HOME Inc. One Year In
Much has happened since I started with HOME. It's my second year working with Brighton High School and we're hard at work on the first episode of a show similar in form to English High School's ETV. We recently had a screening of the TV show produced during our summer intensive program called Teen TV over at EHS. …read more
Crossposting from PCM blog: A crash course on citizen journalism
I wrote this for my PCM blog and thought it might be interesting food for thought as a field report. The context for traditional journalism when participatory journalism appeared was one of threat. Ultimately, journalists realized that regardless of how they might disparage it, this participatory movement was here to stay and expand. …read more
Knight Foundation update
Just wanted to let everyone know: our application was reviewed by the Knight Foundation, and now they want a full proposal as follow-up to our letter of inquiry!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYYYYY!!!!!
Portland Speaks: The genesis of the idea
From July onward, I've spent much of my time at Portland Community Media working on a proposal for a project that would allow immigrants and Millennials to create media at low-cost anywhe …read more
A bit of crossposting on digital storytelling
Thought I'd share a more appropriate post that I wrote for the PCM blog a couple of days ago. This is probably what I should be submitting for my field reports... ----- Digital storytelling: The wonders never cease 10 Oct. 2008 …read more
Field report, yay!
Laura has inspired me, and it's a slow day in the office, so it's field report time! …read more
Um...
I'm not really sure what to put up since I feel all written out. I've stopped writing my PCM blog for the last several weeks because I've been so busy, but before that I was posting once a week. I also just finished researching and writing a grant proposal (literature review included) that we're hoping to submit to the Knight Foundation. …read more
Field Report #9: 3 Essential Drupal Modules
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Can you believe I actually signed up for this?
Treat people with "Dignity and Respect" even if you don't agree with them or like them. The golden rule is similar "Treat people the way you want to be treated" Every see the Disney movie Bambi? …read more
the second...
The second month is going swimmingly. The work has really picked up and I'm feeling good in my job. Right now I'm very busy working on re-vamping the website. …read more