December 2008 Archives

Not Too Young to Watch, Not Too Young to Make
By: Kristin Brenneman Eno
Published: December 11, 2008
Engaging children with video and play develops their ability to generate, critique and participate in media as young adults.

Building the Local Youth Media Community
By: Gin Ferrara
Published: December 11, 2008
Branching out to the broader, local community requires new strategies, risk-taking and building partnerships outside the youth media field.

Best Practices Help Youth Media Educators Exercise the Right to Fair Use
By: Renee Hobbs
Published: December 11, 2008
After more than a year of researching best practices in fair use for media literacy educators, new resources and tools to better understand copyright law enable youth media educators to employ copyrighted materials under the doctrine of fair use.

We Welcome You to Invite Us to the Field
By: Maliha Khan and Yesenia Reinoso
Published: December 11, 2008
Youth media organizations may be overlooking the power and potential of the college student mentor/volunteer in the field.

Creating Rooms of Our Own: Women Writers at Work at Girls Write Now
By: Maggie Pouncey
Published: December 11, 2008
Youth media programs are uniquely situated to offer girls the opportunity to thrive as creative and flexible thinkers, and in so doing train them to be our future leaders.

Like a Bell that Calls: Participatory Youth Radio in Ethiopia
By: jesikah maria ross and Esther Obdam
Published: December 11, 2008
It is vital in countries like Ethiopia for young people to develop relationships with media gatekeepers in order to gain greater access to larger platforms.

Tribeca Film Institute Youth Programs: Open Positions
By: Ingrid Hu Dahl
Published: December 4, 2008
Tribeca Film Institute Youth Programs is hiring five seasonal support staff and media folk from January to May 2009. Please email youth@tribecafilminstitute.org for more information and details. Tribeca Teaches Program Coordinator Program Assistant Tribeca Film Fellows Program Coordinator Program Assistant...