http://digitalartscorps.org/taxonomy/term/142/0 en http://digitalartscorps.org/node/139 <p><em>First Shot </em>- 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&#39;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&#39;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. That means my beloved drum machine, an old digicam, my microphone and Google. I&#39;m glad we didn&#39;t have to resort to building birdhouses out of popsicle sticks.The process of tracking down the means of production (cameras, software, staff we&#39;re meant to be working with, potential volunteers) have actually made me start to understand what Donald Rumsfeld was talking about with all that &quot;known unknowns&quot; jive... see below, coaxed into poetic format courtesy of Slate (<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/)" target="_blank">http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/)</a>: The UnknownAs we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don&#39;t know We don&#39;t know.—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefingIf it survives the battlefield, I&#39;ll post the notes, general curriculum and lesson plans that I whipped up for the program. Keep your eyes clear, keep your hands steady and most importantly, keep your receipts.</p> http://digitalartscorps.org/node/139#comments lessson plans school youth media Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:24:34 +0000 AJ McGuire 139 at http://digitalartscorps.org