Speaking of Woices, here’s a snippet from the latest NAMAC newsletter about Voices: VOICES offers young people in Tucson [Arizona] a safe space, positive relationships, and the skills training to document real-life stories. Youth who are creative, resilient, educated, and active citizens are youth who benefit themselves, their families, and our community now and in […]
Youth culture
At Digital Hollywood: the evolving media ecosystem
Spoke Monday at Digital Hollywood at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, then returned late last night, so missing the next three days of panels and speeches. (Try typing Loews into your iPhone, and it keeps miscorrecting it to Loess. Weird bug.) The topic of our 80-minute panel was "Personalized Media Platforms – Widgets, User […]
Social causes on campus
Aden Van Noppen of Brown University discusses an effort, supported by the Acumen Fund, to involve college students in social causes. Interview conducted at the Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco. Watch video in .flv Flash on Ourmedia Watch video in .flv Flash on Viddler (embedded above)
An experiment in youth engagement
An experiment in youth engagement from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the MIT Media Lab recently I interviewed Karen A. Brennan of the wonderfully named Lifelong Kindergarten program (description of programs here) about an MIT project called Scratch. In this 3-minute video she tells how youth personal engagement translates into adult civic engagement, bringing […]
Fussiness in the California school system
Had my first meeting with Bobby’s third-grade teacher Friday. He’s doing well. But I noticed that on one of his tests, he was marked wrong for not using a serial comma. A serial comma, for those who don’t know, is the comma before the final "and" in a phrase such as "ham, chips, and eggs." […]