Over the last 2 years, I have driven across Texas offering diverse students free tours of media and communications companies is 4 cities – Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. I launched a web site called Media Xperiments, based on the social networking platform called Ning. Students could sign up at no charge for tours […]
The Urban Media Festival: Monetizing Your Media is going on this Labor Day Weekend Sept. 3 – 5 at the Carver Library in Austin, TX. It starts off Friday night with a reception and Director’s Screening’s featuring legendary filmmaker Jamaa Fananka several other top directors. Then Saturday and Sunday there will be a series of […]
Today we took the kids down to The A.C.E.S. (Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences) building at the University of Texas. Once there, the students were greeted by, long time friend of the Media Communication Council, Brad Armosky. Brad Armosky is TACC’s (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Education and Outreach Coordinator, so obviously he was perfect for […]
Today we took the students to see Austin Community College’s Game Development Institute. Apparently a couple of them thought we were just going to play video games the whole time. But alas, we were at a school, not an arcade. The main focus of the day was explaining video game development to the students. First […]
So, today was the first day of our It Could Be U Camp. I wouldn’t say it went as well as it could have, but it could have gone a lot worse. All in all, I think we all conducted ourselves pretty well, especially if you consider that we of the Media Proteges have never […]
1. What were your favorite assignments of the year? Why were they your favorite? 2. What is your own description of this class? How do you classify B.I.M.M? 3. What are some of the skills that you have learned from this class? How will it help you in life? 4. Did you have any dislikes […]
Thanks to all of the businesses that hosted over 60 Austin area students and young professionals across the city the week of April 19th.
Use this Scoring Guide to help you critique each other’s work with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. Notice that the lower part of the wheel represents higher level thinking skills. So, when you write a poem, blog, song or make a video, those all are examples of higher level thinking skills. […]
mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA”>If you are a college student or getting ready to become one, you probably already know how useful additional money can be. (If clicking on the link doesn’t work, then type in the Web site address manually.) 1) BELL LABS FELLOWSHIPS FOR UNDER REPRESENTED MINORITIES http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/CRFP/info.html 2) Student Inventors Scholarships http://www.invent.org/collegiate/ 3) […]
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the businesses and companies that are involved with Media Xperiments, and the Show Your Reel Contest. Your involvement highly motivates, inspires, and promotes positive change in our students. I have passionately dedicated the last eleven years of my life to teaching. Throughout my teaching career […]