Digital Media Updates (Call 01/26 - Working with Youth)

This new year brings on a new phase of me being behind on getting y'all together, but here's to New Year's resolutions! I'll be starting the individual check-in calls tomorrow and hope we can schedule the next conference call for Friday, January 26th at 2pm EST. At the last call, we had a guest speaker, which seemed to work out well. There was talk of focusing our next call on youth development and tips for engaging youth in media projects. I'll try to get a guest speaker but let me know if there's anything specific you're willing to share with the group.

Also, will the lack of a CTCNet conference this year, we're a little more open to attending other conferences. Since your org is required to send you to one, it might be interesting if we find one related to digital media that we could aim for a critical mass of Digital Media CTC VISTAs. The NAMAC Conference would be perfect, but it's not until October 2007. The Alliance for Community Media conference might only be interesting for folks in cable access stations (July in MN). Many of the other CTC VISTAs will be going to the NTEN Conference in April, which may appeal to your techie side...Anyway, I'll start looking around, but suggestions are welcome!

Finally, as I spammed everyone in the general CTC VISTA list, our guest blogger this month will be Morgan Sully, former VISTA and digital media/storytelling guru, so keep an eye on the blogs and get ready to comment and ask him questions galore. Oh and it wouldn't hurt to blog some photos or videos of some stuff you're working on too (according to Dina's blog entry, apparently I need to start bribing everyone with homemade cookies...)

PS. Thanks to a lovely gift of time from Mr. Ben Sheldon, I've got a new personal blog and portfolio up at http://verdesmoke.com.  It's mostly for grad school's to look at for now but soon I hope to be waxing philosophically about life there as well.