[YL] YouthLearn Newsletter, Issue 130

Tue Apr 8 16:06:15 EDT 2008

YouthLearn
Newsletter, Issue 130 - April 8, 2008

The YouthLearn Newsletter compiles the latest entries to the YouthLearn News Blog. This innovative service to the YouthLearn community highlights youth, education, and technology news, tools, and resources. We hope this assists you in your important work. Please feel free to share this resource with friends and colleagues, and visit the News Blog often! http://news.youthlearn.org <http://news.youthlearn.org/> 

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News 

Free text reader to help print-disabled students
"Students with print or reading disabilities will have a new resource to help them access thousands of books, magazines, and other texts electronically: Bookshare, a nonprofit online community, and Don Johnston Incorporated, a supplemental instruction provider, recently announced a partnership that will give print-disabled students a free text reader to access electronic books from the Bookshare.org library."
URL: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=53411;_hbguid=046a187d-19a3-4d68-a839-01a331ffac75 <http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=53411;_hbguid=046a187d-19a3-4d68-a839-01a331ffac75> 

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Funding 

Entertainment Software Association Foundation Funding
"Entertainment Software Association Foundation offers funding for Youth Programs (DEADLINE: April 15, 2008 ). Grants will be awarded to nonprofit organizations providing programs in personal development, health awareness, risk behavior prevention, education, and media arts to youth between the ages of 7 and 18. The foundation seeks to harness the collective power of the interactive entertainment industry to create positive social impact in America's communities. The interactive entertainment industry supports geographically diverse projects and programs that benefit American youth of all races and denominations and both genders."
URL: http://www.theesa.com/foundation/grant.php <http://www.theesa.com/foundation/grant.php> 
Referred by: Youth Media Reporter

Staples Foundation Education Programs for Disadvantaged Youth
"This fund supports programs that provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. Deadline: June 16."
URL: http://www.staplesfoundation.org/ <http://www.staplesfoundation.org/> 
Referred by: Connect for Kids

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Resources 

Teaching with Passion: Advice for Young Educators
"For more than forty years, Jonathan Kozol has taught in, worked with, and written about America's inner city public schools. His straight talk in best-selling books such as Savage Inequalities and Amazing Grace has made him a hero of many teachers, and he fiercely opposes government policies he believes perpetuate educational inequities.... He also seized the opportunity to opine on what he considers two of the biggest problems facing public schools today: staggering attrition rates among new teachers and the rigid instructional methods many schools employ because of federal No Child Left Behind legislation. Passionate, committed educators can attack inequity, he said, and he offered his audience of nearly 1,100 teachers, mentors, school leaders, and researchers advice for building relationships, fostering creativity, and standing up for their students."
URL: http://www.edutopia.org/jonathan-kozol-advice-teachers <http://www.edutopia.org/jonathan-kozol-advice-teachers> 

Even Without Technology Youth Media Thrives
"In the growing pantheon of youth media scholarship fine distinctions exist, but at its core, youth media is a process of engaging young people in an artistic enterprise that is based in young people's experience and exploration of the world. Young people endeavor to carve a space for real participation in the public sphere, and forge more balanced meaningful relationships with the larger community-skills necessary for successful participation in civil society. No young person exists in isolation. Regardless of the means of transmission, youth media practitioners create an infrastructure of support, bringing layered expertise and insight to the practice of educating youth media producers."
URL: http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2008/02/even_without_technology_youth.html <http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2008/02/even_without_technology_youth.html> 

Afterschools Investments Project Offers New Resources
"Afterschool Investments, a technical assistance provider for Child Care and Development Fund grantees, among other state and local leaders, has announced four new resources to assist in afterschool programming development. In support of these efforts, Afterschool Investments released the following reports: 'Using Quality Rating Systems to Promote Quality in Afterschool Programs'; 'School-Age Children in Regulated Family Child Care Settings'; 'Building Professional Development Systems for the Afterschool Field'; and 'State Child Care Subsidy Administration Policies for School-Age Children.'"
URL: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/ <http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/> 
Referred by: Community Schools

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Activities 

Using Storyboards: A YouthLearn Guide to Thinking through Visual Storytelling
A storyboard is simply a planning device used to visually "sketch out" the actions of a story that will be told in a visual medium like animation, multimedia, a Web page or video. Some storyboards are very simple; for example, a simple animation project, such as a flip book of a dot moving across a page, can actually be the storyboard for later creating an animated GIF on the computer. On the other extreme, storyboards for a video need to include not just the action of characters in a scene but placement of lights and camera as well. Long before you get to those sophisticated storyboards, however, you should introduce the basic storytelling concept with an activity like this one.
URL: http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/language/storyboard.asp <http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/language/storyboard.asp> 

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