summer

It's recently come to my attention that I have disappeared from the face of the vista planet. So I have a small update. Since March, this is what I have been doing at BNN: - Taking inventory on new equipment - Going and presenting our summer teen program at summer opprotunities fairs - Learning how to use the new equipment - Editing a BNN program called "Early Works" which is a compliation show of footage from recently trained producers …read more

[From the blog of Raymond Varona, August 23, 2006.] Raymond Varona During the summer, most of our population was made up of kids whose primary language wasn't English and who had never used a computer before. As a result, the workshops were more like guided activities instead of real skill-building sessions since I have to literally show them, step-by-step, how to do every action (including opening files and browsing through folders). So I started off with an intro to Photoshop and gradually worked my content down to the point where my last workshop was on how to change fonts in different programs... …read more