Author: Ingrid Hu Dahl

JOB POSTING
September 14, 2009
MEMBERSHIP OUTREACH COORDINATOR & YOUTH MEDIA INSTRUCTOR
40 hours/week
Membership Outreach duties include increasing SCAT membership through outreach to schools, clubs, and not-for profit organizations in Somerville. Other duties include maintaining the member database, representing SCAT at community events, intern fairs, and public meetings, and working with members to enhance their participation at SCAT.
Next Generation Producers (NGP) is SCAT’s teen media program. The position will work with SCAT’s Youth Media Coordinator to plan and evaluate NGP curriculum, inspire and teach diverse groups of Somerville teens, supervise assistant instructors, and maintain the NGP web presence.
The person hired will be an experienced media producer and youth educator who is passionate about working with urban teens on documentary, music video, and informational video projects. He or she will be committed to utilizing media for creative expression and community development.
QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate will have a college degree, excellent communications and group facilitation skills, and substantial digital video and studio production experience. He/She will be comfortable working with a diverse membership. Filemaker database and administrative experience are a plus.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
YOUTH MEDIA
• NGP program instruction
• Assist the Coordinator with lesson planning
• Seek community collaborations for participant recruitment
• Coordinate project screenings
• Maintain NGP web page and post completed video projects
• Supervise assistant instructors and peer mentors
• Research grant opportunities to support NGP programs
MEMBERSHIP & DATABASES
• Coordinate membership drives and other outreach activities; represent SCAT at community events.
• Process memberships, maintaining accurate written and computerized records and quarterly statistics.
• Oversee membership renewals and other communications
• Ensure that central mailing lists are maintained
• Coordinate screenings and other member events to promote active participation in SCAT
• Coordinate volunteer opportunities, including the weekly reading of Somerville newspapers for the visually impaired.
• Assist with distribution of press releases, newsletters and flyers
OTHER PRODUCTION/TRAINING
• Produce community oriented programming for cablecast as assigned.
• Assist members with pre-production, production and post-production needs.
ON CALL DUTIES – Two evenings/week, 1 Saturday/month
• Answer phones, serve as receptionist
• Oversee equipment and facilities reservations, pick-ups and returns
• Tell newcomers about SCAT. Signs up new members
• Sign up members for classes
• Make dubs upon request, sells tapes, books, t-shirts, etc.
• Keep the facilities clean and neat
• Answer members’ technical and procedural questions
• Troubleshoot technical problems and routes broken equipment to technicians
GENERAL
• Attend staff meetings and special events
• Other tasks as directed
This position is full time with benefits, including a 401K match after one year employment. Some evening and weekend hours are required. Salary range is $32,000- $35,000, based on experience. Multilingual and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. SCAT is an equal opportunity employer.
To apply, send a cover letter and resume by October 16 to director@access-scat.org or Director, SCAT, 90 Union Square, Somerville, MA 02143. No phone calls please.
For more information:
90 Union Square
Somerville, MA 02143
617.628.8826 (v)
617.628.1811 (f)
www.access-scat.org

Showcase your students’ video production talent as they share how they are making a difference!
National Middle School Association is now accepting video submissions to be played at the general sessions at our 36th Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN, November 5-7, 2009. More than 7,000 educators from around the world will view the winning videos. Chosen videos will also be recognized on the conference website and in the conference program book.
Each entry will receive a participation certificate!
For more information, please visit the NMSA Annual Education Conference website, http://www.nmsa.org/annual/.

Read below to learn more about four new opportunities to fund your youth-led service and learning projects:
Grant: After School Grants! Projects started by young people who are providing after school activities that help youth in their community.
Funder: Do Something and JCPenney.
Eligibility: Young people under age 25.
Deadline: Sept. 15.
Amount: 10 $500 grants and five $1,000 grants.
Contact: www.dosomething.org/grants/afterschool.
Grant: Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge – For youth-led environmental projects.
Funder: Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association.
Eligibility: Students in grades kindergarten to eight.
Deadline: Jan. 31, for elementary schools; March 15, 2010, for middle schools.
Amount: Students compete for more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.
Contact: http://wecanchange.com.
Grant: State Farm Youth Advisory Board – For service-learning projects that address certain issues, including drivers’ safety, access to higher education and environmental responsibility.
Funder: State Farm.
Eligibility: Individuals between the ages of 17 and 20 as of June 30, 2009.
Deadline: Oct. 2.
Amount: From $25,000 to $100,000 each.
Contact: www.statefarmyab.com/apply.php.
Grant: Big Green – For environmentally friendly projects that encourage youths to take care of the environment, be active, live healthier and engage in community service.
Funder: Nickelodeon.
Eligibility: Elementary and middle schools and after-school community-based organizations with 501(c)(3) status serving kids age 5 to 15 years.
Deadline: Dec. 31.
Amount: $2,500 or $5,000 each. The latter amount must be matched one to one.
Contact: www.bghevent.com/grant/index.htm.

Links | Documents | Conferences
Journalism That Matters Mid-Year Gathering
“Create or Die: Forging Communities that Initiate, Innovate, Incubate”
June 3 – 6, 2009 | Detroit, MI
Wayne State University – Journalism Institute for Media Diversity | St. Andrews Hall
How are we going to reshape journalism so that it engages and serves all people and communities? Initiative, innovation, incubation. For three days in Detroit, some 150 or more people will work at the intersections of journalism, technology, community and diversity to answer our convening question — with action. We’ll share innovations and ideas already in process in the new media landscape, inviting entrepreneurs to showcase and further develop their work over a one-year cycle. Bring your project idea to a focused, three-day gathering of results-driven journalists, entrepreneurs, programmers, technologists, bloggers, videographers, funders, venture capitalists, artists and educators to discover, assess, shape and create new enterprises and new approaches to journalism in a digital age. We’ll learn about Detroit’s changing economy as a metaphor for the change and opportunity dogging journalism.
To register: https://www.123signup.com/event?id=mfptz
NAMAC Pre-Conference | National Youth Media Summit Report-Out
August 26, 2009 | 2:30-5:00 p.m. | Boston, MA
Emerson College, Multi-purpose room | 150 Boylston Rd
National Youth Media Summit
August 5-7, 2009 | Lake Forest, IL
McCormick Foundation & The Academy for Educational Development
Tribeca Film Institute: Our City My Story 2009
May 1, 12pm, 2009 | Manhattan
Every year, hundreds of NYC students pick up cameras and tell their stories. Our City, My Story is Tribeca Film Institute’s annual celebration of the incredible vision, excellence and diversity of New York City youth-made media. Students from all five boroughs continually create powerful films–each exploring a unique perspective or take on the city they live in. By presenting the year’s most exciting youth-made media, this special curated program gives a voice to the best of NYC youth work during the Tribeca Film Festival. Large audiences are welcome.
http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/youth/our_city/

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MIT Project New Media Literacies Spring Conference: Learning in a Participatory Culture
May 2, 2009 | Cambridge, MA
At NML’s May 2nd conference, we will share our new web-based learning environment, the Learning Library, and host a series of conversations and workshops about the integration and implementation of the new media literacies across disciplines. Workshops include “The Complexities of Copyright: Shepard Fairey v. the AP,” “Mapping in Participatory Culture: Boundaries,” “Using Wikipedia in the Classroom” and many others. Henry Jenkins’ closing remarks will address the future of NML and participatory democracy.
http://newmedialiteracies.org/

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New York City Grassroots Media Conference: Hope to Action
May 30, 2009 | New York City
Co-Sponsored by the Film and Media Department at Hunter College, CUNY
The enthusiasm that mobilized the public for the historic 2008 election campaign ignited the hopeful hearts of a country at a crossroads. As a powerful spark of grassroots organizing swept through the country, the world witnessed our nation wield unprecedented power by voting for large scale social change. This momentum offers our communities an unprecedented opportunity to act as critical agents in charting the road forward. But even as we celebrate this victory, uncertainty looms ahead. Many of us have lost our jobs, our insurance, and our economic stability; many of our independent media producers and social justice organizations face diminished financial support and increasing barriers. In these challenging times, how can we build a stronger media network that ensures the visibility of our communities’ voices, images and stories?
http://http://nycgrassrootsmedia.org/conference

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Alliance 2009 National Conference: Community Media at the Crossroads
July 15-18 | Portland, OR
View Earlybird Brochure here: http://www.ourchannels.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/acm_intlconf_ebbrochure_final020409.pdf
For more information see: http://www.ourchannels.org/

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The 11th Annual Allied Media Conference
July 16-19, 2009 | Detroit, MI
The 11th annual Allied Media Conference will be held July 16-19, 2009 in the McGregor Conference Center (495 Ferry Mall) on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit.
The Allied Media Conference is the central project of the Allied Media Projects (AMP) network, which emerges out of ten years of organic relationship-building. Since the first conference (then the Midwest Zine Conference) in 1999, people have been compelled by the concept of do-it-yourself media. Later, as the Underground Publishing Conference, the emphasis was on building a movement of alternative media makers. With the shift towards Allied Media, the AMC has attracted more and more people who are interested in using participatory media as a strategy for social justice organizing.
http://www.alliedmediaconference.org/

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2009 NAMAC Conference
August 26-29, 2009 | Boston
NAMAC and the Center For Independent Documentary will co-host the Boston Conference. Further information will appear in NAMAC’s electronic newsletter, website, and special announcements in the coming months, so stay tuned and mark your calendar.
http://www.namac.org/conference
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“Claiming the Digital Divide: Perspectives on Global Youth Media & Social Change”
A panel held at the Academy for Educational Development
Thursday, May 8, 2008 | 100 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor New York City
12:30-2:00 p.m. Light refreshments provided.
Claiming the Digital Divide aims to bring together youth media educators, academics, graduate students, and leading practitioners to discuss global and local youth media as it relates to social change and the field.
On a daily basis, young people enter and engage in dialogue about real issues affecting their lives with other young people using technology. There is energy in such virtual networking and information sharing and when expanded more globally, has the power to affect young people in ways that enable them to connect with international issues and social change. This is provides young people with a chance to connect around the globe—without ever having to head to the airport with an over-priced ticket.
Youth media organizations have created important pathways for young people to create global alliances, share commonalities in a local and global sphere, and gain access to new forms of technology. Such techno-social bridging addresses issues at the heart of youth media: access, global relationships, and young people’s critical role in addressing local and international issues. We invite you to engage with the following panelists:
“Comparing Notes – U.S. and Colombian Youth
and Community Media Practices and Challenges.”
by Diana Coryat, Founding Member of Global Action Project and recent Fulbright Scholar to Colombia.
“Global Youth Dialogue in Virtual and Networked Spaces”
by Shawna Rosenzwieg, On-Line Educator, Global Kids
“Telling Stories of Self: Learning about Race, Gender, Nationality and the Structure of Urban Schooling through Youth Produced Videos”
by Allison Butler, Ph.D. Media Studies & High School Media Teacher.
“Global Youth Journalism in a Web 2.0 World: New Opportunities and New Challenges”
by Anindita Roy, Director of Membership and Youth Media Programs, iEARN.
“Ideas on Inclusion: New and Old Media Tools in Youth Alliance Building”
by Chelsey Hauge, Graduate Student in Media Studies, The New School & Graduate/Media Intern at Youth Media Reporter.
Along with the audience, panelists will explore the various ways young people use media technology to connect locally and globally across traditional lines of difference (race, gender, sexuality, and geographical location).
Claiming the Digital Divide will include topics that range from:
-the ways media is used to create alliances and international youth communities; and/or how youth access and connect to new media devices and spaces (social networking, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc);
-how adults/academics can collaborate with young people in new media environments;
how young people virtually enter and engage in conversation about real issues affecting their lives;
-alternative media communities;
-the intersections of race/gender/nationality in youth media making; and
-international youth media exchange.
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The National Media Education Conference (NMEC): iPods, Blogs and Beyond: Evolving Media Literacy for the 21st Century
June 22-26th, 2007 | St. Louis, Missouri
NMEC 2007 will bring together educators and media literacy practitioners to share their work and learn from each other. Attendees include leaders, teachers, education researchers, public health professionals, youth workers, technology experts, media producers, and others.
www.amlainfo.org/nmec2007

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Pens of Power
August 4th, 2007 | Boston, MA
Connecting young teen writers to consider taking their writing to the next level in journalism and career pathways.
www.teenvoices.org

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NAMAC: The Frontier is Here
October 17-20th, 2007 | Austin, TX
The Frontier is Here will highlight individuals and collaborations that have fostered innovative arts projects (in both traditional and digital environments), the growth of independent film, artistic and community-based applications of emerging technologies, the democratization of creating and connecting to content, the evolution of digital copyright, and the value and importance of community-based media and visual arts centers.
www.namac.org

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Journalism That Matters
August 7-8th, 2007 | Washington, D.C.
The Journalism that Matters Consortium and The Media Giraffe Project invites you to spend a day and a half in both structured and open dialog on these and other questions at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Aug. 7-8, 2007. Join this convening of editors, publishers, writers, researchers, academics, students, entrepreneurs, public advocates, independent and “citizen” journalists intent on defining and launching “The Next Newsroom” using open dialogue, break-out task groups and circle-round sharing of ideas and solutions.
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_561.shtml

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Links | Documents | Conferences
Youth Media Organizations
Video
Educational Video Center – www.evc.org
Global Action Project – www.global-action.org
YO! Youth Outlook – www.youthoutlook.org
Conscious Youth Media Crew – www.consciousyouthmediacrew.org
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) – www.bavc.org
Real Girls Media – www.realgrrls.org
Real Works Teen Filmmaking – www.reelworks.org
Tribeca Film Institute – www.tribecafilminstitute.org
The Ghetto Film School – www.ghettofilm.org
Youth Channel – www.youthchannel.org
Spy Hop – www.spyhop.org
Alaska Teen Media Institute – www.alaskateenmedia.org
Print
Children’s PressLine – www.cpl.org
Girls Write Now – www.girlswritenow.org
Teen Voices – www.teenvoices.com
New American Media – www.newamericamedia.org
L.A. Youth – www.layouth.com
VOX Teen Communications – www.voxrox.org
Youth Communications – www.youthcomm.org
IndyKids – www.indykids.net
Urban Word NYC – www.urbanwordnyc.org
Young D.C. – www.youngdc.org
Music
Bay Unity Music Project (BUMP) – www.youthsounds.org/bump/index.html
Youth Movement Records – www.youthmovementrecords.org
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls – www.williemaerockcamp.org
Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls – www.girlsrockcamp.org
Radio
Radio Rookies – http://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/
Radio Arte – www.radioarte.org
Youth Radio – www.youthradio.org
Kboo Youth Collective – www.kbooyouth.org
Generation PRX – http://generation.prx.org
Blunt Radio – www.bluntradio.org
Youth Voices/Sierra Leone – http://www.voiceofchildrenonline.org/
Intermediaries
Listen Up! – www.listenup.org
National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC) – www.namac.org
Educational Development Center – www.edc.org
Movement Strategies Center – www.movementstrategy.org
What Kids Can Do – www.whatkidscando.org
Funders
Open Society Institute
McCormick Tribune Foundation
Youth Innovation Fund
Knight Foundation
Time Warner

Links | Documents | Conferences
YMR News Literacy Issue (Volume 3: Issue 3)
Download this issue here.
Report: State of the Youth Media Field
This report seeks to provide a recent snapshot of the youth media field and underscore the urgency for youth media organizations to work together, especially at a time when there is a growing need for youth media and the changes it can effect.
It is derived from conversations with youth media practitioners in the United States who attended a National Youth Media Summit in Lake Forest, IL in August 2009. In addition, it builds on many other reports and research, especially a 2004 white paper, “Developing the Youth Media Field: Perspectives from Two Practitioners,” and Open Society Institute documents capturing the state of the youth media field.
Download this document here.
Youth Media Timeline
The Youth Media Timeline compliments the State of the Youth Media Field Report, and reflects the contributions and insights of the youth media practitioners, researchers, funders and producers who attended the 2009 National Youth Media Summit. The timeline was designed by Carly Rounds of the AED Social Change Design team.
You can download the Timeline here.
National Youth Media Summit Official Report Out
The Official Report Out was distributed at the NAMAC Pre-conference event at Emerson College in Boston, MA, on August 26, 2009. This document summarizes the goals and outcomes of the 2009 National Youth Media Summit in Lake Forest, Illinois. Highlights include the full list of issue area strategies developed by the Summit working groups, key take-aways from the summit, and key youth media resources.
Download the document here.
2009 National Youth Media Summit Working Paper
The Working Paper was distributed to all participants of the 2009 National Youth Media Summit that took place in Lake Forest, Illinois, from August 5-7. This paper provides an introduction to the goals of the Summit and a framework for the Summit’s six working group issue areas.
Download the document here.
Youth Media Sector Survey Results
This document summarizes the findings of the 2009 Youth Media Sector Survey. This document was distributed to all participants of the 2009 National Youth Media Summit that took place from August 5-7, 2009, in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Download the survey here.
Youth Media Fellowship
Youth Media Learning Network, Application deadline May 25th, 2007
Download the Fellowship PDF
Investing in Youth Media: A Guide for Grantmakers
Open Society Institute, 2007
Download the Guide for Grantmakers PDF
Youth Media’s Impact on Audience and Channels of Distribution: An Exploratative Study
Open Society Institute, 2004
Download the Explorative Study PDF
Youth Media Evaluation Toolkit
Open Society Institute & Surdna Foundation, 2005
Download the Evaluation Toolkit PDF
Youth Video in Focus
Educational Video Center, 2007
Download information for obtaining copies of Youth Video in Focus PDF

Forty-four leaders in the youth media field, including practitioners, young professionals, youth producers, academics and funders kicked off the 2009 National Youth Media Summit by drawing simple cartoons with big ideas. Groups of participants worked collaboratively to develop 4-panel storyboards illustrating their shared goals for the Summit. The following videos highlight each group’s work. The collective message was clear: youth media practitioners attending the Summit hoped to inspire collaboration and inclusiveness in the field, looked forward to new learning opportunities, and aimed for concrete next steps that would continue to move the field forward in the following weeks and months.
Youth Media Mashup

Building a Sustainable Youth Media Field

Youth Media and Zing! Zap! Pow!

Youth Media as a Beehive

Youth Media and Sea Monsters

Youth Media Before & After

The 2009 National Youth Media Summit was supported by the McCormick Foundation and the Academy for Educational Development. The Summit took place from August 5-7 in Lake Forest, Illinois. Many thanks to all of the participants for their hard work, concentration, and invaluable contributions to the field.

Lessons shared by John Gwinn from Mitzgi Institute at Native American Summer Media Camp.

Letter from the Editor
Welcome to YMR’s Twin Cities Volume 3: Issue 4, where practitioners in the Twin Cities investigate youth media practice and share their insights to the field. With support from the McCormick Foundation, these practitioners and their colleagues met on June 17 at St. Thomas University to discuss the most pressing challenges of their work.
Following this meeting, contributors wrote and revised drafts that were reviewed by a local peer, a member of YMR’s national peer review board, and AED/YMR staff, as a means to engage a youth media rich and yet underrepresented region to the field.
The topics covered in this issue include:
• Supporting young people to responsibly engage with Web 2.0 tools within our programs;
• Supporting young girls to critique media, avoid stereotypes, and act out new identities;
• Reflecting on the Twin Cities Youth Media Network: a model of local, regional youth media network;
• Learning from the tools and practices of journalism to engage young people in story-telling and local political change;
• Learning from artists and media art educators that apply a creative, inventive, and experimental aspect to teen media makers;
• Seeing how the Youth Video Exchange Network functions as a pipeline for the field to increase our efforts and those of the young people we serve.;
• Viewing successful partnerships between high schools, universities, and youth media educators that encourage Somali youth in the Twin Cities—who have been marginalized by news media—to create better news and media vehicles that accurately represent their perspectives and local communities; and
• Supporting the long-term development of girls.
A warm thanks to all thirteen contributors for their dedication and hard work:
• Anthony Brunner, Peter Kirschmann, Mary Pumphrey and Oanh Vu (Americorps members in St. Paul)
• Rebecca Richards Bullen (TVbyGIRLS)
• Joanna Kohler (TCYMN, Kohler Productions)
• Lynda McDonnell (ThreeSixty Journalism)
• Nancy Norwood (Perpich Arts High School)
• Nicola Pine (Saint Paul Neighborhood Network)
• Catherine Squires & Maureen Schriner (University of Minnesota)
• Barbara Wiener (TVbyGIRLS)
• John Gwinn (Mitzgi Institute/Phillips Community TV) * Vodcast (forthcoming)
A special thanks to Kelly Nuxoll, YMR’s writing coach for her stellar coaching and edits as well as to YMR’s Peer Review board for giving helpful feedback to each writer.
Many thanks to Lynda McDonnell, YMR’s peer review board member based in St. Paul at ThreeSixty Journalsim, who was instrumental in organizing and leading the cohort. She explains:
“As financial pressures on the non-profit sector build, local youth media organizations need to find ways to collaborate, share resources and learn. The Twin Cities has a vibrant media, arts and education scene. In Joanna Kohler’s accompanying article in this issue, the Twin Cities Youth Media Network is an example of how practitioners in the local youth media community work to support one another.
Most of the contributors to this issue of YMR are part of TCYMN–professionals from varying backgrounds in the arts, filmmaking, education, cable television, and academia. The accompanying articles in YMR represent how Twin Cities youth media educators operate, our challenges and success stories, and our shared commitment to giving young people skills, power and voice.”
We welcome you to join the conversation for each of these articles using YMR’s “comment” feature. You can also send feedback or comments directly to idahl@aed.org. If you are interested in posting a pod or vodcast response, please contact YMR’s media crew or email idahl@aed.org.
To reserve your copy of YMR’s annual print journal (Volume 3), you can subsrcibe and purchase via credit card or by check.
Warmly,
Ingrid Hu Dahl, Editor, YMR

Youth Media Reporter is managed by the Academy for Educational Development