Bridges Workshop for Teachers

“Bring the Power of Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom.” Popular one-day workshop for educators on how to teach students to produce digital stories about their lives, communities and common global issues and then share them with their peers around the world. Applicable to many subjects. Proficiency in technology not required. Presented by Bridges to Understanding.

To register: www.bridges2understanding.org. Contact: Tania Westby, Program Director, tania@bridges2understanding.org.

BRIDGES TO UNDERSTANDING. Founded in 2001 by renowned photographer Phil Borges, the mission of Bridges to Understanding is to empower and unite youth worldwide, enhance cross-cultural understanding and build global citizenship using digital technology and the art of storytelling. Our curriculum-based programs are used by middle and high school teachers to connect students with their peers in Bridges’ network of classrooms around the world to learn directly from each other about each other. Working in small production teams, students create and share their own short videos (“digital stories”) using a series of still photographs, running narrative, ambient sound and music. The stories focus on issues that are personally important to the students who create them, centering around broadly defined themes of environmental sustainability, culture and traditions and conflict and reconciliation. The videos are then posted on Bridges’ interactive web site for viewing and discussion by students throughout the world. The organization’s extensive online library of youth-produced digital stories and accompanying discussion guides is also available to Bridges teachers for enriched global learning. Classrooms engaged in Bridges’ programs participate in password-protected online discussion forums where they ask questions and post answers of students in other countries. Bridges’ curriculum is aligned with Washington State and National standards and is used by teachers of social studies, languages (Spanish/English), science, technology and other subjects. The curriculum, digital stories, discussion guides and online discussion forums are available in both Spanish and English. To view examples of student work and learn more, go to www.bridges2understanding.org; click on the links in the lower left corner to view recent stories. For more information: info@bridges2understanding.org.


Joyce McClure
Executive Director

601 N 34th St
Seattle, WA 98103
www.bridges2understanding.org
206.925.5301 (office)

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MISSION: Bridges to Understanding empowers and unites youth worldwide, enhances cross-cultural understanding, and builds global citizenship through the use of digital technology and the art of storytelling.