From zero to operational. That is what Robb did for our teaching staff when he came to teach us basic video journalism. Our teachers are now able to create videos for their classrooms and our school blog that show the Inquiry Based strategies and lessons we have implemented. This has resulted in higher student engagement and enthusiasm for visual storytelling that really has to be seen to believe. We are now taking what we learned and teaching 5th grade students in our new Video Journalism club how to tell stories with web video. I highly recommend Robb to any organization that wants to add these new media skills to their toolbox.
Anthony Gettig
Technologist
Edison Environmental Science Academy
Kalamazoo Public Schools
http://edisonmagnet.org/blog
Hayam, a photographer for the Middle East News Agency talks about the impact of multimedia training for Egyptian journalists.
Cairo: This week I am producing a new documentary film about the Egypt Media Development Program (A USAID funded initiative) with budding MDP filmmakers Ahmed and Amr. These guys are great. Ahmed and I have made two Arabic-language film documentaries in the last year and we have time to make this new one really high quality.
In the first week we have made a half dozen interviews with journalists that MDP has trained and we filmed on locations all around Cairo. We have visited the offices of the news training centers for journalists the program has established at MENA, Al Ahram Al Akbar, Cairo University and other news organizations. We have done interviews in the streets and at sunrise this morning we filmed some new footage from the Pyramids. We were buzzed by huge military aircraft flying at low altitude. Have to wait for the film to be ingested to see how it came out but here re a few snaps from my trusty LX-2 which has joined me on my adventures the last four years.
I am starting week two of my three-month training tour and thought I would share what the Toronto Star’sRoger Gillespie and learned about the Toronto Camp VJ Workshop .
It is simply this, it is you guys who spread the word and make the success.
