Digital Underground Storytelling For Youth - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Aug 08
  

  Anne Bubnic

  Student -created videos telling powerful stories!! D.U.S.T.Y. is an afterschool program for middle and high school students in Oakland, CA. DUSTY students work on computers to create their own Digital Stories, as well at to generate rap and hip hop "beats and rhymes." Throughout the creative process, students learn to master programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, iMovie, and Fruity Loops with the help of skilled instructors. At the end of each semester, the students' creative masterpieces, including digital stories, raps, beats, and performances are showcased in some sort of final event at The Parkway Theatre, The Metro, and other local venues. <br><br>

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• 28 Jun 08
  

  et musiced

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• 13 Apr 08
  

  slathem

  good example of digital storytelling and original music scores created by author

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  Anne Bubnic on 2008-08-06
  In this information technology age, children and youth in West and East Oakland face the additional disadvantage of a digital divide, which separates ethnicities, socio-economic classes, genders, and ages. Youth from low-income communities rarely have access to cutting edge communication technologies or, just as importantly, to empowering uses of them. A comparison between the number of computers per Oakland school with the schools’ statewide academic performance ranking, or API, revealed that some schools with high numbers of computers have very low API’s. This discrepancy suggests that simply having technology is not enough; rather, to improve student academic outcomes, technology must be meaningfully used.

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