I created a little smorgasboard of my notes from one-on-one calls, the PSO in January, the MA area meeting last week, and the Digital Media group call a couple weeks ago to produce the long awaited Digital Media Group Updates! Wooohoo! [I've taken the liberty to bold the most interesting tidbits.]

•  AJ McGuire (HOME Inc.) - working with school as part of Research Action Change Class, on issues of global warming and educational inequality, and created videos; working on implementing the MOSAIC media literacy curriculum and incorporating video production
• Colleen Kelly (Project: Think Different)- youth action summit on MLK Jr. day with media watch team; managing interns; implementing a media literacy program at Edwards Middle School two days a week
• Dan Chen (Pui Tak Center) - tasked to develop digital media program for youth, incorporating his photography and graphic design skills; helping the org by developing template for the annual report and updating the website; writing grants for new cameras and looking for volunteers/mentors
• Derek Maxwell (Phillips Community Television) - *new* - doing well so far, although PCTV is not really a cable access station...
• Elisha Durrant (The Inland Northwest Community Access Network) - *new* - youth media and community outreach for TINCAN;
• Jessica McCoy (Center for Digital Storytelling) - getting into nitty gritty of collecting content and doing phone interviews for the StoreForChange.net portal for community digital storytellers; also working on Youth Uprising project to develop curriculum for collecting digital content for Oakland Tribune; updating CDS cookbook with more on post-production of digital stories and managing some interns to take over some of the post-production tasks on CDS workshops
• Julie Bohnlein (Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation, Inc.) - *new* -  working at Roxbury studios primarily of BNN to create youth show/channel; has a nice cubicle and a phone; floating between Roxbuy and downtown studios; needs foodstamp letter; connect with Lauren and Richard
• Kevin Palmer (HOME Inc.) - just received grant to create a community radio station at a school and writing more grants for other media labs at other local high schools; partnering with Julie at BNN to create Boston youth media program/show
• Lauren Bratslavsky (Media Bridges, Cincinnati, Inc) - attended Media Reform conference in Memphis; started Saturday youth media lab… intro curriculum to use Photobooth and working on handouts tutorials for iMovie; developing Youth Media Block (new name on the channel); working with charter school's wed elective day to do PSA workshop and planning a summer program; has an intern from the university
• Leena Silverman (YMCA of Greater Boston) - *new* - establishing more technology programs at Eggleston Sq YMCA through Cyber Y lab; setting up new policies/procedures and summer youth program; implementing Kinetic City
• Mike Matthews (The Media Aid Center) - *new* - working with Ramon on developing tv programs and focusing on distribution
• Naomi Jimenez (Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute/OTXWest) - *new* - working with new multimedia center and updating digital storytelling curriculum for summer institute; working on Sat to attend/ghost classes at OTX; connected with ol CTC VISTA (now staff) Jeff Benton
• Ramon Myers (The Media Aid Center) - *new* - started out as a volunteer but now is a VISTA working to develop TV programs and marketing in TV studio embedded in a high school; working on outreach into the community
• Richard  Anderson (Grand Rapids Community Media Center) - working on some video projects; working a little on the audio stuff but the financial status of the station/center; hosted January open house to do community outreach; doing some interview with Catalyst Radio program;
• Shaneka Smith (Westside Youth Technical Entrepreneur Center) - continuing work on entreprenuerial projects with youth like t-shirt buisness and commercials; doing more music mixing, album covers, & music videos; also working on awareness videos with Girls program on the topic of abusive relationships
• Tony O'Rourke (Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley, AZ) - sat down with supervisor and successfully talked about expectations; started doing outreach with the community with kids to come to Club, targeted Young Champions (young athletes); reorganized the computer lab over the holidays and writing grants to get new equipment
• Will Quinones (Reel Works Teen Filmmaking) - went to Sundance Festival and presented as part of the Adobe Youth Vision, paired with filmmaker and did a daily video blog; doing outreach for ReelWorks through MySpace and ListenUP!
• Sharon Smack (Seventh Day Baptist Community Development Education and Service Outreach Ministry) - switched from Community Organizing group in January; created commercials for the youth service projects and will also be doing some radio broadcasting.

[Yes, I'm missing a few folks...don't worry...I'm on the case!] 

I just moved from the Community Organizing group to the Technical Assistance (TA) for Nonprofits group because I'm doing web and TA work rather than anything related to fundraising or outreach. I was one of the two note-takers on this month's conference call; my notes are after the jump.

Comment from Kamala Kalluri on February 10, 2007 - 2:02pm

Rebecca;

That is a well described notes. Especially to me it complements the parts of conversation I had to miss due to disturbance on line( or whatever).

I tried but failed to locate your e-mail on the 'to' list of addresses on mail sent by Aliya and thought of keeping this note here. I guess most likely we will be discussing PHP and Mysql.

It was nice being able to say hello on the conference call day.

On Monday, January 8, 2007, the TANs took the time to gather for our monthly conference call.   

Cheryl entertained us with an informative and interesting presentation on Disaster Recovery Planning.  An issue applicable to anyone and everyone, she told us what a disaster recovery plan is, why to have one, and gave us a step-by-step guide to creating one!  

Comment from Corey Funderburk on January 29, 2007 - 2:15pm

Definitely like this:   :) (which I believe is to the left?)

I am right-handed.

However, I am also goofy-footed and shoot pool left handed, so maybe I am the exception to whatever conclusions come from this survey :). <--see

I suppose I could have just done a half-swivel in my chair and told you this.

Comment from cheryl jerozal on January 31, 2007 - 7:01pm

my answers: right and right.

i think left smilies are more often from people who strongly value uniqueness, and that is a trait i have sometimes noticed in lefties (to make themselves feel special? :p ).

i think some people would have been left handed if they weren't forced into being righies by our right-hand world, so maybe the lefties who we see as lefties (as opposed to the suppressed lefties) are the ones who are less influenced by outside factors and so are also more likely to express their nontraditional smiley directions (left being the nontraditional direction - since we read/write left-right top-bottom, and eyes are before mouth top-bottom they should be typed that way when going left-right).

however, we (at least those in our age group) were older on average when making smiley "choices" than when making hand "choices" so maybe different factors would influence these decisions.

also i have seen left smileys develop as a reaction to chat programs that by default automatically make right but not left smileys into icons.

can you tell i'm putting off some work i don't really want to do? guess i'll get to it now though.

 

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.

Whoops...so I realized that I haven't posted the notes from our conference call on 12/8/06.  Here it is 1/7/07 and our next conference call is tomorrow.  My apologies for the delay in posting these.  I promise to be more quick in posting tomorrow's notes (if you let me!), do a better job, and be more interesting.

Tim got us started out with a very informative, interesting, and later entertaining, presentation on using on-line collaboration software, specifically Vyew.  He did a better job than I could ever do explaining it in his blog.  If you haven’t checked it out already, you really should…it’s neat stuff! 

Ug. I don't have time to reformat the whole list of notes in Drupal (can't just copy and paste from Word) so here's an attachment with the conference call notes from the Digital Media group last Friday, 10/2.