media production capabilities and skills, 21st Century Learning Skills, and critical media literacy skills into their classrooms. The course takes a project based learning approach to model the approaches teachers will take with their students when they implement a digital storytelling project. Teachers will become familiar with equipment for digital storytelling projects, story planning, interviewing skills, editing, and post-production activities.
Credits: One (1) Continuing Professional Education (CPE) graduate credit, 30 Act 48 Hours. May count towards Level II Certification and Master's Equivalency.
Registration Fee: $280.00 if registered prior to 1 week before start of course, $305.00 if registering between 7 days and start of course
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June 2 and 9, 2012 — 9:00AM-4:00PM
E201 — Teaching Documentary Production
In this session, teachers learn to guide students through the basic skills necessary for creating great student documentaries. The day will cover planning projects, shooting and editing on Final Cut Pro. This is a hands on course, in which teachers will be recording and editing media.
Teachers will receive WHYY's complete Documentary Workshop Curriculum for students grades 6-12. The curriculum guides students through the full documentary process.
5 hours of Act 48 Credit for PA educators. WHYY will also provide documentation for DE and NJ educators.
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E202 — Teaching News Literacy
Teachers will learn to incorporate the core concepts of media literacy into their lesson planning, through a close reading of newspapers, broadcast news and web-based resources. By exploring the techniques used in the production and distribution of content, teachers will learn to lead discussions on such topics as fact vs. opinion, representation and stereotypes in the media and ethics in journalism.
This is a discussion-based experience and not a hands on media production course.
5 hours of Act 48 Credit for PA educators. WHYY will also provide documentation for DE and NJ educators.
Member course fee: $85
Non-member course fee: $145
Includes Lunch
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Saturday, March 24, 2012 — 10:00AM-4:00PM
E301 — Teaching Multimedia Journalism
With the shift of news media to the web and mobile platforms, increasing emphasis has been placed on multimedia content. Young journalists entering the field are often expected to shoot and edit video and audio, while continuing to write great articles. This two day course helps journalism teachers, English teachers, social studies teachers and school newspaper advisors prepare students for this new multimedia world. This is a hands-on course, in which teachers will be recording and editing media.
10 hours of Act 48 Credit for PA educators. WHYY will also provide documentation for DE and NJ educators.
Registration for 2013 available soon
"American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen" Scholarship Opportunity
The teacher scholarship application is open to teachers of students in grades 7-12 in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The scholarship represents a value of close to $150 per person. There are two available dates for the teacher scholarship courses in fall 2012 - Saturday October 6th from 10 AM to 3 PM and/or November 3rd, 2012 from 10 AM to 3 PM in the WHYY Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media Commons. Each date has space for 32 educators to work with WHYY instructors across two classrooms. Teachers should come with a project in mind of how they will integrate a digital storytelling assignment into their plans to keep students engaged in their content areas. Please see attached proposed project form to be filled out along with the teacher scholarship application.
Details and registration for American Graduate Scholarship »