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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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video platform video management video solutions video player "My neighborhood, explain it...it's joy, peace, love, and happiness, and the best riding we can do," Richland Farm resident and town horseshoer, Andrew Johnson explains at the end of Birthing a New...
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One of the greatest aspects of teaching is watching your students grow through the process of your class. Some kids who participate in Youth Voices have very little experience with digital media production tools. Some have never held a...
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Mapping locations is large part of the process of developing community stories for Departures.
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After weeks of searching the Richland Farms area and talking to an assortment of residents, the Departures Student Producers met up with Martina Orosco and her family, who run a small farm in their backyard.
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The Environmental Charter High School is a perfect match for our new installment of Departures Richland Farms. The school is all about the green initiative both theoretically and in practice. The school goes way beyond the now common practice...
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Environmental Charter High School is recognized by The White House for empowering its students.
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Student producers working on Departures Venice share hand-drawn visions of their neighborhoods.
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KCET Departures takes a look at Chinatown as a hometown, rather than just another tourist destination.
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Distance Learning has taken on a different connotation here in Venice. The students travel from all over the city via public transportation or school buses, instead of it being a walk down the block.
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See how a classroom activity teaches students to create images that represent their personal interests.
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See how a classroom activity teaches students to create images that represent their personal interests.
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The Departures Educational Program teaches multimedia production tools and helps students to develop their voice.
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In this Departures installment, the team searches for youths with a strong attachment to historic Chinatown.
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In this Departures installment, the team searches for youths with a strong attachment to historic Chinatown.
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The Departures Educational Program teaches multimedia production tools and helps students to develop their voice.
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In this installment of the Guest Room, filmmaker Matthew Williams goes on a search for parenting advice and is reminded that he already has many, if not all, of the answers he needed.
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Heath care cuts in East Los Angeles, one family at a time.
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Heath care cuts in East Los Angeles, one family at a time.
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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,...
