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Join over 200 primary and secondary level projects designed and facilitated by teachers and students. In addition to connecting students' learning with local and global issues and meeting specific curriculum needs, every iEARN project must answer the question, "How will this project improve the quality of life on the planet?" This vision and purpose is the glue that holds iEARN together, enabling participants to become global citizens who make a difference by collaborating with their peers around the world.

Spanish Class Project on using the subjunctive tense. Students create a song parody to Thrift Shop and made a music video.  Comments reveal that people from all over watched and even learned from it.   I've been a WL teacher for 10 years and there is so much room for creativity and expression using the target language.   YouTube makes sharing with a global audience possible.    I could watch these videos all day long!

Spanish Class Project on using the subjunctive tense. Students create a song parody to Thrift Shop and made a music video.  Comments reveal that people from all over watched and even learned from it.   I've been a WL teacher for 10 years and there is so much room for creativity and expression using the target language.   YouTube makes sharing with a global audience possible.    I could watch these videos all day long!

Create published books - could be a great project for the Spanish and Italian students to create books for younger students in the target language.

Rcampus helps create rubrics for all topics and projects

The art of storytelling is still a crucial component in many school library programs. By tapping intothis expansive tradition and integrating web 2.0 digital story technologies, librarians are able tocollaborate with English as a Second Language Teachers in order to design student-centered digitalstory projects. This transformative use of technology within the framework of social constructionismmotivates language students to focus on the contextual use of language rather than basic vocabularydevelopment. The case for digital storytelling is built on an intersection of secondary languageacquisition theory, language learning pedagogical understandings and instructional strategies

PBL in Spanish class