• Embed Doc
  • Copy Link
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
19
Creative &Language Arts
A Vision
 An international literary magazine that teachestolerance and mutual understanding.
 Ages: 7 - 20Dates: OngoingLanguages: EnglishForum: media.iearn.org/projects/visionWebsite: http://www.iearn.org/avision/Contact: Nila Pershad, Suriname, nilapershad@gmail.com,Daina Valanciene, Lithuania, valthailand2002@yahoo.com
Proshanta Sarker, Bangladesh, proshanta2002@yahoo.com An anthology of writings of various literary genres- essays, stories, and poems, which aimsto showcase the youth's thoughts, viewpoints and insights of things around them, and evenacross borders, regardless of cultural and racial diversity. Its purpose is to use art and themedium of creative writing to demonstrate that despite differences, teenagers around theworld share the same hopes, fears, interests and concerns. A Vision is produced, not merelyby the students directly involved in the project, but by everybody who contributes pieces of writing or art and is not afraid to share his/her opinion about the world today. A Vision is notonly a magazine -- it is a forum for sharing and learning!Creative & Language Arts
 
Creative & Language Arts
20
 
PEARL-Prepare and Educate Aspiring Reporters for Leadership
 
PEARL World Youth News (pearl.iearn.org) is a multimedia journalism project in whichsecondary school students from around the world report, edit and publish their articles ona web-based news service. School publications can download and use stories, videos,slideshows and podcasts from the PEARL website to add a global component to their news. The project is dedicated to Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who wasmurdered by terrorists in Pakistan, and is managed in partnership with the Daniel PearlFoundation. Any secondary school student can join the project as a PEARL Reporter after successfully completing a training and certication course. The course, which is availableonline and free of cost, includes writing assignments that are reviewed by graduate journalism students. The PEARL project also offers an online professional developmentcourse to enable secondary or middle school teachers to integrate journalism into their curricula. http://www.iearn.org/professional/pearlPD.html
 Ages: 14 - 19Dates: OngoingLanguages: EnglishForum: media.iearn.org/projects/pearlWebsite: http://www.pearl.iearn.org/Contact: Anindita Dutta Roy, USA, anindita@us.iearn.org
 A global news servicerun by secondary school students.
Who is more important than students and teachers? They are the main concern of anyschool. They always contribute to their school's development through different ways such astheir performance, achievement, various activities, sports, etc. These contributions need tobe documented and exchanged at the local and international level. Students and teachersdeserve to have such a magazine which can be reached from any place in the world.
 An electronic school magazine for exchangingexperiences betweenstudents and teachers.
Electronic School Magazine
 Ages: 5-18Dates: OngoingLanguages: Arabic, EnglishForum: media.iearn.org/projects/emagazineContact: Mutasem Mafarjeh, Palestine, t.mutasem@hotmail.com
Write On Project
The project is focused on developing students' writing skills in all four domains of writing,including: Persuasive, Expository, Narrative and Descriptive. The project facilitator, as wellas the teachers of the participating classes, will periodically post prompts focusing on one of the domains, and invite students to respond to them. This will not only develop good writingskills, but will also engage students in reading and responding to real audiences on issuesand topics that matter to them. They will get an invaluable opportunity for dialogue and getdiverse perspectives on common issues. An end product of student writings will providethem an opportunity to be published authors. Ages: 7 - 16Dates: OngoingLanguages: EnglishForum: media.iearn.org/projects/writeon
Contact: Farah Sha Kamal, Pakistan, farah@iearnpk.org
Saadia Kazmi, Pakistan, roshnee_hamesha@yahoo.com
 A project usinginteresting prompts toencourage students toexpress themselves and develop their writingskills.
 
 Creative & Language Arts
21
Laws of Life: Virtues Essay Project
“Laws of Life” are the rules, ideals, and principles by which one chooses to live. The Laws of Life Project invites young people to express, in their own words, what they value most in life.Participants submit essays about their laws of life in which they describe the rules, ideals,and principles by which they live, and explain the sources of their laws of life (life experience,religion, culture, role models, etc). Participants respond to each other’s essays and interactwith each other in the project's online forum.
Students write about their  personal values in life.
 Ages: 9-21Dates: OngoingLanguages: AllForum: media.iearn.org/projects/lawsoifeSpanish Forum: media.iearn.org/projects/leyesdelavidaContact: Natalya Cherednichenko, Ukraine, nata_chered@yahoo.com Alema Nasim, Pakistan, alema_yousuf@yahoo.comFor Spanish version (Las Leyes de Vida), see page 55.Facilitadores: Crescencio Orrego crescencio@telar.org, MaríaPatricia Ochoa Valbuena mpochoav@telar.org, Colombia
One Day in the Life
 A project in which students write descriptions and cross-cultural comparisons of ordinaryor special days. This might include stories about typical days, or vacations, birthdays,graduation or other experiences, including celebrations and holidays.This project is complimented with a digital photo section (A Day in the Life: Photodiaries), inwhich students share captioned autobiographical photographs on various topics. Studentsshould accompany each digital photograph with a short written explanation of what isdepicted in the photograph and its signicance.In addition to ongoing forum activities, there will be at least two "OneDay" events in 2009-2010 - the rst on Tuesday, November 10th, and the second in April/May - when studentsaround the world will document parts of this specic day using photography, writing, andother media. It's very easy to participate - ask your students to document their routines onthis day - November 10th - such morning chores, breakfast, getting to school (if it falls ona school day), school routines, after-school activities, evening activities at home, etc. Thenstudents will post and discuss their work in the One Day forum. We hope some of your students can join us! Also in 2009-2010, we will be exploring habitats, as students describe and photograph their homes in commemoration of World Habitat Day. Ages: 6-18Dates: OngoingLanguages: AllForum: media.iearn.org/projects/onedayinthelifeSpanish Forum: media.iearn.org/projects/undiaWebsite: http://www.telar.org/portada/portada.phpContact: Lali Santos lalisantos@telar.org (Spanish), Viviana Cuello

patagon_99@hotmail.com (English), ArgentinaA Day in the Life: Photodiaries: Chris Baer, USA,
cbaer@mvyps.orgFor Spanish version (Un Día en la Vida) see page 55.
Students describe a day in their life.
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...