An Excruciatingly Hip Entry

Not too much to report today. Dave and I met briefly at Corps Day to touch base about the CTEP Profile video project. We also talked about the brief update that I would present to the rest of our Corps later in the day.

Our main projects currently are
1. The CTEP Profile video project
2. Committee Corps Day presentation on Youth Media

A side project that some Corps members have expressed interest in is the media committee providing assistance in learning to upload videos to the web and then embedding them on blogs or websites. So, if any other committees or Corps members are interested in learning this process, send Kevin or me and e-mail and we can provide some tips.

That’s all for now. Hopefully the next update will be a bit more exciting.

98.6

I'm testing YouTube as an alternative for uploading videos to the web. So far an advantage is that videos don't have to be "verified" (you don't have to wait a few hours to a few days) for them to be live on the internet. I uploaded a video in minutes.

My cousins and I made this particular video during a heatwave in Boston, August 2001.

Breaking all the rulez

During committee time at our Corps Day today, Riley and I decided to break the rules in the Skyline Computer Lab. Shot and edited in under 30 minutes, this excercise in digital storytelling demonstrates how quickly and easily one can create media and distribute it on the web.

May 3 Committee Meeting

At our committee meeting yesterday, we discussed two agenda items:
1. The CTEP profile video, and
2. Our Corps Day presentation about youth media.

We are still trying to arrange interview times/days for the CTEP profile video. It’s been a little difficult to coordinate everyone’s schedules. Following our meeting, I emailed the draft of our current interview questions to the other committee members. The questions will undergo revisions, and we’ll hopefully be able to begin conducting interviews by the end of this week or early next week.

We watched samples of youth media that we plan to incorporate into our presentation. We also talked a bit about how the presentation might unfold and brainstormed a few questions to ask youth involved in creating media and questions to ask adults who work with the youth who create media. We’re thinking that a portion of our presentation will include some of the filmed responses to these questions.

A final note: As you can see, we’ve begun using Google Video fairly regularly to upload videos to the web. It works great, but the length of time between the video being uploaded and going live can be anywhere from a few hours to a few days. We might be investigating alternatives for uploading videos to the web so our video posts may be more frequent.

Bearded Revenge

Here's the video I made during the digital storytelling workshop that Rox and Gina put on. They did an awesome job "teaching the teachers," by the way.