[generation prx] Mapping Main Street!
How can I get my students — and my colleagues in other schools, towns, and cities — involved with “Mapping Main Street,” and especially with with “Radio Rookies’s Short Wave program in September/October to document the Main Street in Queens”? I’m an English teacher at East-West School of International Studies, which is a block away from Main Street in Flushing. For several years now, my students have been using and producing blogs, wikis, podcasts, videos, and more. Since 2003, I have worked with teachers throughout the U.S. to build a social network for students, Youth Voices. This work is supported through the New York City Writing Project and the National Writing Project, and many of the teachers whose students use the site are members of their local Writing Project sites. Along with Susan Ettenheim, I also produce and host a weekly webcast on EdTechTalk called Teachers Teaching Teachers, which we edit and archive as a podcast. We use this show to keep connected and to collaborate on curriculum for Youth Voices. Two of the areas that often come up on our show are “placed-based education” and “mapping.” So, of course, I do agree that Mapping Main Street “could be a great tool for teaching in today’s multimedia landscape”! This seems like the right project at the right time in the right place. I can’t wait to connect your project with my students and with my colleagues through our Youth Voices curriculum (still under revision). Also, Susan and I would love to have you and a couple of colleagues (perhaps someone from Radio Rookies?) on our live webcast on Wednesday, August 19 to talk about Mapping Main Street in more detail.What would be our next steps?On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ann Heppermann <annheppermann@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All!Ann Heppermann here, with some very exciting news! Mapping Main Street, the collaborative multimedia project funded by AIR’s MQ2, is getting ready to launch in a few weeks. Right now, you can catch our beta site www.mappingmainstreet.org.One thing that Kara Oehler (MMS co-creator along with Jesse Shapins and James Burns) are developing are more partnerships with youth and educational programs. Right now we’re going to be collaborating with . We’ll be doing audio, video and blog posting. My thought, as an educator myself, was that MMS could be a great tool for teaching in today’s multimedia landscape because MMS can be used to teach audio, video and writing. I’d love to know what your thoughts are. Right now, are primary push for the public is to document through photography/Fickr. We’re hoping to open up to more audio and video submissions after we launch in a few weeks and moving into September. Here is the “participate” page on our beta site http://mappingmainstreet.org/participate/index.htmlI’d love to know if you guys think if we should do more curricula development with MMS; if the site could easily be incorporated into educational programs, or any other ideas/comments suggestions you have. Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!Ann _______________________________________________
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