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Calling South African teachers - apply to join our exciting, free Adobe Youth Voices Programme

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBC9o9m3gbNM2Lei7BxuxRh-QV1asRK1EKEllrbhqFnt6CESEy2xXMc_JhTQBI9eTZbVjMfM2Dj9en5m5AWjlcHYn1sAK3sZ3ZRub0x5Oo-FE4s3bcYBV3KFkaJwIyjF4zA9Qrptn55ro/s1600-h/clip_image0024.png"><img alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="60" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSA7FNGMN7D_BlL8SjlFax2SifhB9_PglxDg4XEfZ49feswlG9UcoxiTA53SGllsjyLJ6whsFs7TbXRiUzEPOwAmTQLm6PIPsOGYRQQ7tLuSJTCOCr3Xgt1npgvEPkhUxXytKSpwu2d0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="123" /></a>       <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiox7e8f-oShz3FnnEOS2TjoIzTwLNViV8jtmCjtK-qsjUXNidGomWT8mVzwB8ntIOverPRQx18aWjpVF0e_ORG1BtAM54R6pVZZQ04kgY9KDtI45uH_k4UG79Lc34QtAhAPprZ7zrKp2Y/s1600-h/clip_image0024.jpg"><img alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="56" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMa0hrfea2RCyV9st8rbo9rWT_XZQAusb43QK9EXW9dZnlL8twobb364ZLHdJfTUJQCWygO7AfWKsSFtEAb_TKBw5cxWFrK_QSOHfvgMGWbeB6JtHu8yFH73BGbwCNGFCxbXMjk8buGPQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="240" /></a><em></em><br /><br /><em>S<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ubmitted by Omashani Naidoo</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a teacher of students aged 13 – 19 please think about joining our Adobe Youth Voices programme with a group of students – even if you need to form a club in order to do this.  Create media with the free products and free online training from Adobe headquarters that we supply.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All teachers and learners who meet all expectations will go into a prize draw to win great prizes and a trip to the next IEARN conference.</span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is this programme all about?</span></b>  <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) is about igniting young people’s creative confidence – the ability to harness creative skills to solve problems – by empowering them to find their voice and make it heard. AYV is the Adobe Foundation’s global initiative to increase creativity in education, which we believe will better equip young people to be the problem solvers, critical thinkers, and leaders of tomorrow.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the heart of AYV is an educational methodology that provides youth 13-19 years of age with the inspiration, training and technology to create original media content on an issue they care about. Through this experience, participants hone skills of self-expression, ideation, collaboration, flexibility and persistence – the skills we believe are central to creative confidence.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV is brought to life through strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations and school districts who deliver and support AYV programming in over 50 countries. The Adobe Foundation provides funds, software, training materials, and on-going support to partner organizations who work directly with thousands of schools, community organizations, and educators worldwide. These educators then facilitate AYV locally - reaching 130,000 young people to date.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who is eligible to participate</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Schools or youth organizations that serve low-income, disadvantaged middle and high school youth (ages 13–19)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Access to or a plan to access media production equipment and resources</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Commitment of site administrator and/or information technology department to expedite the installation of donated software on site computers as soon as it is made available.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two courses on offer</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two course sessions are held during the AYV year. For South Africa, 6 educators will participate in the September course and another 6 educators in February. Each new educator is expected to take <b>one</b> 8-week course.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Course One:</b> 23 September 2013 – 18 November 2013</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+1 new course for returning AYV educators on Photoshop and Digital Messaging</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Course Two:</b> 17 February 2014 – 14 April 2014turnign educators on Photoshop and Digital Messaging</span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are the benefits for me as a participating educator?</span></b>  <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to learning skills in the use of Adobe Photoshop and Premier Elements, learn skills in facilitating workshops on creating media and creating social messaging, the following programme activities are also offered to participating teachers and learners.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 493px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Activity</b>  </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br /></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Description</b><b></b></span></div></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentials</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentials (youthvoices.adobe.com/essentials/) connects partners, their educators, and thousands more who join, in an online community where they can share ideas, access curriculum and other resources, and upload youth media works in progress to receive feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aspire Awards</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aspire Awards (youthvoices.adobe.com/awards/), a global online media festival, recognizes best-in-class content and creativity from youth around the world. AYV youth are invited to submit projects for online viewing and voting and winning projects are awarded software and hardware.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creativity Scholarships</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Creativity Scholarships program supports the next generation of creative thinkers and propels the future careers of those who create. The scholarships provide financial support to youth who have participated in AYV through the network of strategic partners.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Educator Training</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the AYV training, educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Live!</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Live! Showcases and celebrates the youth media created over a program year. These exhibition events also present opportunities for the youth to interact with an audience about their work. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project Pitch Session</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A project pitch session is an opportunity for the youth artists to present their ideas and confirm they have a solid plan before they go into production. Often pitch sessions are organized so that AYV youth present their ideas to a group of their peers and other AYV educators for feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rough Cut Review</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rough cut review allows youth to take a step back and see their work as an audience does, while receiving feedback on ways to clarify and synthesize their ideas. Similar to the pitch session, rough cut reviews are usually done as a group, where youth artists and educators review work together and provide feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Summit</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The AYV Summit brings together AYV educators, partners and youth from around the world for a bi-annual training and celebration of the program. The Summit fosters best practice sharing, cross-cultural exchanges, develops youth leadership, and celebrates best-in-class educators.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead Educator Program</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lead Educator program has been designed as a way for AYV to maintain fidelity by supporting the core. AYV hosts an annual Lead Educator Training where Leads are prepared to be advocates for the program by articulating the need for creative confidence in their region and the community at large.<b><u></u></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How to apply</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Send Ms Omashani Naidoo, </span><a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> an email to express interest in participating in this Adobe Youth Voices collaboration project.</span></div></div>

Adobe Youth voices Calling South African teachers - apply to join our exciting, free Adobe Youth Voices Programme

Submitted by Omashani NaidooIf you are a teacher of students aged 13 – 19 please think about joining our Adobe Youth Voices programme with a group of students – even if you need to form a club in order to do this. Create media with the free p…

We invite SA teachers to participate in our Adobe Youth Voices programme – free and exciting!

11:54 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBC9o9m3gbNM2Lei7BxuxRh-QV1asRK1EKEllrbhqFnt6CESEy2xXMc_JhTQBI9eTZbVjMfM2Dj9en5m5AWjlcHYn1sAK3sZ3ZRub0x5Oo-FE4s3bcYBV3KFkaJwIyjF4zA9Qrptn55ro/s1600-h/clip_image0024.png"><img alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="60" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSA7FNGMN7D_BlL8SjlFax2SifhB9_PglxDg4XEfZ49feswlG9UcoxiTA53SGllsjyLJ6whsFs7TbXRiUzEPOwAmTQLm6PIPsOGYRQQ7tLuSJTCOCr3Xgt1npgvEPkhUxXytKSpwu2d0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="123" /></a>       <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiox7e8f-oShz3FnnEOS2TjoIzTwLNViV8jtmCjtK-qsjUXNidGomWT8mVzwB8ntIOverPRQx18aWjpVF0e_ORG1BtAM54R6pVZZQ04kgY9KDtI45uH_k4UG79Lc34QtAhAPprZ7zrKp2Y/s1600-h/clip_image0024.jpg"><img alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="56" hspace="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMa0hrfea2RCyV9st8rbo9rWT_XZQAusb43QK9EXW9dZnlL8twobb364ZLHdJfTUJQCWygO7AfWKsSFtEAb_TKBw5cxWFrK_QSOHfvgMGWbeB6JtHu8yFH73BGbwCNGFCxbXMjk8buGPQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="240" /></a><em></em><br /><br /><em>S<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ubmitted by Omashani Naidoo</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a teacher of students aged 13 – 19 please think about joining our Adobe Youth Voices programme with a group of students – even if you need to form a club in order to do this.  Create media with the free products and free online training from Adobe headquarters that we supply.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All teachers and learners who meet all expectations will go into a prize draw to win great prizes and a trip to the next IEARN conference.</span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is this programme all about?</span></b>  <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) is about igniting young people’s creative confidence – the ability to harness creative skills to solve problems – by empowering them to find their voice and make it heard. AYV is the Adobe Foundation’s global initiative to increase creativity in education, which we believe will better equip young people to be the problem solvers, critical thinkers, and leaders of tomorrow.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the heart of AYV is an educational methodology that provides youth 13-19 years of age with the inspiration, training and technology to create original media content on an issue they care about. Through this experience, participants hone skills of self-expression, ideation, collaboration, flexibility and persistence – the skills we believe are central to creative confidence.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV is brought to life through strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations and school districts who deliver and support AYV programming in over 50 countries. The Adobe Foundation provides funds, software, training materials, and on-going support to partner organizations who work directly with thousands of schools, community organizations, and educators worldwide. These educators then facilitate AYV locally - reaching 130,000 young people to date.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are the benefits for me as a participating educator?</span></b>  <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to learning skills in the use of Adobe Photoshop and Premier Elements, learn skills in facilitating workshops on creating media and creating social messaging, the following programme activities are also offered to participating teachers and learners.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 493px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Activity</b>  </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br /></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Description</b><b></b></span></div></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentials</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentials (youthvoices.adobe.com/essentials/) connects partners, their educators, and thousands more who join, in an online community where they can share ideas, access curriculum and other resources, and upload youth media works in progress to receive feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aspire Awards</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aspire Awards (youthvoices.adobe.com/awards/), a global online media festival, recognizes best-in-class content and creativity from youth around the world. AYV youth are invited to submit projects for online viewing and voting and winning projects are awarded software and hardware.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creativity Scholarships</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Creativity Scholarships program supports the next generation of creative thinkers and propels the future careers of those who create. The scholarships provide financial support to youth who have participated in AYV through the network of strategic partners.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Educator Training</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the AYV training, educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Live!</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Live! Showcases and celebrates the youth media created over a program year. These exhibition events also present opportunities for the youth to interact with an audience about their work. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project Pitch Session</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A project pitch session is an opportunity for the youth artists to present their ideas and confirm they have a solid plan before they go into production. Often pitch sessions are organized so that AYV youth present their ideas to a group of their peers and other AYV educators for feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rough Cut Review</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rough cut review allows youth to take a step back and see their work as an audience does, while receiving feedback on ways to clarify and synthesize their ideas. Similar to the pitch session, rough cut reviews are usually done as a group, where youth artists and educators review work together and provide feedback.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AYV Summit</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The AYV Summit brings together AYV educators, partners and youth from around the world for a bi-annual training and celebration of the program. The Summit fosters best practice sharing, cross-cultural exchanges, develops youth leadership, and celebrates best-in-class educators.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="108"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead Educator Program</span></td> <td valign="top" width="383"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lead Educator program has been designed as a way for AYV to maintain fidelity by supporting the core. AYV hosts an annual Lead Educator Training where Leads are prepared to be advocates for the program by articulating the need for creative confidence in their region and the community at large.<b><u></u></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who is eligible to participate</span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Schools or youth organizations that serve low-income, disadvantaged middle and high school youth (ages 13–19) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Access to or a plan to access media production equipment and resources </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Commitment of site administrator and/or information technology department to expedite the installation of donated software on site computers as soon as it is made available </span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b></b> </span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What educator selection criteria will be used?</span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Experience in facilitating or an interest in learning new strategies for project-based learning </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Strong belief in student-centered community and social change projects </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Passionate about sharing youth perspectives and voices </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Committed to engaging youth in rigorous investigation of topics of their own choosing that are relevant and meaningful to their lives </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Motivated and available to participate in AYV, without insurmountable barriers to success </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• For educators enrolling the English language online courses, an ability to read and understand English, and to interact in English with course facilitators and other course participants. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is expected of participating Educator? </span></b> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in an 8-week online course </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Develop an AYV program plan for the year, which will be drafted during the online course </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Launch their program plan and guide at least 25 youth over the course of the year in the creation of youth media using the digital tools provided.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in national AYV events, including workshops and exhibition activities </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Complete periodic reports describing progress, sharing best practices, and evaluating the benefit of AYV for youth </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in the Adobe Youth Voices Essentials online community, sharing stories and program progress </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Contribute youth media work to the AYV collection during the September 2013-June 2014 iEARN AYV Program Year, to be exhibited locally, online, and globally. Final submission of projects need to be submitted by April. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participate in program evaluation activities: each educator must complete a pre-program (start of online course), post-training (end of online course), post-program (upon submitting end of year work). Returning educators (those trained in previous years) who are not taking the online course, but will continue participating in AYV, should fill out a pre-program survey and a post-program survey. All participating educators should guide their students to complete two surveys: pre-program (prior to beginning the AYV program) and post-program (upon submitting end of year work). </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two courses on offer</span></strong> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two course sessions are held during the AYV year. For South Africa, 6 educators will need to participate in the September course and another 6 educators in February. Each new educator is expected to take <b>one</b> 8-week course.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Course One:</b> 23 September 2013 – 18 November 2013 </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+1 new course for returning AYV educators on Photoshop and Digital Messaging </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Course Two:</b> 17 February 2014 – 14 April 2014turnign educators on Photoshop and Digital Messaging </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Previous winners that travelled to the IEARN Conference with this project</span></strong><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_qMhq1oMej22zXE4-MalIxXlOvtEkX9d88fj-XN8kn0Xm98jjkAHvI-JoNQFKTFuVOR5V9RH99jWIT7S12w-AJeizaBA_3PZMTgV00mJCjEkEtSrzAlmVbaK523K-z8AyGVFgsT6gOo/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8hjuiJVK2t3FV2ZymBawnDUF3autVLbobJwMwQyditoNmF4n6EQ1-nOBeE_i3KRsFfa0Yg6ILJkU1qd2r_7i2cI0fkpeqsa00cDSSNVuwG9MlGF5WCCNG5AP2HXAdgKRonBg-6Lw3Xk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidPuotZAroID3SoB_csF6YaEoMfF85BJwoun5E7LJjuOEqDhOcrqxtZIlfwO0t7LcwgdHQa_5X2vKqvChyphenhyphen0f6OZTXylHkUAjT-pL7_c-K9o5SZNFX-nwFapCvJkcAss-EyFM5EGCraXA/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ifEgFb11eTLjtvT3dOTOH08kYwBiJAxWWgqXxEDGzJYjR0vhFhCyI5V2EeOJb2kedx6j0ne2MSDbrQ9b93i3Ifluja3h7joLdXfZdqmf-lqczvBbGPvpJg21JYo_2Tsf5EWfUqg6pPc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Hlengiwe Mfeka visits California with her movie project on Street Children</i></span></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>A SchoolNet AYV group visits Taiwan with Warren Sparrow's 'Super Veggie-Man' movie project</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read about th</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">e experiences of previous SA teachers who participated in this programme. </span></strong> <br /><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/schoolnets-adobe-youth-voices-programme.html">SchoolNet's Adobe Youth Voices programme sends a team to California</a><br />(18 August 2011)<br />2. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-wonderful-adobe-youth-voices-media.html">A wonderful Adobe Youth Voices media opportunity for South African teachers!</a><br />(27 August 2012)<br />3. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/adobe-youth-voices-in-south.html">Adobe Youth Voices in South Africa–teachers, you have to join this amazing project!</a> (5 September 2012)<br />4. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/congratulations-to-our-adobe-youth.html">Congratulations to our Adobe Youth Voices project winners!</a> (19 September 2012)    </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How to apply</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Send Ms Omashani Naidoo, </span><a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> an email to express interest in participating in this Adobe Youth Voices collaboration project.</span></div>

Adobe Youth voices We invite SA teachers to participate in our Adobe Youth Voices programme – free and exciting!

South African teachers – a great opportunity with Adobe Youth Voices that you cannot miss!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjERK2z1cb0YB5T2SGAYhEMfEyL5w2TYzfj-JZ_OkdZDxsSt_kMbwzZRz_7ThwcyFjPAhbxVmVl042xES1TdKGnzajr3aVX5hSwHsc93rKIs3cqki6BvF8OdmDnRVzU3ekFC6s7_8cWjEk/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPoenIY6Jsm2651NBZ_U8CgdXefcidQ0-UCKo6cwHljtl4ELd-l5ipY4vOYaGYNHc5O8_uhQ6qxneRW1sfjGrL6Ylwnc7Cn2wYVEQceoxCQGCOIN9vIDig0xgmoIUvPxUL87hjocAU-gM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><em><br /></em><em>Submitted by Fiona Beal</em><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you interested in learning the inns and outs of Adobe Essentials and Adobe Premier, and then teaching a group of your learners the same programmes? You would then use these programmes to create a short movie with a message for youth. Keen to know more?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SchoolNet is facilitating an Adobe Youth Voices online course which is an international course run by Adobe. The dates are February 18, 2013 - April 15, 2013. We have six places available for South African teachers to participate in this course and then complete the media projects. The online course is facilitated by two international AYV trainers across a period of 8 weeks. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigWqRHZWjVTqjx6-X8Qe_yVqScWpSaee1ktvMIL8Cqb3e-yJz-0QYWREQvLc_TwqwdAARCclnc4NA4jdb7uYmJ5mhnJH6jivDfQPPWEPMt4izmKNYw7pSSVsL4kxlNOFDKG37q84FJiag/?imgmax=800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigWqRHZWjVTqjx6-X8Qe_yVqScWpSaee1ktvMIL8Cqb3e-yJz-0QYWREQvLc_TwqwdAARCclnc4NA4jdb7uYmJ5mhnJH6jivDfQPPWEPMt4izmKNYw7pSSVsL4kxlNOFDKG37q84FJiag/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="233" /></a></div><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Previous blogposts on the Adobe Youth Voices project</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a number of SchoolNet blogposts written about previous years in the Adobe Youth Voices project if you would like to have some background:</span><br /><br /><h5><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/schoolnets-adobe-youth-voices-programme.html" style="color: blue;">SchoolNet's Adobe Youth Voices programme sends a team to California</a> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">(18 August 2011)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-wonderful-adobe-youth-voices-media.html" style="color: blue;">A wonderful Adobe Youth Voices media opportunity for South African teachers!</a> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">(27 August 2012)<br />3<span style="color: blue;">. <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/adobe-youth-voices-in-south.html">Adobe Youth Voices in South Africa–teachers, you have to join this amazing project!</a></span> (5 September 2012)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">4.</span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"> <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/congratulations-to-our-adobe-youth.html">Congratulations to our Adobe Youth Voices project winners!</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span>(19 September 2012)</span></span></h5><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SchoolNet’s YouTube channel</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can view some of the media that was created if you look through these posts. Our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/schoolnetsa">SchoolNet YouTube Channel</a> also displays the media.  Here is one of last years entries:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Title</u>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkddFbwAWok&list=UUMQUq-OFDOmmsadLBYwoqFw&index=1" target="_blank">Rise of Racism and Hazardous Stereotyping</a><br /><u>Educator:</u> Maropeng TL Monareng<br /><u>Duration</u>: 7.48 minutes </span><br /><h3> </h3><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IkddFbwAWok" width="420"></iframe><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your responsibilities as a participant</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The AYV course is offered to teachers who have access to at least a laptop with connectivity who agree to:<strong><br /></strong>1. Participate in the online course   (dates of this course- February 18, 2013 - April 15, 2013)<u></u><u></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Teach your group of learners the skills learned through the online course<u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Help your learners produce some form of media for submission to AYV international.</span><u></u><u></u> <br /><u></u><u></u> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a number of activities allocated to each week.  The course programme is attached. J The participating teachers have access to AYV forums and tutorials so that if they lack certain skills they have opportunity to learn them in addition to participating in the online course.<u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdchaqTeqAhCmKA-bSd-1Mf09pS8Aq8JwvW6OhSwGlz_-grhIQgdYExl5EqYUAdz2b6MzwEopbhqtQICqmbGdtpPA_eHHZLfLSA82525-QC73MRvg3XBB7bvqQ3cJF-fepO4JZmfN-gI/s1600-h/image%25255B14%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="91" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6p6cgFVR5BkwUG5Tch8_NlRLKZPXPIyfmOUWO2qlqZ9i2L7-ZwOv1SiYTd0U_tAJx6U8yRc_UnU49Wz27UGOkZCcEqy72FKnfjKUJKM0ASBdmd33MvXOmr1DWvRCHurzd7AE70FBvdU4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of this course you will understand: </span><br /><ol><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The philosophy of the Adobe Youth Voices program and what is expected of you, your sites and the youth you are working with as part of the program. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Models of instructional practice as they relate to working with youth and media. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The value and methodologies of youth media making. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The various media formats in which youth work can be created. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steps and strategies to facilitating effective youth media making. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Community connections and strategies for building and engaging audiences.</span></li></ol><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>More details</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can download these forms here to find out more information:<br />a) <a href="https://www.box.com/s/uu3oys5q2xznc05c8y83">Educator application</a><br />b) <a href="https://www.box.com/s/y4es6jgtn4x09xq6s2gx">Information Form</a><br />c) <a href="https://www.box.com/s/r5jgvw378pmbogbmfhic" target="_blank">Course syllabus</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Why not </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> apply?</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would like to apply, please contact <a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a></span></span></div>

Adobe Youth voices South African teachers – a great opportunity with Adobe Youth Voices that you cannot miss!

Submitted by Fiona BealAre you interested in learning the inns and outs of Adobe Essentials and Adobe Premier, and then teaching a group of your learners the same programmes? You would then use these programmes to create a short movie with a message …

Congratulations to our Adobe Youth Voices project winners!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhfhdMRmhiqhc-kUgUXj9dEnLBcbtkEiYjGxZl9e2tGH4UuXP6wBSQfAIvPlCYO-fcl09xs5hGfcBSuvGF9nt0F2RZqOVAKfx41_RWosCcaBjNUeanHdQ1cRkq1CjCa2sVL_s9dtJyAA/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwn8W4Ajf2jfzqK_J6j18UnwkvdHEezhkyCGTASYSIM3ddagAJiqq_vBOLAN-WC0LoZ-vX9R0lo934sezRXAJi2najAvt8UcG5GQdICtrmII5N5bvlnFnGGOjjYWUjehB7J0foMM9jz0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently we asked our SchoolNet premium members to vote for the Adobe Youth Voices media project they thought was the best.  (<a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/south-african-teachersplease-help.html" title="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/south-african-teachersplease-help.html">http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/south-african-teachersplease-help.html</a>) We had 39 people vote and this is a great gesture of commitment as it was no small feat to download and watch all the projects. What a dedicated team of premium members we have!! Here are the results:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Winner</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Title</u>: Rise of Racism and Hazardous Stereotyping<br /><u>Educator:</u> Maropeng TL Monareng<br /><u>Prize:</u> wins trip to Cape Town; registration for ESN conference; accommodation, meals & flip video camera<br /><u>Votes</u>: 11</span></span></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IkddFbwAWok?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Second place</span></span></b><br /><u>Title: </u>Water is Life - use me wisely <br /><u>Educator:</u>  Cynthia Lukhele<br /><u>Prize:</u> Cynthia wins second prize (flip camera); and five learners win digital cameras<br /><u>Votes:</u> 9</span></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RRqlutCaZWw?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>   <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Third prize</span></span></b><br /><u>Title</u>: Bullying<br /><u>Educator</u>: Saul Pila<br /><u>Prize:</u> Saul wins a flip camera</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Votes:</u> 6 </span></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VWBP9xpLXh8?rel=0" width="420"></iframe> <b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Complete spreadsheet of results</span></span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you would like to see the complete spreadsheet of results please view theme here.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.box.com/s/u3ypprlr9937kju878dl" target="_blank">Adobe Youth Voices 2012 voting results  </a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Want to join the new intake of the project? </span></span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />If you would like to be involved in the new intake of 12 teachers for the current year please email <a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a> TODAY! You won’t regret it! More details are available on this blogpost <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/adobe-youth-voices-in-south.html" title="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/adobe-youth-voices-in-south.html">http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/adobe-youth-voices-in-south.html</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></div>

Adobe Youth voices Congratulations to our Adobe Youth Voices project winners!

Recently we asked our SchoolNet premium members to vote for the Adobe Youth Voices media project they thought was the best. (http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/south-african-teachersplease-help.html) We had 39 people vote and this is a great g…

South African teachers–please help SchoolNet choose the best AYV submission

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 445px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="6">        </td> <td valign="top" width="246"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMru-GlJI6pn_Z2Zxs9Odv64NNlTYwNMKLaY9-W7NMvpCr4D0RCZUDGTyOR6plq9GahUjsXYYYiUmpGqsf4zRtkqrv26ZXFYc98CZvYeWrkqp-ImgVTDb4m8Mr214fzrfQWEgQW3kz3qo/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhS7b22e9FYkXiMVJX5DCS2RVtS-2AR9JIXI72w_auuwhyzlNYV_oNgqumL3Ylp2g6RuLwvnqpJpNFlkuFPYoIyMoOuvfhRJLNZBuPe-LKHukvqUy5rg21BGZpsTW9n4TZZijXaDkjy9w/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="6"></td> <td valign="top" width="185"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg735x4NxuSTrqGFQ5nTJQ7-herGqgVE0WIpohBsoO7riKAWCcgj_IZ87owNC-XTYro44ADaIMdFg9TMLDQEKGLQ-k4SU-P1wU118Etck0AxyIB0EfjtGZx09omTiQkmwBYyWokQgRoqi8/s1600-h/image%25255B13%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPGuvqa_-epLXAgT_c67uKoUJEQxxN4Q_91V3Zn7-P8Uefrx1D_vHHppK3fTHotc37q16nOH4Lms0PAYgZrVH-6zMyihq7QMEgsX37vrIRE8bfjeKUHndUhtChqah5Bj-9tHNC3wXR6Q/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="200" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please help SchoolNet vote for the best media project</span></b><i><br /></i><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you are a South African teacher we invite you to consider assisting SchoolNet with judging the best Adobe Youth Voices media project for 2012? The teachers who were selected into the project worked with their students to create a film that give a voice to youth concerns. The film that is chosen by our premium members as the best media project carries with it a WONDERFUL prize for the teacher who has been responsible for the project at his/her school. That teacher will be flown to Cape Town to accompany Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet (who oversees Adobe Youth Voices in South Africa) to the e-Schools ICT Conference from 2- 4th October at Wynberg Girls High School. The prize includes airfare, accommodation and all accompanying costs. A handsome prize, don't you think? </span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So please will you assist us by choosing the best media project by watching the 7 short videos mentioned below and selecting the best one. Thereafter open the Google Form which repeats the information in this email but also has a section for you to fill in and say <i>why</i> you think your choice is the best media project. (This is the only criteria for judging).Press SUBMIT when you are done and we will receive the results. Thank you so much for helping us with this - we appreciate your support. The closing date for voting is Wednesday 12th September 2012. (And by the way, if you would like to enter the next AYV project which starts soon please contact Omashani at <a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a>) </span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Join SchoolNet as a premium member</span></b></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This judging is for SchoolNet premium members, a free membership for South African teachers, so if you are not already a member please just go to our website http;//schoolnet.org.za and look for ‘Sign up for SchoolNet membership’ at the top of the page. Thereafter just follow the prompts. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is the link to the Google form:<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/schoolnet.org.za/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDIxdlRCQW9SQldNZEF0OEFBdnhUbnc6MQ">https://docs.google.com/a/schoolnet.org.za/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDIxdlRCQW9SQldNZEF0OEFBdnhUbnc6MQ</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are the videos with their links:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bullying <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBP9xpLXh8&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBP9xpLXh8&feature=youtu.be</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hold on <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJi7SZm5rc&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJi7SZm5rc&feature=youtu.be</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Water is Life - use me wisely <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqlutCaZWw&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqlutCaZWw&feature=youtu.be</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dance is my language<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e83NDrYdb2Q&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e83NDrYdb2Q&feature=youtu.be</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">South African heritage<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5lZj9-nWRE&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5lZj9-nWRE&feature=youtu.be</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can make it <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8K49mExArY&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8K49mExArY&feature=youtu.be</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Rise of Racism and Hazardous Stereotyping in South Africa <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkddFbwAWok&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkddFbwAWok&feature=youtu.be</a></span></div></div>

Adobe Youth voices South African teachers–please help SchoolNet choose the best AYV submission

Please help SchoolNet vote for the best media projectIf you are a South African teacher we invite you to consider assisting SchoolNet with judging the best Adobe Youth Voices media project for 2012? The teachers who were selected into t…

Adobe Youth Voices in South Africa–teachers, you have to join this amazing project!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><i>Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv92RSSfwOoRxebt82UlwLoZMgzCh5yEnXXbfsNygUaUOezsw4nhSdEvaqEFY1ENOWz6KG9L3KTNfFDXKOQScXUUBLR626VUj67XXNWWYxnfQkTN7qsViZEF-Fq7yxMVxDAAQVjqu19M8/s1600/AYV.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv92RSSfwOoRxebt82UlwLoZMgzCh5yEnXXbfsNygUaUOezsw4nhSdEvaqEFY1ENOWz6KG9L3KTNfFDXKOQScXUUBLR626VUj67XXNWWYxnfQkTN7qsViZEF-Fq7yxMVxDAAQVjqu19M8/s320/AYV.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><i> </i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the Adobe Youth Voices project? </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of intermediate and high school age youth in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills, and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools and to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Educators from participating sites join a global network to exhibit and share youth-created media projects, including videos, documentaries, photojournalism, animations, websites and multimedia. The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) joined the Adobe Youth Voices program as a founding partner in 2006, and now manages and supports the program in over 16 countries around the world. South Africa has participated in the AYV programme for the past three years.</span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The AYV programme contains two phases:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) AYV eight week online course for teachers <br />b) Media projects for students requiring media projects with social messages to be completed<br /><br /><b> </b></span></div><h3 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Online course</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h3><h3 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h3><h3 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) online course is designed to introduce educators to the Adobe Youth Voices program; and to help educators to more effectively support youth in making media. During the eight week course, educators build their knowledge and skills to create media with young people. One activity per week of the eight week course is posted; however, if educators experience challenges during the allotted week, then some leeway is allowed for late submission. Activities are focused on topics such as media forms and formats; process, product and presentation; community collaboration and exhibition; and technical skills necessary to use Adobe media making software. </span></h3><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Participating in an online course makes it necessary for a trusting rapport to be created amongst peers; educators are thus encouraged to actively respond to questions and review peer activities. Throughout the course, two experienced online facilitators provide guidance and support to course participants. By the end of this course, participants are sufficiently skilled to provide similar support to guide young students in their schools to create media with purpose.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the past three years, AYV has sponsored twelve South African educators to participate in this global project. In 2012, a concerted effort was made to find educators in and around the Gauteng province to participate in the programme, providing opportunities for contact workshops and greater interaction among course participants.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The 2102 participants</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are some of our 2012 participants</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSM2lkanN8sn3lBCdXWg-R82p8jbIBEW7t21v0H4GV2TB9wKHrZoMWwh4XxGkEjsBDSE7fgTY__Hu8-agMRENvlAhtzAANTlxfSdtRqAoPqD2GYLzVxqduCP0XnKOAVKI9QhT9sSK18KQ/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2Crmd1bGZkhGQveKodYRs9suJVaO8_Ex06AlqJvIvbDyyoYVF6QrFpv-FWcB8SqMd2nY9iVrlGC98MAcJ4HVZJliA25bbU9207jWF2ORb6C7lk3iICJu50FRqDBQ3svxAbDnAURZ3o4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>From Left</i>: Paballo , Molifi, Lindiwe, Cynthia, Omashani, Saul & Faith</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All educators were invited to a contact workshop in March 2012 and were asked to bring artefacts of their students’ media projects. This would allow participants to peer-review work as well address any questions around techniques for improving the various media projects.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The workshop was well received and arrived timeously as educators were grappling with software challenges and working with learners during examinations and holidays. The group was able to brainstorm ways to work around challenges and Mr Paballo Diboke, from the Intel Clubhouse volunteered to be the support person for technical questions on the Adobe Premiere Elements and Photoshop Software.</span><b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Completing a Media Project</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All participating educators were encouraged to submit at least one completed media project during the 2012 AYV programme. . The following are brief project descriptions and links to the projects received:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/VWBP9xpLXh8">Bullying...</a><i>submitted by</i><b> Mr Saul Pila</b> (Gauteng Department of Education-Gauteng) <br />This project highlights bullying in schools. Student and educator interviews help deal with this issue </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/RRqlutCaZWw">Water is life... use me wisely!</a> <i>submitted by</i><b> Cynthia Lukhele</b> (Ivory Park High School- Gauteng) <br />This project highlights the need for all citizens to be water wise</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/aVBkX-osqYQ">The Power of a Woman</a> <i>submitted by</i><b> Cynthia Lukhele</b> (Ivory Park High School- Gauteng) This photostory pays tribute to a wonderful teacher, who consistently ‘goes the extra mile’ to motivate her students to remain committed in everything they do.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/XcJi7SZm5rc">Hold on…</a> <i>submitted by </i><b>Cynthia Lukhele</b> (Ivory Park High School- Gauteng) </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This music video and song was compiled by Wynand Monyeseala and performed by Precious Zulu</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/e83NDrYdb2Q">Dance is my Language </a><i>submitted by</i><b> Cynthia Lukhele</b> (Ivory Park High School- Gauteng) This video displays kwaito dance and the language of dance as interpreted by students at Ivory Park High School</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/C5lZj9-nWRE">South African Heritage</a> <i>submitted by</i><b> </b>Cynthia Lukhele (Ivory Park High School- Gauteng) </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This video focuses on the different cultural dress and traditions of people living in South Africa</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/n8K49mExArY">You can make it...</a> <i>submitted by </i>Lindiwe D Zulu (Eqinisweni Secondary School- Gauteng)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This photostory was designed to motivate and encourage youth to understand that despite difficulties, there is always hope.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  <a href="http://youtu.be/IkddFbwAWok">The Rise of Racism and Hazardous Stereotyping</a> <i>submitted by </i>Tebogo Monareng (Bokomaso Senior Secondary School-Limpopo)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Racism and Sterotyping is found in all countries and South Africa is no different. The students of Bokamaso Secondary use this video to discuss and understand this deep rooted issue and find ways to overcome them.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Join us for the next AYV intake? Apply now</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although our teachers did not make the deadline to be showcased at the International Adobe Youth Voices Festival, they have done amazing work with their learners and we are extremely proud of them. SchoolNet SA looks forward to a new cohort of teachers and learners participating in the 2012-2013 programme. Will you join us? (Contact omashani@schoolnet.org.za)</span></div>

Adobe Youth voices Adobe Youth Voices in South Africa–teachers, you have to join this amazing project!

Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet What is the Adobe Youth Voices project? Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of intermediate and high school age youth in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators …

A wonderful Adobe Youth Voices media opportunity for South African teachers!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTEESemn04G0BjdJiE5BUTsMq6oyi1dQFn_IBiMNEZXbClwM9SshtgiVth1TEDSdp_sbmbqaP5Y5tpjl56AJpv0I5a8GH3V2cSJVVb_YYzCG6hd5k74F-j4ohm3d5qmr6mwzeZPjtfojA/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxbuy7dViWfHvpDI0XJYeOUvI0aYUAa-1f_gDX4JY25vVFO_IMzs7z0mgZMyecQHRLZRh1v_q4uo2E07QMXycLRl1P5ZTpB9CcDCMQBiPpOXoG-GJ3c261jDu2tqy6XiOy4bdZMDl0l8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />What is the Adobe Youth Voices project?  </span></b><br />Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of middle- and high-school-age youth in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills, and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools and to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Educators from participating sites join a global network and exhibit and share youth-created media projects, including videos, documentaries, photojournalism, animations, websites, and multimedia. iEARN joined the Adobe Youth Voices program as a founding partner in 2006, and now manages and supports the program in over 16 countries around the world. SchoolNet South Africa coordinates this programme and has received sponsorships for twelve teachers to participate in the 2012- 2013 year. SchoolNet has written two posts about Adobe Youth Voices participants visiting different countries in 2011:<br /><br />1) <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-abour-getting-involved-in.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What about getting involved in SchoolNet’s Adobe Youth Voices programme </span></a></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cV0SjWwrS0prd7M6hti6kcLL4_Nqr6G51sn9jhV8kLByMU2xJNLSWaf-VsgkWCaGJIII35jwDV6aLUzHQGhESU3LaAVsLJkOK00qFgf3vONlC3kyi3U7WB4Niz25RQgn3abXKbNLjEY/s1600/Hlengiwe.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cV0SjWwrS0prd7M6hti6kcLL4_Nqr6G51sn9jhV8kLByMU2xJNLSWaf-VsgkWCaGJIII35jwDV6aLUzHQGhESU3LaAVsLJkOK00qFgf3vONlC3kyi3U7WB4Niz25RQgn3abXKbNLjEY/s320/Hlengiwe.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hlengiwe Mfeka visits California with her movie project on Street Children</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">2) <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/schoolnets-adobe-youth-voices-programme.html" target="_blank">SchoolNet’sAdobe Youth Voices programme sends a team to California</a></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZvxNXijj7S0CltQ892BMYSIkFT2KKXjsSg6qPRyhnHBow_SZHeo6Cw3z0gqWasedpygnPD-LKW08DetcUZ1ajzzv30fwhcCmMN1Aa6sz_bH1qg_O7uvp5Jh-O8GykCL7t2WTzMcxXiLs/s1600/Warren.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZvxNXijj7S0CltQ892BMYSIkFT2KKXjsSg6qPRyhnHBow_SZHeo6Cw3z0gqWasedpygnPD-LKW08DetcUZ1ajzzv30fwhcCmMN1Aa6sz_bH1qg_O7uvp5Jh-O8GykCL7t2WTzMcxXiLs/s320/Warren.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SchoolNet team visit Taiwan with Warren Sparrow's 'Super Veggie-Man' movie project</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">View more of these media projects on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/schoolnetsa?feature=results_main" target="_blank">Schoolnet's YouTube Channel</a></span></span></div><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Eligibility Criteria:</span></b><u><br /></u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">• Serve low-income, disadvantaged middle and high school youth (ages 13–18)<br />• Access to ICTs or an ability to access media production equipment and resources<br />• Commitment of site administrator and/or information technology department to expedite the installation of donated software on site computers as soon as it is made available </span><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Benefits:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br />Up to 30 Adobe software licenses for installation at the site Recognition and opportunities to exhibit the site’s AYV youth projects to regional and global audiences<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Educator Selection Criteria:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Experience in facilitating or an interest in learning new strategies for project-based learning Strong belief in student-centered community and social change projects Passionate about sharing youth perspectives and voices Committed to engaging youth in rigorous investigation of topics of their own choosing that are relevant and meaningful to their lives Motivated and available to participate in AYV,without any insurmountable barriers to success </span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Educator Responsibilities: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Participate in an 8-week online course Develop an AYV program plan for the year, which will be drafted collaboratively during the training Launch their program plan and guide at least 25 youth over the course of the year in the creation of youth media using the digital tools provided. The youth media needs to be planned and designed to ensure youth voice is being heard. Youth should be guided to choose issues that could effect positive change in the immediate community and design a project that highlights the social issue and perhaps provide solutions as well.Complete periodic reports describing progress, sharing best practices, and evaluating the benefit of AYV for youth Participate in the AYV online community, sharing stories and program progress Work with Ms Omashani Naidoo (SchoolNet) to launch exhibition events during the program year Contribute youth media work (accompanied by required model releases and licensing agreement paperwork) to the AYV collection by end May, 2013 to be exhibited locally, online, and globally</span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />What to do now:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />If you are interested in this programme, please write to </span><a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> or contact our office 011 4035777 for more information or to receive an application form. Please note that teachers’ can participate in either of two sessions.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Adobe Youth Voices Online Course Session One:September 24 - Nov 19, 2012<br />Adobe Youth Voices Online Course Session Two: February 18 - April 15, 2013</span></b><br /><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />Please note that all student media work will need to be submitted by end of May 2013 to be considered for the International Youth Festival.</span></i></div>

Adobe Youth voices A wonderful Adobe Youth Voices media opportunity for South African teachers!

What is the Adobe Youth Voices project? Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of middle- and high-school-age youth in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skill…

Adobe Youth Voices webinar on June 28

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SchoolNet SA runs a multimedia programme for Adobe, for South African teachers, called <i>Adobe Youth Voices</i>. We would like to announce their upcoming webinar on June 28th. If you are interested in joining this webinar which is given in US time, please go to <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html</a> to convert the webinar time to your time zone. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Details of the webinar</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We're writing with a special reminder about the Webinar on <i>Working with Special Populations</i> coming up this Thursday, June 28.  (Please note slight time change.)</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>Title</b></u>: Working With Special Populations<b><u> </u></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Time: </u></b>June 28 - at 8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST US<br /><b><u></u></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Presenters</u></b>: Presented by Lead Educators <i>Justin Warren</i> and <i>Hank Machtay</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>Information</b></u>: Adobe Youth Voices programs exist in many different contexts connecting with lives and experiences of youth from all over the world. How are the unique needs of youth addressed in these programs? Join AYV Lead Educators Hank Machtay and Justin Warren as they share their approaches and insights on working with the youth in their programs.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>To join the meeting</b></u>, Login as a Guest here: <a href="http://edc.adobeconnect.com/ayvweb/">http://edc.adobeconnect.com/ayvweb/</a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>Note</b></u>: If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before:<br />Test your connection: <a href="http://edc.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm">http://edc.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm</a><br />Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview</div></div>

Adobe Youth voices Adobe Youth Voices webinar on June 28

SchoolNet SA runs a multimedia programme for Adobe, for South African teachers, called Adobe Youth Voices. We would like to announce their upcoming webinar on June 28th. If you are interested in joining this webinar which is given in US time, please …

2012 iEARN Adobe Youth Voices Media Festival starts today

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i>Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet </i></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">SchoolNet runs an Adobe Youth Voices project in various  schools in South Africa and so we are advertising the international 2012  Virtual iEARN Adobe Youth Voices Media Festival which starts today.  Join Adobe online for free to support youth media makers from around the  world who will be screening their videos at the event. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggxriE1mf1JfF5Xc5G3A3ruleRCWNz-13zE7xBqc7JXHJ7bsC9rh2uD4fPcPthzaEFJFOpDVgMdV9g7tuScyxkHb6HwAyx626zsQpznR_R8qQF6lt4XLgxb8TOLZOrz9lsHy-k60K0UbE/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN9OTd8YPaZ8colYPm_G0ZBTbGdt4Ol7Fq5mFzLc49ctsE8hKz6O98L990dZ4bGkjxyHWijFxlORBtu7kWfcIk0_7Eo2xYWwVDPIgtt7cWpy_y6WnZb-SMHBJWukIIA4183BzTVezGLKA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h6 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: large;">When?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">June 20: 18:00-19:00 GMT = 2:00-3:00 pm New York City time<br />June 21: 20:30-21:30 GMT = 4:30-5:30 pm New York City time</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br />June 22: 10:00-11:00 GMT = 6:00-7:00 am New York City time </span></h6><h6 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: large;">Where?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Online in iEARN's Adobe Youth Voices Connect Room - <a href="http://iearn.adobeconnect.com/ayv">http://iearn.adobeconnect.com/ayv</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Educators and the youth artists whose work has been selected will have an opportunity to speak to the audience about their work.  </span></h6><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The programme</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">This looks very interesting</span><br /><br /><b style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">J</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">une 20: 18:00-19:00 GMT<br />2:00-3:00 pm New York City time </span></b><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Make Your Own Kind of Happiness</b><br />Instituto Parroquial Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, Argentina </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Rainforest Fable</b><br />Fieldcrest Elementary School, Canada </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Absent Parents</b><br />Prepa Ibero, Mexico </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Isn't it Our Home?</b><br />Izz Basic Education School, Oman </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Differences Can Make the World's Greatest Portrait</b><br />Centro Interescolar de Linguas de Ceilandia, Brazil </span></div><h5 style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: small;">June 21: 20:30-21:30 GMT<br />4:30-5:30 pm New York City time</span></h5><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Planting a Tree</b><br />Centro de Ensino Fundamental Telebrasilia, Brazil </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This Is My Home</b><br />MakHill Media, Uganda </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Voice for Orphans</b><br />PMM Girls' School, Uganda </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Bullying Monster</b><br />Madre de la Misericordia School, Argentina </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human Rights</b><br />EE Prof. José Pinto Marcondes Pestana, Brazil </span></div><h5 style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: small;">June 22: 10:00-11:00 GMT<br />6:00-7:00 am New York City time</span></h5><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Smile 2012 Japan</b><br />Nishi Junior High School, Japan </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Forgotten Lives</b><br />Shanghai Pudong Foreign Languages School, China </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I Want My Life Back</b><br />College of Electronics in Minsk, Belarus </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Forest Story</b><br />Braslav Gymnasium, Belarus </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Special Not Different</b><br />Colegiul National Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Romania </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Be Clean, Keep Clean</b><br />SITE Model, Government B/G Secondary School, Pakistan </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Class Is...</b><br />Kostyukovichi State Gymnasia, Belarus </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read more on the <a href="http://us.iearn.org/news/detail/2012-iearn-adobe-youth-voices-media-festival" target="_blank">Adobe website</a></span></div></div>

Adobe Youth voices 2012 iEARN Adobe Youth Voices Media Festival starts today

Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet SchoolNet runs an Adobe Youth Voices project in various schools in South Africa and so we are advertising the international 2012 Virtual iEARN Adobe Youth Voices Media Festival which starts today. Join A…