Katrina, a student at Crosswalk uploads the day's newscast to the eMerge MySpace while her daughter, Madi, takes a nap.
Students at Crosswalk, often struggling against great odds and balancing school, providing for themselves and others, and teen life, exemplify the creativity and determination needed to succeed in life. On Tuesday and Thursday mornings a group gathers to do the news. They disect local papers and rewrite the stories they think are of most importance to other teens. They also write original news stories and find ways to incorporate their other studies into the newscast.
To see their work go to www.myspace.com/emergenews.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Circle Project Brings a Crowd
A showing of the Circle Project Documentary at the Shop, Friday November 10th drew a crowd of over 50. The project which interviewed local teens about teen pregnancy, culminated in a 15 minute documentary video sharing the perspectives of these teens.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
eMerge News starts again
Tincan's eMerge News program kicked off again this month. Four teams are working on producing video news packages on subjects ranging from "scene kids" to the Roger's High School Construction. Look for their packages in the future on KXMN and our website.
Expanding Your Horizons 2006
Tincan was proud to participate in this year's Expanding Your Horizons conference put on in Spokane by Girl Scouts.
Click on the picture to see a slideshow from the Media Masters workshop.
Click on the picture to see a slideshow from the Media Masters workshop.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Hi from DC!
Hey Stompers, and Adam, and Freddy.... We miss you all! The conference has been cool so far. We saw presentations about other people's summer camps, and learned about things like net neutrality and black fiber (we'll bring back a special prize for whoever can explain what those are to Julia, so look it up!) After the conference sessions yesterday we walked around capitol hill. It was impressive, even though there was a lot of construction and security guards everywhere. We went to Union Station, the Supreme Court, and the Capitol building, where we decided to invent the "official" STOMP pose.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Filmmaking camp starts with a clatter
The upstairs room of the East Central Community Center was filled today with the sounds of clattering chairs "attacking" an actor who desperately dove for cover under the tables.
Photo: Two students employ their variation on the zooming/trucking shot made famous by Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo. They are shooting "Furniture Fury" a scary comedy about disturbingly alive household objects.
Students in TINCAN's filmmaking camp dove into various creative worlds this week, with ideas ranging from a historic theater mystery to a Mad Libs game that comes to life. The theme for this summer's camp was "Think Small, Act Big." With the increasing popularity of portable media content via ipods and cell phones in mind, teens were asked to create a movie for the small screen.
Today's digital filmmakers face a new landscape of distribution possibilities. Instead of needing viewers to come to a central location like a theater to see their films, today's storytellers can send their artwork out to individuals, reaching many more people than possible before. Where there is a way though, there are many people willing to try it, and so the new challenge becomes making a film that will stand out from the vast media clutter of the internet.
So far their solutions to this problem are to find topics that appeal to everyone, and show them in a "cool" way, create original stories, and tell a story with a lesson. Will they succeed? You be the judge. Watch their finished films online at the virtualteencenter.org this Friday!
Photo: Two students employ their variation on the zooming/trucking shot made famous by Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo. They are shooting "Furniture Fury" a scary comedy about disturbingly alive household objects.
Students in TINCAN's filmmaking camp dove into various creative worlds this week, with ideas ranging from a historic theater mystery to a Mad Libs game that comes to life. The theme for this summer's camp was "Think Small, Act Big." With the increasing popularity of portable media content via ipods and cell phones in mind, teens were asked to create a movie for the small screen.
Today's digital filmmakers face a new landscape of distribution possibilities. Instead of needing viewers to come to a central location like a theater to see their films, today's storytellers can send their artwork out to individuals, reaching many more people than possible before. Where there is a way though, there are many people willing to try it, and so the new challenge becomes making a film that will stand out from the vast media clutter of the internet.
So far their solutions to this problem are to find topics that appeal to everyone, and show them in a "cool" way, create original stories, and tell a story with a lesson. Will they succeed? You be the judge. Watch their finished films online at the virtualteencenter.org this Friday!
Friday, June 09, 2006
Odyssey Lobby Day
Here is the link to a shorter version of Odyssey's Lobby Day 06 video. It's a large file (56 megs) so it will take a long time to load if you click on it. To save it to your computer instead, right click on the link, and select "save target as" or "save link as" ...something like that. It should then open up a download box.
Friday, May 12, 2006
"Broadcasting from the heart of Spokane..."
At the start of every Tuesday afternoon the digital photography room at Rogers High School is bustling with activity. Students hurry to write stories and
setup cameras and computers.
Three students prepare the weekly newscast.
What follows is often hard to keep a quiet through. The students participating in this after school project are making news, their way. Each week dedicated teens scour the web for the most interesting news stories, rewrite them, and videotape a newscast for web broadcast. What qualifies as "most interesting" makes for a lively discussion of the current news, which is exactly what the program is designed to encourage. The day's anchor rarely makes it through a story without cracking up, but thats ok, bloopers are included in the cast. This news team thinks that makes it more fun for teens to watch. After the newscast is completed the rest of the afternoon is spent working on individual video projects for their online tv channel. Topics include piercings in the workplace, the Rogers drum corp, and video game reviews. TINCAN's Virtual Teen Center has partnered with KXLY tv to provide opportunities in the near future for teens to learn from professionals and have their voices heard by a larger audience.
To see the Youth channel from Rogers go to the eMerge Channel. Powered by Broadcast Machine.
setup cameras and computers.
Three students prepare the weekly newscast.
What follows is often hard to keep a quiet through. The students participating in this after school project are making news, their way. Each week dedicated teens scour the web for the most interesting news stories, rewrite them, and videotape a newscast for web broadcast. What qualifies as "most interesting" makes for a lively discussion of the current news, which is exactly what the program is designed to encourage. The day's anchor rarely makes it through a story without cracking up, but thats ok, bloopers are included in the cast. This news team thinks that makes it more fun for teens to watch. After the newscast is completed the rest of the afternoon is spent working on individual video projects for their online tv channel. Topics include piercings in the workplace, the Rogers drum corp, and video game reviews. TINCAN's Virtual Teen Center has partnered with KXLY tv to provide opportunities in the near future for teens to learn from professionals and have their voices heard by a larger audience.
To see the Youth channel from Rogers go to the eMerge Channel. Powered by Broadcast Machine.
Monday, May 08, 2006
SUMMER PROGRAMS ARE HERE!
Get them while they last, they're going fast! The VTC has an exciting lineup of FREE programs for teens 13-18 this summer. Registration is required and space is limited. You can check them out and register online here. All our programs integrate technology while encouraging young people to express themselves and get involved in their community.
It's Alllliiivvve
After being down for most of fall and spring... the blog is alive again!
The Virtual Teen Center has also had a makeover. Not only is it looking a lot snazzier, you'll find it easier to navigate and it is quickly being populated by the multimedia creations of teens from all over the valley. Check it out here: Virtualteencenter.org
The Virtual Teen Center has also had a makeover. Not only is it looking a lot snazzier, you'll find it easier to navigate and it is quickly being populated by the multimedia creations of teens from all over the valley. Check it out here: Virtualteencenter.org
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