MAGPI is working with the Multicultural Youth Exchange on a program entitled, Youth and Violence: A Global Perspective. Our hope is to engage young adults (high school age and college age) in a dialogue about risk factors and symptoms of youth violence, and then talk about student-driven solutions through student-created anti-violence media. Students engaged in this workshop will talk with one another during multi-site videoconferences led by MYX facilitators and will then create their own anti-violence digital media projects to share with one another. A videoconference with documentary filmmakers will compliment the student project phase of this three-month endeavor, which concludes with a student digital media virtual festival.
We’re currently looking for national and international partners for this project and would like to cordially invite you and your students to participate. More information about the program can be found below and at: http://www.magpi.net/programs/youthviolence.html. All videoconferences will be held from 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EST. If you are interested in this program, please register through the website.
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me!
Best,
Heather
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Youth and Violence: A Global Perspective
Youth and Violence Discussion (Videoconference)
We’re currently looking for national and international partners for this project and would like to cordially invite you and your students to participate. More information about the program can be found below and at: http://www.magpi.net/programs/youthviolence.html. All videoconferences will be held from 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EST. If you are interested in this program, please register through the website.
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me!
Best,
Heather
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Youth and Violence: A Global Perspective
Youth and Violence Discussion (Videoconference)
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:30 a.m. ET - 10:00 a.m. ET
Exploring Digital Film Making (Videoconference)
Friday, April 4, 2008
8:30 a.m. ET - 10:00 a.m. ET
Youth Violence Awareness Digital Projects
April 4, 2008 – May 8, 2008
Digital Project Virtual Festival (Videoconference)
Friday, May 9, 2008 8:30 a.m. ET - 10:00 a.m. ET
Target Grade Levels: 9-12
Requirements for Participation:
o US Participants (3 spots): Must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities and be on the MAGPI network.
o International Participants (3 spots): Must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities and be connected to their National Research and Education Network
This workshop will culimate in the creation of original youth violence awareness commercials. Therefore students must have access to a digital camera or digital video camera and PowerPoint, iMovie, or other video software.
Requirements for Participation:
o US Participants (3 spots): Must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities and be on the MAGPI network.
o International Participants (3 spots): Must have H.323 videoconferencing capabilities and be connected to their National Research and Education Network
This workshop will culimate in the creation of original youth violence awareness commercials. Therefore students must have access to a digital camera or digital video camera and PowerPoint, iMovie, or other video software.
Description:
Youth violence is a social problem that effects many different countries and cultures around the world. The root causes of youth violence, such as poverty, domestic and sexual abuse, war and other contributing factors like drug use and predjudicial beliefs vary from country to country. However, the resulting symptoms of youth violence are universal - feelings of alienation, frustration, and hopelessness are experienced to some extent by both youth offenders and victims regardless of race, gender, religion, nationality or sexual orientation.
This workshop will identify the risk factors and symptoms of youth violence and then explore, in more depth, various forms that youth violence takes worldwide. Workshop participants will examine how these events effect all young people and ways to break the cycle of violence.
Students and teachers will work together to create a Youth Violence Awareness ad, using various modes of technology. Each classroom will compile original photography and/or video, art, and text to produce a 2-5 minute video or automated Powerpoint commercial, driven by an original message of tolerance and youth violence awareness. The completed student commericals will be featured in a virtual "film festival" and "broadcasted" online to share with an international audience.
Youth violence is a social problem that effects many different countries and cultures around the world. The root causes of youth violence, such as poverty, domestic and sexual abuse, war and other contributing factors like drug use and predjudicial beliefs vary from country to country. However, the resulting symptoms of youth violence are universal - feelings of alienation, frustration, and hopelessness are experienced to some extent by both youth offenders and victims regardless of race, gender, religion, nationality or sexual orientation.
This workshop will identify the risk factors and symptoms of youth violence and then explore, in more depth, various forms that youth violence takes worldwide. Workshop participants will examine how these events effect all young people and ways to break the cycle of violence.
Students and teachers will work together to create a Youth Violence Awareness ad, using various modes of technology. Each classroom will compile original photography and/or video, art, and text to produce a 2-5 minute video or automated Powerpoint commercial, driven by an original message of tolerance and youth violence awareness. The completed student commericals will be featured in a virtual "film festival" and "broadcasted" online to share with an international audience.
Teacher's will be able to download a Teacher's Guide that will provide them with pre- and post-videoconference lesson plans. All preparation activities listed in the guide are required in order for students to take part in this project.
This project is made possible through partnership with MYX: Multicultural Youth Exchange.
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/programs/youthviolence.html
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Heather Weisse
Applications Coordinator
MAGPI
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 233A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Email: hweisse@magpi.net
Phone: 215-573-6417
www.magpi.net
