Santa Fe: Movie Documentary Workshop for Teachers

Hi, guys!!! Members of Southwest Oral History Group in NM, Film makers,
Home school instructors, historians: please take a look at this great
workshop - in Santa Fe: July 30-Aug, 8:30 to 4:30. Tel. 505-983-1992,
infor@multipleminds.com.

Please pass this along. Thanks.

Tessie Greenfield
Member, SOHA, Also video editor.


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> Multipleminds Educational Foundation is holding a teachers
> class called "Movie Documentary: 21st Century Research Essay
> for Teachers" on July 30-Aug 3. This is a 40-hour intensive
> program for K-12 teachers and after-school program tutors.
> The program is a hands-on demonstration and production
> course on how to expand the five paragraph essay into a
> research documentary movie. In this way participants will
> see how to apply the Multiple Intelligences Theory,
> Differentiated Instruction, 21st century skills, and inquiry
> learning in an integrated lesson design leading to a movie
> documentary.
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> Teacher-participants will learn how to access, organize,
> distill, and synthesize information as they would ask
> students in a research project.
> However in this workshop instead of having students just
> read and write, students will conduct research and connect
> science and/or social studies topics to their lives and
> produce a movie documentary. Further, as they do their
> research they will interview specialists in the fields they
> are researching about. By this they will broaden their
> perspectives on future careers with encouragements from real
> professionals.
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> Teacher-participants will learn how to engage and excite
> students in learning through research and will tap into
> their techno-savvy aptitudes to increase their subject
> matter mastery levels. This course will enhance your 21st
> century after-school program, most especially as a
> project-based learning strategy for students in 4th to 12th
> grades. It will also enlighten non-profit organizations with
> after-school and youth programs regarding applications of
> Constructivist Learning through Documentary moviemaking.
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> Teacher-participants will learn to use sensory awareness as
> an innate learning resource; bringing about multiple ways of
> perceiving information, ideas, and emotions. They will
> engage in critical thinking, writing, and production of a
> multimedia presentation of a science, social studies, and
> language arts research project in the form of a video
> documentary.
> Teacher-participants will learn to use the elements of a
> documentary movie production as the structure and process
> for content exploration and mastery.
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> Corollary to the production of their documentaries,
> teacher-participants create a hypothesis, gather evidences,
> distill patterns, formulate conclusions and recommend
> alternatives. The components of multimedia will be the means
> to articulate findings and propose innovative solutions.
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> Teacher-participants will learn to use software programs and
> learn to teach these with detailed instructions for
> classroom applications. These programs include MS Word,
> PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Premiere
> Elements. Additionally, teacher-participants will also
> experience fun and dynamic strategies in multi-format
> Internet research. They will also learn to shoot video with
> a purpose using a digital video camera.
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> This course is recognized by University of New Mexico's
> Institute of Professional Development as a 3 credit program
> upon completion of the course. We submit a grade and with an
> additional $200 for tuition, teachers get their credits
> applicable to their graduate education degree program.
> Tuition without the graduate credits is
> $500/teacher-participant.
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> Please spread the word to teachers!
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> Looking forward to hearing from you!
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> Best!
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> Gigi