The iDEA experience begins with a week-long residential workshop where participants collaborate through a project-based learning approach to the filmmaking process, in order to model teaching strategies for use in a classroom setting. The workshop is followed by varied levels of support from iDEA throughout the academic year. The intended outcomes of this professional development training are:

• Implement an effective media-based professional development model that can be replicated and scaled-up in successive years.
• Increase access and opportunities for student learning through standards-based, integrated multimedia instruction.
• Enhance and strengthen educational partnerships among schools, districts, community organizations, and after school programs.
• Improve students' multimedia skills and understanding, and their engagement in 21st Century Skills.

Spy Hop Productions is expanding the iDEA professional development experience to additional K – 12 educators from within and outside the state of Utah. For more information about the Interactive Digital Education Academy, please contact Stacy Ringo, iDEA Program Director, at (206) 679-5665 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .