| Testimonials from Course Participants
The course gave me a fresh impetus to a career that I love, but which I was beginning to become a bit jaded...it made me far more confident in using the Internet as a research/communication tool...and brought new friendships...'
- Helene Hendey, South Africa
I loved the way the students became excited about seeing their work displayed online. It was an interesting exploration into online courses. I benefited from the experience of interacting with teachers from all over the world.
- New York City, USA
The global interactive forums are wonderful places to discuss important issues affecting us today. My students benefited from the wide exposure to students around the world and their interpretations of art.
- New York City, USA
Naturally I responded positively when I read about the opportunity to take an on-line course through iEARN in the area of creative arts. This was a fabulous chance to explore, develop and expand my technical skills through in an interactive class while collaborating with other learners from all over the globe. Right up my cyber alley!
- Margaret Mahoney, USA
In a school where the science teachers and the arts teachers usually had nothing in common, the course helped to narrow the gap between this two groups of people. Seven teachers participated and could be seen consulting each other about the progress of the course. The group was now called the iEARN group and could be seen identifying with each other as such.
- Davis Namboko, Uganda
The course gave me a broad view on how to use technology and meet standards. It just confirmed my belief that project based learning is more effective than rote method learning
- Helena Johnson, USA
I thought about doing this type of project for a while. The course made it easy to set up and provided helpul ways to improve structure. It helped me see how students can use each other as research resources and how important it is for students to have an audience for their writing.
- D. Witt, USA
This course has helped me to understand that there are people all over the world that have similarly challenging teaching conditions and sociologically pressing needs in there own country. I would like to be in contact with other iEARN teachers to work and collaborate as there is so much in common...The project I designed has been on my mind for some time. This course has been a catalyst to my thinking and teaching methods. I had thought about teaching the students about renewable sources of energy (concentrating on wind mills). When I went through the sites, as we were required for outside reading, the whole project started coming together from all the material I was going through. I had then involved the children in the concept planning where they had to find out the damage caused to the environment by thermal (coal burning & gas burning) power generation stations. The students then found out about the advantages, cost and pollution wise, of wind generation of power. We have in our curriculum, study of environment and the dangers posed to the environment by conventional generation methods. Thank you for a lovely experience!!!
- Zareer Aga, India
I teach computer science in my school and it was very easy to put this project in to curriculum...My students are always very glad to participate in iEARN projects because this is a good chance to find new friends over the world and process of studying become much more interesting for them. Children like to investigate, make new discoveries and simply communicate.
- Natasha Cherednichenko, Ukraine
I am awfully happy I was able to get my Professional Development from your course. My participation in iEARN on-line courses opened a door of great diversity to create into my classroom.
- Karligash Ishanova, Uzbekistan
It's not so easy to imagine and believe that people who have never met, who belong to different systems of education, culture and geographical areas, became closed to one another, felt free to express their feelings and had the chance to share their experience between themselves. I can say that the interaction went further than between the members of the course, directly to my students, because during the course I tried to apply some of the things and models I was taught and it proved to be a real success, because I saw my students improved their creativity in writing essays and I could also feel their "voice" in their writings.
- Corneila Platon, Romania
My Integration Plan started in week 4. My students experienced online communication. They were given passwords for taking part in the Interactive Forums. They took part in the Laws of Life forum very actively...They used to insist on speaking and they didn't like to write. Now they are eager to do the writing assignment and above all they are developing a sort of appreciation for English Literature.
- Leila Mohammadhossein, Iran
In my point of view all these projects use artworks as universal language of communication and reflect students¹ emotions and vision of this or that problem. And besides these projects include creative writing which helps students express their thoughts, ideas, joy and sadness, problems and success in writing, to share and exchange their opinions on topics closely connected with civics , one of the most important goals of education to bring up a positively active citizen of our global village.
- Elena Rekichinskaya, Russia | 
