Doing It For the KIDS!
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First Shot - So this Monday will be my first day doing the bit that urgently matters in a minute-to-minute sort of way: working in one of our after school programs. At the moment we're short of solid information but it looks like my co-worker (also a CTC VISTA) and I will be playing zone with 25 high school freshmen and somewhere between 0-5 video cameras in an effort to provide an interesting hands-on introduction to media production and digital storytelling. We're attempting to do this by breaking things up into small groups with very specific aims (mini-missions) and augmenting the equipment with whatever we can scare up.
Comment from danielle martin on October 2, 2006 - 11:09am
Could you sign out cameras from BNN?
Also, I was meeting with some guys from ACME Boston last night who are trying to do video blogging workshops with folks with no equipment, and we found some resources on the Current.tv site...click on the "Film/Video Resources Near You" link on the bottom (damn Flash menus mean no permalinks to content!). I haven't contacted these folks yet (Project Thnk Different is listed, but I don't think they have any equipment) but it might help.
Oh and I saw this guy speak yesterday, John Herman, at the Boston Media Makers meeting, who is a media literacy teacher up in NH. He said he pitched the idea of doing a student run multimedia newspaper to somebody from Vonage and they sent him cameras and equipment. I'm hoping to go visit his class sometime soon.
-Danielle