"building the capacity of public media and technology organizations"
whoooo hoo. Just got done teaching my digital storytelling class. At Media Bridges, we have a series of youth classes lasting a week or two. Mine lasted one week, 3 hours a day. And the ages were 9 - 15. You would think that the 15 year old would have been bothered by the younger ones, but they all got along really well.
Well it's day two and I thought I'd better get around to doing a blog before Danielle comes to Grand Rapids to kick my butt. :D
I've basically been on the job for two weeks already. The Grand Rapids Community Media Center hired me as a contract worker for two weeks so I could get a head start. Get some training in before the school year started so I wouldn't be jumping in cold with students.
I'm working mostly with an organization within the GRCMC called MoLLIE, short for Mobile Learning Lab for Information Education. One of the things we do is go into a few of the Grand Rapids Public Schools and teach students to make short videos based on something they are learning in class. Today we were at a special school here called Zoo School. It's for bright 6th graders and is a small school run at the John Ball Park Zoo.
Comment from Rebecca White on September 13, 2006 - 12:52pm
Good to hear your "first" few days are going well!
Comment from danielle martin on July 11, 2007 - 5:49pm
You ROCK! Sounds awesome and thanks for all the juicy details in your post. You could publish the stories on StoriesForChange.net and Jess & I would be psyched! And if you add it as an Event, you can see all the stories together...see the workshop I just did in Roxbury with youth http://storiesforchange.net/event/teen_digital_storymapping_bootcamp
I'm of the tack that any story kid take this gumption to finish is GREAT!
For Ad Attack, see if you can get your hands on MNN's media literacy curriculum...it's awesome. I have a paper one I could send you if you can't get it online.
-Danielle