Sanda Htyte, WNYC Radio Rookies producer will join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers, Wed. Sept. 16, 9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Pacific / 5 PM Alaska
Teachers whose students post at Youth Voices are pretty excited about the “Mapping Main Street” collaborative project.“Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. We invite you to capture the stories and images of the country today. Use our Main Street map to find streets named Main close to your home or along the paths of your own travels. Go out, look around, talk to people, and contribute to this re-mapping of the United States.”Please join us at EdTechTalk this Wednesday, September 16 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific, to learn more about how we are working “Mapping Main Street into our curriculum. Also come to learn more about a wonderful youth development program, Radio Rookies and their Short Wave workshop, where “producers train students the basics of reporting, interviewing, and script writing, and in 1.5 months they produce a final story for the Radio Rookies web site.”Join our conversation with Sanda Htyte.
Sanda Htyte is Radio Rookies Associate Producer. She has been with Radio Rookies since interning at the Elmhurst workshop in summer of 2005. She is also a freelance video producer, director, editor and a CUNY Professor. While interning at Radio Rookies, Sanda was completing her MFA in documentary producing. Having studied both video and radio production at her Alma Mata, Brooklyn College, CUNY, she was asked to teach introduction to radio production as Adjunct Professor in Fall of 2006 as well as Spring 2007.
A couple of years ago Woody Woodgate, up in Alaska helped shape our curriculum toward place-based projects. His work with the students at the Marshall School was an inspiration. He helped amplify the voices of the young people in his classes so that all of us on the Youth Voices network could hear and respond! Some of our other guests will be a colleague of Woody’s from Alaska, Diane (Ginger) Crockett, and Chris Sloan will be joining us from Salt Lake City Utah. (Check out his students’ work on the Mapping Main Street site.) We would love to make similar connections with your students this year. Specifically, in the next couple of months, we are looking at braiding some or our “place-based” photography, stories, VoiceThreads, videos, podcasts… with the NPR-connected project, “Mapping Main Street.” It just seems to us like this could be an excellent opportunity for students to show off their home towns, their cultures, their stories — and to see what is similar and different from other youths’ Main Streets. We would love it if you could spare the time to join us on Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times
