This presentation was shown at Share 2014, a congress for English teachers in Buenos Aires. It shows how to take part in the project Adobe Youth Voices as a way of raising students' awareness of social issues which are relevant to all youth around the world.

1. By Lic. Silvana Carnicero – August 2014

2. http://collaborate.iearn.org

3. Project Description Objectives
• Make students reflect on social problems they are interested in
• Allow students to do their own research on the topics chosen
• Make students create messages to raise awareness of
the social problems they have chosen
•Allow students to become content producers for other youth in
different parts of the world
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5. Bullying at
school
Addictions
Dangers in
the streets
Environmental
damage Animals’
rights
Teenage
pregnancy

6. The project in steps
Visual input
Brainstorming
Slogan
Research
Storyboard
Production
Peer feedback
Sharing

7. A video on bullying…

9. Methodology
Constructivism
Connectivism
Problem-solving
Collective intelligence

10. ICT Use
Search engines: to look for information relevant to the topics
Online translators: to look up words they did not know in English
Interactive graphic organizers: to organize the information found
Power Point presentations: to present to their classmates the causes
and consequences of the problems chosen and the possible solutions

11. Facebook: to have an online collaborative working space to negotiate
content and organization for the video productions
Moviemaker and Adobe Premiere: to create and edit the videos
produced on the topics of their choice
Youtube: to make their productions public for an international
audience
Blog: to publish the final product and share them in the web
accompanied by explanations of the production process

12. ACTIVITIES
Technology allowed students to
build knowledge based on their
own reality

13. Learning
beyond the
classroom walls
• Virtual classroom in:
•Closed group in:

14. Local and virtual
collaboration
As a result of
face to face and
online
collaboration,
students created
summaries and
graphic
organizers that
were the
starting point
for their final
products

15. Evidencias del
Aprendizaje
Students shared their
productions globally
in the collaborative
site that gave birth to
them:
Adobe Youth Voices
Online Community
Street Dangers
Let´s care for our world Born for freedom
Say no to addictions
Productions

16. An anecdote of
success
Two students at our school were nvited to take part in
Adobe Youth Summit for the work done in Adobe Youth Voices Project.
There, they exchanged creative ideas with their global peers who were
also part of the project and made a joint production with students from
India and USA.
Collaborative final product

17. EFL ICT ARTS
Meaningful foreign language learning

18. Lic. Silvana Carnicero
silvanacar01@yahoo.com.ar