LA River - Education Notes
The Education Notes blog helps to mediate between the plan designed for each installment of Youth Voices and the reality of the classroom. By reflecting on the weekly workshops from the educator's perspective, we are able to write and share about the process of the project, and how it relates to larger social and educational issues.
We invite you to follow Departures Youth Voices as we work closely with students and community members to Re-envision the L.A. River.
Entries
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It is not a typical day for a teenager to wake up knowing that you will be performing live with LA's great Ozomatli. For Erendira, Arthur, Angel, April, and Mike, five students from LA Leadership Academy, this was their reality....
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Our Student Producers have spent the past week traveling throughout the city conducting and filming interviews about the L.A. River, and have certainly met a diverse group of people, each with unique associations to the river. They took vans during...
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One way to really get to know the L.A. River is to spend an afternoon there cleaning it up. This week, the student producers volunteered with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps and went into the Elysian Valley stretch to pick...
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Some our students submit a corrido to LACMA's "The Corridos of L.A." project... and win!
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This week, we began our first day of production by taking the LALA student producers down to the river to meet Shelly Backlar, Executive Director of FoLAR (Friends of the LA River). FoLAR's mission is to protect and restore the...
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During our last production workshop, students explored various elements of sound, and began to develop and produce a Corrido which will be submitted to The Corrido of LA: an event celebrating the centennial of The Mexican Revolution hosted by USC...
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Last week, we presented the video camera to the student producers from LA Leadership Academy. We reviewed some basics about video interviews, and reviewed ideas presented in previous workshops about photography, lighting and composition, and how those concepts would apply...
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One of the main ways Departures represents Los Angeles' neighborhoods is through photography. Capturing people, places, objects, and even specific moments allows space to be reinvented and realized through digital murals. For Youth Voices, students learn basic principles of photography...
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View Departures Youth Voices: LA RIVER in a larger map Last week students created hand-drawn maps of their neighborhoods, highlighting the positive and negative aspects of where they live. They were able to effectively show us the complexities of community...
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The neighborhood we grow up in shapes who we are on many levels. We develop a sense of community with our family and neighbors around us that creates a nurturing environment and a true sense of belonging. For some people,...
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LA Leadership Academy's best and brightest (well, all the students are amazing) have joined up with Youth Voices: LA River this semester. We have a team of very thoughtful and talented students, most of whom have taken on leadership roles...
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Only in a span of one year there has been quite a noticeable shift in digital culture amongst teenagers in Los Angeles. Through my experience of working with high school students, texting has been, and arguably still is the dominant...
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