We need some actors for our short film that we are producing as part of the Connally Digital Media Club Summer Film Camp at Connally. We need two male teens and one female teen. No experience necessary. But you must be committed. We meet M-F from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch is provided. We […]
1st Annual Austin Youth Summit Planning Meeting – Thurs. Nov. 18, 6pm 9442 Capital of Tx Hwy North Plaza 1 Ste 500 ATX, 78759 We are gearing up to begin our 1st Annual Austin Youth Summit! Hi, my name is Janie Lopez, CEO/President of Y.E.L.L. (Youth Engaging in Leadership & Learning), a non-profit organization, that […]
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. […]