[YL] YouthLearn Newsletter, Issue 130

Wed Apr 9 14:35:18 EDT 2008

Hi, 

Here’s an article I wrote that may be of interest to readers of the
newsletter: Out of the Screening Room and into the Streets 

It takes more than just showing up with a film and doing a Q&A afterwards if
you want to make a deep impact with viewers—especially the local community.
Young people need to go beyond simply making and screening a film. They need
to learn how to engage an audience, present community issues for social
change, and partner with affiliated organizations. They must effectively use
their products as resources for education and action—an approach that
fosters both the long-term growth of young producers and the youth media
field itself. 

URL:
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2007/10/out_of_the_screening_room_and.html

Please let me know if you have further questions. Thanks! 

Best regards, 

Irene Villaseñor, Youth Views Manager

American Documentary, Inc. | P.O.V.

32 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10004

(212) 989-8121, extension 319, (212) 989-8230-fax

* * *

AmDoc has a lot going on! Learn more about P.O.V.’s project for young people
at http://www.myspace.com/youthviews. Are you looking for films to use in
community and educational settings? Sign-up on the community events planner:
http://www.amdoc.org/outreach/events/index.php. Want to purchase P.O.V.
films for your own use? Visit http://www.amdoc.org/store. Find out about all
things doc-related at the P.O.V. Blog: http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/. Prefer
email updates? Sign up for P.O.V.’s Newsletter at
http://www.pbs.org/pov/utils/newsletter/newsletter.html. Want to celebrate
P.O.V.'s 20th Anniversary? Online donations to support independent
documentary storytelling can be made at http://amdoc.org/donate.

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From: youthlearn-bounces at milhouse.edc.org
[mailto:youthlearn-bounces at milhouse.edc.org] On Behalf Of Wendy Rivenburgh
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:06 PM
To: youthlearn at milhouse.edc.org
Subject: [YL] YouthLearn Newsletter, Issue 130

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
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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.htm
l>
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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