"building the capacity of public media and technology organizations"
The Youth Channel is online! Or rather, evidence of the Youth Channel’s existence is online. But that’s pretty exciting. It's one of the small but encouraging pieces that seem to be coming together with the Youth Channel.
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
[From the blog of Raymond Varona, August 23, 2006.]
During the summer, most of our population was made up of kids whose primary language wasn't English and who had never used a computer before. As a result, the workshops were more like guided activities instead of real skill-building sessions since I have to literally show them, step-by-step, how to do every action (including opening files and browsing through folders). So I started off with an intro to Photoshop and gradually worked my content down to the point where my last workshop was on how to change fonts in different programs...
Comment from danielle martin on May 14, 2007 - 10:45am
We missed you on our lonely little VISTA planet ;) !
-Danielle