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Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Finding Your Roots with Montana PBS Media Lab

 Montana PBS Media Lab is hosting a free series of 10 virtual workshops for middle and high school teachers focused on digital storytelling and using the themes from the popular PBS program, Finding Your Roots. 

These two-hour virtual workshops will run every Monday, from January 24 to April 4, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.  Taught by the top technology integration trainers in the state of Montana, the sessions provide teachers across the state with free, high quality, hands-on training. 

 

The digital storytelling tools that will be shared during the workshops include Storymaker, Adobe Spark, We Video, Do Ink Green Screen, Stop Motion Studio, Pixton Edu and more!

 

In addition, state-wide partners, Humanities Montana, and the Montana Historical Society will share their resources for teaching about storytelling which will provide teachers with a rich and diverse set of tools to support their lesson planning. Montana PBS Media Lab workshops will be free to all teachers and will be held after school using Zoom. Participating teachers will have the opportunity to win prizes that will support them as they implement digital storytelling with their students for attending. All teachers who attend the live workshops will earn OPI credit for participating. Teachers who attend the workshops live will get 2 renewal units for each workshop; attend all of them to earn 24 renewal units.

 

Register for this exciting opportunity here.

 

For more information, contact Nikki Vraderburg at nikki@montanapbs.org

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