About

Course Descriptor:

Digital Voices is an unique 2 credit block Digital Media course designed for students interested in Indigenous Education. The focus of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to embrace, document, depict, digitalize all of our cultures (the Seven Sacred Teachings, stories, rituals, artifacts, etc.) while experimenting with digital media. The course is made up of two grade 12 MST (AWAR4S and WEGR4S) course. In addition to successfully completing this 2 credit course, student with a 80% (or higher) and who meet the articulation agreement setup, will receive a Digital Media credit at the University of Winnipeg.

Digital Voices incorporates a variety of materials, techniques, tools, technologies, and skills from various arts disciplines including dance, drama, music, and visual arts. The technologies/processes used and adapted to create digital media art may be traditional, including, but not limited to, photography, film, sound, animation, and video. The technologies and processes may also be digital: computer software, blogging, networking, game development, digital imaging, digital sound recording, 2D and 3D animation, multimedia production, and web-page design.

Digital Voices on Prezi

Digital Voices is a 2012 Finalist for the Adobe® Educators’ Choice Awards!

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The Adobe® Educators’ Choice Awards celebrate teaching and learning resources that unleash students’ creativity. Impress the judges (who will select the Finalists) and your peers (who will vote for the Winners) by submitting your best projects, lesson plans, curricula, and tutorials.

School of Innovation:

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Sisler High School is a Microsoft Innovative Pathfinder School. Sisler is transforming education in a scalable, replicable way by influencing other schools within our own community, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and around the world.

About Partners in Learning
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Partners in Learning is a 10-year, nearly $500 million commitment by Microsoft to help education systems around the world. Since its inception in 2003, the Partners in Learning program has reached more than 196 million teachers and students in 114 countries. Supporting the program is the online Partners in Learning Network, one of the world’s largest global professional networks for educators, connecting millions of teachers and school leaders around the world in a community of professional development.

Learn more by visiting:
http://www.pil-network.com

Students should review the following documents prior to creating digital media

Assessment: Digital Media Rubric

The Creative Process for students

Digital Voices Media Release Form

Digital Voices Software List

Course Outline:  Click here to view the 2012 Course Outline

Digital Voices Course Information:

Articulation

In addition to working towards 2 high school credits, students may end up with an additional 7 University of Winnipeg credits. Students can save a potential $3,000 (in 2011, the University Of Winnipeg’s Web Design Certificate Program cost a total of $4,280) by taking Sisler’s Digital Voices program. It is the responsibility of the student to challenge for the U of W credits.
Students must:
•maintain an 80% average in both high school credits,
•score an 80% or higher on the University of Winnipeg’s Web Design Certificate tests.

Learn more about our articulation agreement: http://www.digitalvoices.ca/about/articulation/