Digital Arts Service Corps - community media

Dropping off the face of the vista-planet

Julie Bohnlein — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:45:41 +0000

It's recently come to my attention that I have disappeared from the face of the vista planet. So I have a small update.

Since March, this is what I have been doing at BNN:

- Taking inventory on new equipment

- Going and presenting our summer teen program at summer opprotunities fairs

- Learning how to use the new equipment

- Editing a BNN program called "Early Works" which is a compliation show of footage from recently trained producers

- Helping set up logistics for our summer program (how many teens, how many groups, how many supervisors)

- Mailing out applications

- Recieving applications back

- Setting up and updating spreadsheets on everyone we sent applications to and ones we've recieved back

- Updating BNN's Community Bulletin Board

- Helping with various mailouts BNN has because I'm apparently a mailout-machiiiiiiine.

Instead of being at the Multimedia center in Roxbury everyday, I'm now there four days a week, and spend one day a week at the cityplace location, mainly for updating the community bulletin board and collecting applications.

Some Examples of Digital Media Curricula Created by VISTAs

lauren bratslavsky — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:08:25 +0000

Here's some curricula and/or handouts created by VISTAs:

Shot Composition Packet (Media Bridges - Lauren)
MOSAIC, Digital video bootcamp (english high school) (HOME Inc - Kevin/AJ)
Digital Photography Course Packet (Media Bridges - Lauren Bratslavsky)
Media Literacy (Project Think Different - Colleen)
Basic Computer Skills (Shaneka)
PhotoBooth (Media Bridges - Lauren)
Digital Storytelling (Center for Digital Storytelling - Jessica)
?? (Computers 4 Kids - Ray)
Video (Reelworks - Will)
After school Curriculum with a Radio Station (Lashanda)
Creating a Youth Online Radio Station (Pink House - Renae)
tips/forms for student project management

Also, here's some curricula used/recommended by VISTAs from other sources:

Adobe website
Youth Learn (EDC)
CTCNet Resource Center
Danielle's Curriculum links on Delicious

Need basic curricula templates/guides?

News from MNN/NYMAP Video Exchange

danielle martin — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:29:08 +0000

From the Youth Channel newsletter:

News from the NYMAP Video Exchange: Over the next few weeks, MNN Youth Channel and the other NYMAP (National Youth Media Access Partners) will be officially launching the new Youth Video Exchange website out to the world and bringing in new partners. The website www.nymapexchange.net is a networking hub for youth-serving community media centers and youth media sites, which aims to build the infrastructure to make better sharing of youth-produced media possible. The Core Partners in this project are: People TV in Atlanta, Grand Rapids Community Media Center, St. Paul Neighborhood Network, and Portland Community Media in Oregon. Check out the website www.nymapexchange.net , or email andrew@youthchannel.org to learn more or to find out how you could get involved.

Digital Distribution

danielle martin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:08:39 +0000

So far, digital distribution (or digital delivery) discussions among CTC VISTAs have been focused on video sharing, mostly among cable access stations (such as the NYMAP or Digital Bicycle projects). With the explosion of video sharing sites such as YouTube, Google Video, and Blip.tv, the ability to share video content has become almost second-hand to young web users. Factor in the ease of peer-to-peer network technology and we have an environment where youth could certainly be sharing all sorts of their own digital content.

Inherent in this area too are stumbling blocks such as copyright (see Creative Commons), digital rights management, and loss of video quality.

How can CTC VISTAs tap into these trends and resources to support their efforts? Blog your ideas, lessons learned, and questions and tag it "digital distribution."

Here's some other topics identified at the PSO around this area:

-outreach to local community organizations to share content
-Podcasting
-Videoblogging
-issues around distribution of youth content