MY HERO joins hands with educators and students around the world to promote global storytelling through connective technologies about heroes who have made a difference in their communities.

Bridging time, distance and the digital divide, MY HERO is committed to media literacy, cross-cultural communication, and to giving students the tools for self-expression to share their own inspiring hero stories.

MY HERO has created a Teacher's Room just for you with lesson plans, daily and thematic calendars, and downloadable and printable support materials to use in the classroom.   In the Teacher's Room you will discover, for example, how to introduce the Create Program to your students, so they can create their own Web page about their heroes with text, images and links.  

Need ideas for future lesson plans?   Students not sure who to write about?   Have them look through the calendar of heroes' birthdays for inspiration.   Use the calendars to find out about upcoming national and international events celebrating heroism.

If you are doing something unique with MY HERO in your classroom, let us know so we can send someone to film you and your students for our Teacher Training DVD.  

- Call For Entries -
ATTENTION ALL MEDIA MAKERS:
Students, Teachers, Professionals alike - make a movie
celebrating heroism and be eligible to win great prizes!

The MY HERO Short Film Festival invites all media makers to submit their work. Winners ill be featured online in our Virtual Screening Room before a global audience of thousands. Create short digital movies and share in the ancient ritual of story telling to honor heroes from around the world. We are accepting submissions of work that is 10 minutes or less in four categories: Narrative, Animation, Experimental/Musical and Documentary. Visit our website and find details on how to submit a short film and guidelines on how to make your own hero movie! Visit the Virtual Screening Room to view currently featured short films.

myhero.com/filmfestival

Now accepting entries for the 2007 competition. Cash prizes will be awarded at the 3rd Annual MY HERO Short Film Festival Screening and Award Ceremony! For more information click here.

MY HERO has a Virtual Art Gallery, which exhibits students' original artwork communicating the concept of heroism.   The Gallery invites guests to creatively and imaginatively visualize their heroes and provides a user-friendly template to submit their work online.   Students can express themselves using a variety of mediums from animation and collage to digital imagery to painting and sculpture.   Victoria Murphy, Gallery Curator, has developed a Teacher's Guide to Using the MY HERO Gallery to help you.

MY HERO presented the international debut exhibition of African Mosaics of Uganda at Saddleback Community College during the spring to wide acclaim from teachers, students and the community.   If you are interested in sharing this exhibit in your city, contact Victoria Murphy, Gallery Curator, at curator@myheroproject.org.

NOW AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES...

MY HERO: Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them is a collection of essays written by some of the most remarkable people of our time. Proceeds from the sale of this book will support this award-winning not for profit web project. We hope you will share the MY HERO book with your family and friends! More information is available on our website.

 

 

FEATURE IN DEVELOPMENT...

The MY HERO Media Watch will offer a listing of educational TV and radio programming related to the study of heroes and heroism to supplement your lessons in the classroom.

CHECK OUT... these links to other areas of the Web site that might be of interest to you:

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QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS?

We welcome your input.   Email us at myhero@myheroproject.org .