The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) facilitates collaborative project work between educators and over 1 million students aged 5-19 from more than 125 countries. iEARN demonstrates that online education can enhance teaching and learning. It empowers students through teacher-led projects like the Local History Project, where students research their community's history and share findings online. iEARN also offers professional development for educators through online courses to enhance teaching with digital tools.

2. The International Education and
Resource Network
www.iearn.org

3. is a Network of educators and
students from over 25,000 schools and youth
organizations of 1 million students, aged 5-19
in over 125 countries

4. iEARN facilitates
teacher& student-
directed
collaborative
project work

5. iEARN
demonstrates
that online
education can
enhance
teaching and
learning and
improve the
quality of life on
the planet.

6. iEARN empowers
Professional
Development
opportunity
Workshops
Online Courses
Annual Conference

8. History Quotes
History is a symphony of echoes heard and
unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. -
Charles Angoff
If you want to understand today, you have to
search yesterday. - Pearl Buck
If we forget our history, we lose the tight
contact with ancient roots.- Tomas Jefferson

 The challenge of history is to recover the past
and introduce it to the present. - David Thelen

9. Local history
is the study of history in a
geographically local context and it
often concentrates on the local
community. It incorporates cultural
and social aspects of history.
(Wikipedia).
 is a story of people and places over
time. It aims to trace the origin and
growth and sometimes the decay of a
local community.

10. Description of the project
The Local History
Project is a
teacher&student
directed collaborative
project work in which
students research the
history of their
communities and
share their findings
with their global
peers.

11. The goal of the project

To enhance awareness of the
significance of local history to
students’ present lives.
To develop research skills.
To form and develop academic skills,
thinking, reasoning, teamwork skills.
To form and develop key foreign
language competences and skills.
To develop ICT skills

12. The Local History Project
Project classroom activities:
e-mail exchange; the Local
History Project forum; letters,
diaries and essay writing,
drawing pictures and collecting
photos.
Expected outcomes/products:
creating school sites; publishing
booklets; making Power Point
presentations and blogs.
 Project language(s): any;
English as the language of
international communication

13. The Local History Project
Coordinators of the project are Shukufa Najafova,
Azerbaijan, Rimma Zhukova, Russia and Scott Parker, USA
In the local History Project
students research the
history of their own town or
area and post their findings
on an iEARN on-line
forum (newsgroup).
Students practice research
skills (interviews, letters,
diaries and books)
and gain an understanding
of the significance of local
history to their present
lives.

14. iEARN is a tool to enhance
teaching
through online Professional
Development courses.

15. ADOBE YOUTH VOICES
online course is one of
numerous courses offered
by iEARN

16. 
is a global project that
empowers youth worldwide to
comment on their world using
multimedia and digital tools to
communicate and share their ideas,
create awareness,
take positive action and effect
change, develops critical 21st
century skills.

17. “Create with purpose” AYV program
participating countries are Uganda,
Belarus, Romania, Oman, Brazil, Japan,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, South Africa,
Poland, Russia, Argentina, USA, Slovenia,
Botswana, Egypt, China, Mexico, Israel, and
Bahrain.

18. The goals of the 8 week on-line course
are :
1. Get a full overview of the philosophy of
the AYV program “Create with Purpose”.
2. Gain an understanding of the value and
methodologies of youth media making.
3. Gain a clear understanding of the various
media formats in which youth work can be
created.
4. Learn about the steps and stages to
facilitating effective youth media making.
5. Explore community connections for
building and engaging audiences

19. Why to get involved into global I*EARN project
based activities?
1. Help develop and enhance global
awareness and 21st
century skills.
2. Are important tools of motivation
and keeping students interested in
learning English.
3. Are important tools to teach
students to be understanding and
tolerant to their global peers.
4. Let your classroom become part
of global community.

20. iEARN today
2,000,000 Students
26,000 Educators
125 Countries
300 Projects
30 Languages
and a million of recourses to enhance teaching
effectiveness
www.iearn.org