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In Education there is always a plan and outcome goal for every lesson. The Youth Voices Project begins with this framework, but it is meant to adapt and change. With each project, we work with students from different areas of the city with different backgrounds. We work in different facilities with varying resources. Education Notes helps to mediate between plan and reality by looking at the weekly workshops from the educator's perspective, and how the process of developing the project relates to larger social and educational issues.
We invite you to take a look at what's been going on inside and outside the walls of the Chinatown Service Center.
We invite you to take a look at what's been going on inside and outside the walls of the Chinatown Service Center.
Meet the Youth Voices Student Producers from Chinatown through their "Meet Me" PowerPoint presentations that they created. It's a straightforward but powerful process where the students downloaded a template from the Departures Chinatown wiki, and then add found or personal images that represent several aspects of their interests and personality. It's a great way for students to present themselves and their interests, learn their strengths and weaknesses as media producers, and get a glimpse of the technological tools they'll be using throughout the Departures project.
A major part of this production involves students using visuals to tell the story of their relationship to their neighborhood, so what better way to begin than with an exploration of the self? So, come and meet our student producers from the
Chinatown Service Center's Youth Council.
For the Neighborhood and Me project, students produced digital interactive panoramas (aka murals). Through the development of this project, students learned to use design principals and graphic elements, such as repetition, hierarchy, texture, color, and transition. The student murals curated an experience of walking the paths of the places on the map, and the textures of the experience at a street level. Students were challenged to see what kind of juxtapositions or narratives they can create through these “linearesque” audio/visual presentations. They were taught to use Vuvox, an online application that allows you to cut and collage images, embed video and audio, and create stand-alone multimedia panoramic experiences. They were encouraged to apply the graphic principles learned and perhaps integrate some of the styles of collage artists and designers.
Check out the murals by clicking on the entries below.
Chinatown Youth Voices Student Producers consisted of 12 high school students from the Chinatown Service Center's Youth Council. At first, each student worked individually, having the opportunity to brainstorm and develop a personal map and hotspots for their community. Then they worked in groups to acquire various multimedia production skills in photography, cinematography, sound recording and design, video editing, and interactive design. Through several activities, they were able to then create and post their work on their blog sites.
Student Highlights in Chinatown
By Vicki Lau I am Vicki Lau, a 15 year old student at Chatsworth High School living in the Chinatown area. I have been living near Solano Canyon very close to Chinatown since I was born. The following presentation is...
By Ivan Wu My dad works until 2 am so he's usually too tired when he's at home to want to do an interview. My mom is a seamstress and she works for about 12 hours, when she gets home...
KCET Departures takes a look at Chinatown as a hometown, rather than just another tourist destination.
See how a classroom activity teaches students to create images that represent their personal interests.
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Hill Street Cafe & Cigar
By Mabel Chan Hill Street Cafe is a cafe in a plaza on Hill Street. It initially opened for patrons of Best Western Inn, but it attracts many people young and old. This is the only cafe in Chinatown that...
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